Blog 6

    The Belt and Road Initiative on the surface is a Chinese program aimed to build roads in underdeveloped areas to help urbanize and better connect it to the rest of the world. The BRI is not only a Chinese domestic policy but is rather an international one. The BRI helps build roads in Asia, Africa and South America. Under the surface China uses this program as almost a counter to the WTO and World Bank. China typically builds the infrastructure with Chinese labor and Chinese money which tends to anger the countries they are operating in. Because the BRI uses Chinese labor and money, China can use the BRI as a quasi loan to countries opening a door to seizure of land due to non-payment of the loan. This is the mechanic that rivals the WTO and World Bank as the restriction that come with the BRI are equal to those of the WTO and World Bank. The BRI is the Chinese version of the WTO and World Bank and takes power away from the West and America as an appetizing alternative. The BRI up a point where globalization has gone too far. If a country cannot use its own workforce to help accomplish the BRI goal, then it can be assumed that China is not trying to help economical development but rather a coup to expand its territory through economics.