China’s Belt and Road initiative in a post-Covid world
The Headlines
In the 17th Feb. issue of Time magazine, in a lead article headlined “The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Derail Xi Jinping’s Dreams of a Chinese Century” their political columnist wrote “the crisis has already demonstrated that the centralization of political power under Xi has made Chinese society brittle. The question now is what it will endure before it begins to crack.”
The South China Morning Post in an article around the same time predicted “Closure of overseas...