Big Read - China pulls back from the world: Rethinking Xi s project of the century
12 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, 2018. Photo / AP
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, 2018. Photo / AP
Financial Times
By: James Kynge in Hong Kong and Jonathan Wheatley in London It has not taken long for the wheels to come off the Belt and Road Initiative. As recently as May 2017, China s leader Xi Jinping stood in Beijing before a hall of nearly 30 heads