3 Sep 2018

China's Maritime Silk Road: opportunities and challenges

From , 3:04 pm on 3 September 2018

An economist in Fiji says there are opportunities and challenges for Pacific island countries signing up to China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Dozens of countries have signed up to China's massive global development plan which was announced by the Chinese President Xi Jin Ping in 2013.

Neelesh Gounder of the University of the South Pacific told Sally Round, Fiji has already joined up to the Pacific prong of the strategy - the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road

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Neelesh Gounder Photo: twitter