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Silk Road Fund agreement investments amounted to about 11 billion

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Bangladesh - China - India  - Myanmar Corridor (BCIM)

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Bangladesh - China - India  - Myanmar Corridor (BCIM)

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Be proposed as a part of BRI

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Eurasian Land Bridge theoretically connected to Europe via Central and South Asia.

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China - Pakistan Economic Corridor: Operation partially started.

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Projects freezed: stop or stretch progress at Pakistan, Campuchia, Indonesia, Myanmar và Malaysia

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2,951 projects implemented or planned, up to $ 3,870 billion

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- 23 countries in "dangerous debt"
- BRI contracts again saw a sifnificant uptick.

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Italy becomes the first G7 country to join

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A route connected with 108 cities of 16 countries 

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A route connected with 108 cities of 16 countries 

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Container terminals in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong

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Container terminals in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong

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ports, power stations, rail lines, roads, and all the tunnels and bridges needed to connect them back to mainland China	

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build connections throughout Asia, Europe and Africa

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Chinese government

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global infrastructure development megaproject

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A megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project. According to the Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management, "Megaprojects are large-scale, complex ventures that typically cost $1 billion or more, take many years to develop and build, involve multiple public and private stakeholders, are transformational, and impact millions of people". However, $1 billion is not a constraint in defining megaprojects; in some contexts a relative approach is needed, such as in developing countries, where a much smaller project (such as one with a $100 million budget) could constitute a megaproject. Therefore, a more general definition is "Megaprojects are temporary endeavours (i.e. projects) characterized by: large investment commitment, vast complexity (especially in organizational terms), and long-lasting impact on the economy, the environment, and society".

Bent Flyvbjerg, a professor at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford says that globally, megaprojects make up 8 percent of total global GDP. Megaprojects refer not only to construction projects but also decommissioning projects, which are projects that can reach multi-billion budgets, and have a high level of innovation and complexity, and are affected by a number of techno-socio-economic and organizational challenges.

Care in the project development process is required to reduce any possible optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation, as a curious paradox exists in which more and more megaprojects are being proposed despite their consistently poor performance against initial forecasts of budget, schedule, and benefits.

Megaprojects are often affected by corruption, leading to higher cost and lower benefit.

According to the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), megaprojects are characterized both by "extreme complexity (both in technical and human terms) and by a long record of poor delivery". Megaprojects attract a lot of public attention because of substantial impacts on communities, environment, and budgets, and the high costs involved. Megaprojects can also be defined as "initiatives that are physical, very expensive, and public".

Megaprojects include special economic zones, public buildings, power plants, dams, airports, seaports, bridges, highways, tunnels, railways, wastewater projects, oil and natural gas extraction projects, aerospace projects, weapons systems, information technology systems, large-scale sporting events and, more recently, mixed use waterfront redevelopments; however, the most common megaprojects are in the categories of hydroelectric facilities, nuclear power plants, and large public transportation projects. Megaprojects can also include large-scale high-cost initiatives in scientific research and infrastructure, such as the sequencing of the human genome, a significant global advance in genetics and biotechnology.

According to Bent Flyvbjerg, "As a general rule of thumb, 'megaprojects' are measured in billions of dollars, 'major projects' in hundreds of millions, and 'projects' in millions and tens of millions."

The logic[by whom? ] on which many of the typical megaprojects are built is collective benefits; for example electricity for everybody (who can pay), road access (for those that have cars), etc. They may also serve as a means to open frontiers. Megaprojects have been criticised for their top-down planning processes and their ill effects on certain communities. Large scale projects often advantage one group of people while disadvantaging another, for instance, the Three Gorges Dam in China, the largest hydroelectric project in the world, required the displacement of 1.2 million farmers. In the 1970s, the highway revolts in some Western nations saw urban activists opposing government plans to demolish buildings for freeway route construction, on the basis that such demolitions would unfairly disadvantage the urban working class and benefit commuters. Anti-nuclear protests against proposed nuclear power plants in the United States and Germany prevented developments due to environmental and social concerns.[citation needed ]

More recently,[when? ] new types of megaprojects have been identified that no longer follow the old models of being singular and monolithic in their purposes, but have become quite flexible and diverse, such as waterfront redevelopment schemes that seem to offer something to everybody.[clarification needed ][citation needed ] However, just like the old megaprojects, the new ones also foreclose "upon a wide variety of social practices, reproducing rather than resolving urban inequality and disenfranchisement". Because of their plethora of land uses "these mega-projects inhibit the growth of oppositional and contestational practices". The collective benefits that are often the underlying logic of a mega-project, are here reduced to an individualized form of public benefit.

Flyvbjerg argues that policymakers are attracted to megaprojects for four reasons:

Technological sublime: the rapture that engineers and technologists get from building large and innovative projects, pushing the boundaries for what technology can do.

Political sublime: the rapture politicians get from building monuments to themselves and for their causes.

Economic sublime: the delight business people and trade unions receive from the profits and jobs created by megaprojects.

Aesthetic sublime: the pleasure designers and people who appreciate good design get from building, using, and looking at something very large that is also iconically beautiful.

Proponents of infrastructure-based development advocate for funding large-scale projects to create long-term economic benefits. Investing in megaprojects in order to stimulate the general economy has been a popular policy measure since the economic crisis of the 1930s. Recent examples are the 2008-2009 Chinese economic stimulus program, the 2008 European Union stimulus plan, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Megaprojects often raise capital based on expected returns-though projects often go overbudget and over time, and market conditions like commodity prices can change. Concern at cost overruns is often expressed by critics of megaprojects during the planning phase. Bent Flyvbjerg has noted the existence of incentives to overstate income, underestimate costs, and exaggerate future social and economic benefits due to lack of accountability and risk-sharing mechanisms. If the megaproject is delivered in a country with relevant corruption the likelihood and magnitude of having overbudgets increases.

One of the most challenging aspects of megaprojects is obtaining sufficient funding. Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff have found that creative and politically adept political leadership is required to secure resources as well as generate public support, mollify critics, and manage conflict through many years of planning, authorization and implementation. Other challenges faced by those planning megaprojects include laws and regulations that empower community groups, contested information and methodologies, high levels of uncertainty, avoiding impacts on neighborhoods and the environment, and attempting to solve a wicked problem.

A megaproject's economic failures (and successes) have common characteristics. According to John Cunningham, assessing their success, or failure, can be accomplished by benchmarking their performance against these common characteristics in order to mitigate failure and turn a troubled megaproject around.

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A megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project. According to the Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management, "Megaprojects are large-scale, complex ventures that typically cost $1 billion or more, take many years to develop and build, involve multiple public and private stakeholders, are transformational, and impact millions of people".

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Asian Infra Investment Bank - global development bank with 21 Asian member countries

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Accepted BRI financing

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Silk Road Infrastructure Fund - China’s sovereign wealth fund

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Italy, Luxembourg, and Portugal: signed provisional agreements to cooperate

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1 of most enthusiastic partners, though first with reticence

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Conditions of a win-win nature

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First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing.

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"Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road"

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Endorsed the BRI and the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; cautious about the economic, political and strategic implications of this initiative. Unlikely to consider getting Chinese loans

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Agreed on Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC)

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Agreed on Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC)

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Hesitant/ an expansionist Chinese foreign policy. Japan againsts the BRI by reforming its own lending practices

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Concerned about the strategic implications of certain Chinese-led initiatives.

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Trump administration counter BRI with ''BUILD ACT''

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"Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road"

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First launched by President  Xi Jinping

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* China’s debits traps and sovereignty threats in Asia

* not socially good nor environmentally green

* Chinese military expansions

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* Better infrastructure and transportation
* Increased trade
* Increased Investments
* Increased GDP

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in the sea, connect from the south coast of China to the Mediterranean, Africa, Southeast Asia. and Central Asia.

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on the mainland, connect China with Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Western Europe.

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65 countries throughout Eurasia and Africa

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- Geopolitical and security risks
- Environmental degradation

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- Solving Vietnam’s trade deficit
- Build a mutually beneficial strategic relationship with China
- Increased Investments
- Greater tourism potential for Vietnam and China.

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"Made in China" 2025 econ development; A push back against the USA

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- Boost Chinese domestic consumption
- Manufacturing powerhouse/cost-effective routes

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                                                   ONE BELT ONE ROAD

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                                                   ONE BELT ONE ROAD