10 Years and a Trillion Dollars Later, the BRI Turns Green

File image of a Chinese-financed and built solar power plant in the Central African Republic that is part of Beijing's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative. Image via Xinhua.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) crossed a number of critical milestones in the first half of the year that seem to demonstrate President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy initiative is still going strong despite concerns over debt sustainability.

102 deals worth $43 billion dollars were executed in the January-June period, enough to help put cumulative BRI spending over the past decade above the trillion mark, according to a new report by the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University in Shanghai.

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