US pressure could force some smaller countries to rethink their involvement in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, observers say. Photo: Xinhua US pressure could force some smaller countries to rethink their involvement in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, observers say. Photo: Xinhua
US pressure could force some smaller countries to rethink their involvement in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, observers say. Photo: Xinhua

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Danger ahead: US bumps in China’s global belt and road

  • Beijing’s ambitions to link countries and continents through infrastructure have hit a hazard in Romania, with Bucharest abandoning plans for a joint nuclear energy project
  • American pressure could mean a rethink in strategy for other small allies that do business with Chinese partners, observers say

Topic |   China economy
Laura Zhou
Laura Zhou in Beijing

Updated: 5:10pm, 8 Jun, 2020

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US pressure could force some smaller countries to rethink their involvement in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, observers say. Photo: Xinhua US pressure could force some smaller countries to rethink their involvement in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, observers say. Photo: Xinhua
US pressure could force some smaller countries to rethink their involvement in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, observers say. Photo: Xinhua
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