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The IFF China Report 2018

Insight and opinion from China’s top leaders, policymakers and financiers

The Belt and Road Initiative

China’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) now includes 71 countries, with trillions of dollars of investment allocated. Leading Chinese and international policymakers explain how BRI efforts are progressing. This section includes an inaugural survey of central banks in jurisdictions participating in the BRI – with 92% of respondents saying they expect the BRI to increase their GDP in the next five years.

Five risks of the BRI

Han Seung-soo, co-chair of the IFF and former prime minister of the Republic of Korea, frames five of the major risks facing the Belt and Road Initiative, and discusses what should be done to negate them and the potential consequences of failing to do so

Unlocking BRI success through the legal keyhole

Translating the vision of the Belt and Road Initiative into reality requires recalibration of the international legal system, believes Zhou Hanmin, vice-chairman of the Municipal Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Committee of Shanghai,…

China – Global governance without hegemony

As US power fades, says Pang Zhongying, IFF Academic Committee member, and dean of the Advanced Institute of Marine Development Studies, Ocean University of China, China can create a new non‑hegemonic model of global economic governance based on dialogue…

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