BRI Trivia
The year Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative.
When is 2013?
The term for loans with high interest rates and a short repayment period, given to BRI participant nations by China.
What is a debt trap?
The minority Turkic ethnic group against whom China has committed human rights violations.
Who are the Uighurs?
The historical network of trade routes from which the Belt and Road Initiative draws inspiration.
The Silk Road.
One potential economic benefit of the Belt and Road Initiative.
What is infrastructure, jobs, electricity, or renewable energy?
Potential hot-spot for Russian militarization as a result of the BRI.
What is the Polar Silk Road?
The meaning of the "Belt" in the Belt and Road Initiative.
What are the the overland routes for road and rail transportation, called "The Silk Road Economic Belt?"
The area of trade where Europe has a comparative advantage over China
What are services?
One example of a technology China is exporting through the BRI that could be used for surveillance.
Facial recognition, internet censorship technologies, 5G internet,
The size of the yearly funding gap for Chinese banks financing the BRI.
What is $500 billion per year?
One potential economic harm of debt.
What is austerity, default, or crowd-out?
One way the EU could leverage its participation in the BRI to secure reforms.
What is acting as a bloc, investment leverage, or project leverage?
The planned uses of the Polar Silk Road.
What are oil exploration and drilling?
One of the Chinese sources of funding for the BRI.
What is the China Development Bank, Export-Import Bank (EXIM), Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), or Silk Road Fund?
The BRI has the potential to increase this type of Chinese influence, at the expense of the United States
What is hegemony?