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What is the Belt and Road?
Ep. 271
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Belt and Road Initiative expert Zoon Ahmed Khan is with the Center for China and Globalization and a research fellow at the Belt and Road Institute in China’s prestigious Tsinghua University. We ask her to explain the goals of the Belt and Road. She explains how it works and how its 150 member countries are modernizing.
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