{"id":359947,"date":"2020-06-29T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359947"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:15:08","slug":"majority-of-chinas-bri-projects-adversely-affected-by-covid-19-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/majority-of-chinas-bri-projects-adversely-affected-by-covid-19-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of China&#8217;s BRI projects adversely affected by Covid-19: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Majority of the projects under China&#8217;s ambitious multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are either adversely or partially affected by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Chinese official. <\/p>\n<p>About a fifth of the projects under the BRI, which aims to boost trade and investment across Asia, Africa, and Europe to further China&#8217;s global influence, had been &#8220;seriously affected&#8221; by the pandemic, according to Wang Xiaolong, director-general of the foreign ministry&#8217;s international economic affairs department. <\/p>\n<p>About 40 per cent of the projects were &#8220;adversely affected&#8221;, and a further 30-40 per cent were &#8220;somewhat affected&#8221;, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted Wang as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority of the projects under China&#8217;s ambitious multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are either adversely or partially affected by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Chinese official. About a fifth of the projects under the BRI, which aims to boost trade and investment across Asia, Africa, and Europe to further China&#8217;s global influence, had been &#8220;seriously affected&#8221; by the pandemic, according to Wang Xiaolong, director-general of the foreign ministry&#8217;s international economic affairs department. About 40 per cent of the projects were &#8220;adversely affected&#8221;, and a further 30-40 per cent were &#8220;somewhat affected&#8221;, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359947","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=359947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}