{"id":439302,"date":"2021-09-30T10:39:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=439302"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T06:25:03","slug":"chinas-belt-and-road-plans-losing-momentum-as-opposition-debt-mount-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-belt-and-road-plans-losing-momentum-as-opposition-debt-mount-study\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Belt and Road plans losing momentum as opposition, debt mount: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is in danger of losing momentum as opposition in targeted countries rises and debts mount, paving the way for rival schemes to squeeze Beijing out, a new study showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping launched BRI in 2013 to use China\u2019s strengths in financing and infrastructure construction to \u201cbuild a broad community of shared interests\u201d throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>But Xi\u2019s \u201cproject of the century\u201d is now facing major challenges and significant backlashes abroad, according to a study by AidData, a research lab at the College of William and Mary in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is in danger of losing momentum as opposition in targeted countries rises and debts mount, paving the way for rival schemes to squeeze Beijing out, a new study showed on Wednesday. President Xi Jinping launched BRI in 2013 to use China\u2019s strengths in financing and infrastructure construction to \u201cbuild a broad community of shared interests\u201d throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. But Xi\u2019s \u201cproject of the century\u201d is now facing major challenges and significant backlashes abroad, according to a study by AidData, a research lab at the College of William and Mary in [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439302","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=439302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}