Western countries will be put off by the project’s link with Xi Jinping’s other initiative, the Global Security Initiative, which is a response to the war in Ukraine
Mr Xi has been pushing the idea hard. He routinely raises thein conversations with foreign leaders, appealing for their support. Chinese diplomats endlessly tout its virtues. They eagerly proclaim the latest tally of the number of countries that back it: about 100 so far . Half of them are members of a group that China launched in January at thecalled the Friends of the Global Development Initiative.
To many poor countries, desperate for help after being hammered by covid, such ideological tinges may not matter much. Richard Gowan of International Crisis Group, a think-tank, says such countries may regard China as helpfully “filling a space” from which Western donors will retreat as they focus on the crisis in Ukraine.
Competition with the West will spur them on. Yu Jie of Chatham House, a think-tank in London, sees the scheme in part as a response to the West’s efforts to challenge thewith its own infrastructure-building schemes such as the Build Back Better World plan announced by the, Mr Xi is giving developing countries more of a say in their affairs. The battle lines are being drawn.
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