ating development, alleviating poverty, reducing severe imbalances, pro- moting South-South cooperation, and revi- talizing globalization. Xi called the Belt and Road Initiative “the project of the century”. July: China celebrated the 20th anniver- sary of Hong Kong's return to the mother- land. It was a time of reflection f

surprised the rest of the world when he announced the Belt and Road Initiative. As often happens in China, the idea is the resul

n for China's economic concerns. President Xi has the Belt and Road Initiative, this far reaching strategy to build infrastructu