{"id":59244,"date":"2023-10-17T01:54:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/china-woos-global-south-and-embraces-putin-at-belt-and-road-beijing-summit"},"modified":"2023-10-17T01:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:54:39","slug":"china-woos-global-south-and-embraces-putin-at-belt-and-road-beijing-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59244","title":{"rendered":"China woos global south and embraces Putin at belt and road Beijing summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Development drive\u2019s forum will focus on poorer countries as Xi\u2019s relations with the west become increasingly frosty <\/p>\n<p>World leaders are gathering in Beijing for China\u2019s belt and road initiative (BRI) forum, the third such event since the trademark global development drive was launched by President Xi Jinping 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The BRI was originally envisioned as a vast physical and digital infrastructure project to connect China with central Asia, south-east Asia, Europe and the rest of the world. It later broadened into a mammoth infrastructure financing vehicle for Chinese lenders to support projects in nearly every corner of the world, particularly in the global south. With that support came China\u2019s mounting influence on the world stage, even as western countries became increasingly sceptical of the BRI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/china-woos-global-south-and-embraces-putin-at-belt-and-road-beijing-summit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development drive\u2019s forum will focus on poorer countries as Xi\u2019s relations with the west become increasingly frosty World leaders are gathering in Beijing for China\u2019s belt and road initiative (BRI) forum, the third such event since the trademark global&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,412,50,419,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-china","category-russia","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59245,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59244\/revisions\/59245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}