The Covid-19 pandemic is slowing down the “new silk roads”, this vast initiative launched in 2013 by Xi Jinping which was supposed to make China shine around the world. From the economic corridor linking Pakistan to China to the special economic zone at Sihanoukville in Cambodia, passing through a whole series of major works in Burma, Algeria or Kenya, many projects launched under the initiative of the BRI (according to the official acronym for the “Belt and Road Initiative” (the Belt and Road Initiative) have been frozen. Some for an indefinite period, others forever.
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According to Chinese officials themselves, in mid-June, 20% of the "new silk roads" projects were " very affected " by the epidemic, 30 to 40% " a little ", and 40% "slightly " . “ The initiative was shaken up. Projects are no longer supplied with raw materials, borders have closed and labor has been stranded. The disease has
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