{"id":310578,"date":"2020-01-16T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310578"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:54:18","slug":"chinas-belt-and-road-projects-lack-transparency-say-european-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-belt-and-road-projects-lack-transparency-say-european-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Belt and Road projects lack transparency, say European firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of information and transparency are top barriers for European companies seeking involvement in China&#8217;s Belt and Road Initiative, according to a survey published Thursday by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. <\/p>\n<p>Only 20 out of 132 firms polled said they have bid for projects related to the BRI, a massive global network of ports, railways, roads and industrial parks spanning Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. <\/p>\n<p>The BRI &#8212; Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s signature foreign policy initiative &#8212; has also faced criticism for swaddling poor nations with crippling debt and for being too opaque. <\/p>\n<p>A lack of information on deals and &#8220;non-transparent&#8221; procurement systems were the biggest barriers identified by European firms in the survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of information and transparency are top barriers for European companies seeking involvement in China&#8217;s Belt and Road Initiative, according to a survey published Thursday by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. Only 20 out of 132 firms polled said they have bid for projects related to the BRI, a massive global network of ports, railways, roads and industrial parks spanning Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The BRI &#8212; Chinese President Xi Jinping&#8217;s signature foreign policy initiative &#8212; has also faced criticism for swaddling poor nations with crippling debt and for being too opaque. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}