A Thousand Readers, A Thousand Hamlets: A Chinese Scholar's Response to the Ten Hot Issues about the Belt & Road Initiative

Abstract

Since 2013, The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a pressing concern for the international community. The BRI is an international cooperation initiative put forward by China in response to major changes and new challenges unique to the present. There have been multiple voices doubting, misunderstanding, and criticizing the initiative from home and abroad. In response to this, Professor Wang Yiwei, who comes from the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies and National Academy of Development and Strategy at the Renmin University of China, has systematically responded to various questions from the Chinese people, Western countries, and countries along the BRI in his book, Response: Ten Voices on the "Belt and Road Initiative" (2020). The book examines what the initiative is, its purpose, and how to promote it.