The Silk Road Economic Belt and 21 st Maritime Silk Road – also called One Belt One Road Initiative is China’s foreign and economic policies that have been initiated by President Xi Jinping. It aims to strengthen China’s domestic and foreign policies through a vast infrastructure program throughout China’s neighboring regions. On 2017, China host the Belt and Road Forum for international cooperation in Beijing. It lifted the Belt and Road project into a higher level of cooperation. One Belt, One Road Initiative explores seven key regional spheres covered by the Belt-Road Initiative: Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia, South Asia and South-east Asia. On the South-east Asia’s section, OBOR covers nine states : Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. The nine economies states are home to nearly 640m people, generating US$ 2.5 trn in combined GDP. ...
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