One Belt One Road - Xi Jinping's Green Vision?

The Belt and Road Initiative, also known as One Belt, One Road, or the New Silk Road, is quite simply the most ambitious social and civil engineering project since the Marshall Plan after the Second World War. But is President Xi Jinping's vision one of a green utopian future or will his plans cause even more climate chaos? This week we take a look.

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