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Mapping BRI Infrastructure

by Cobus van Staden

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a notoriously hazy concept, and almost a decade after its launch, it can still be difficult to get one’s head around. 

The Xavier Collaborative Research Center for Memory and Identity at the University of Saint Joseph in Macau recently took on this challenge and created a map that represents BRI infrastructure visually. 

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