What is BRI?

CHINESE President Xi Jinping, in 2013, announced his visionary plan for infrastructure development and investments in 152 countries and named it Belt and Road initiative (BRI). This multi trillion dollar project is an attempt to enhance regional connectivity and embrace a brighter future. The BRI has six main economic corridors which are named as; (1) the New Eurasian Land Bridge; (2) the China-Central Asia-West Asia Corridor; (3) the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor; (4) the Bangladesh-China- Myanmar Corridor; (5) the China-Mongolia-Russia Corridor; (6) the China-Indochina Peninsula Corridor. Out of the six corridors only China Pakistan Economic Corridor is a bilateral project.