In September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping pronounced China’s international economic cooperation vision, as incarnated in what was later termed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in Kazakhstan. Six years on, how is the BRI being perceived in BRI partner countries?

Our research team at Nanyang Technological University led by Associate Professors Pradumna B. Rana and Chia Wai-Mun, and funded by Singapore’s Ministry of Education, conducted an online perception survey among Asian opinion leaders on various aspects of the BRI earlier this year.

…Ji Xianbai is a research fellow with the International Political Economy Program of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The article reflects the author’s opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.