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The End of the Chinese Century? New book critiques BRI's flawed assumptions

The BRI has been compared to the US Marshall Plan launched after the end of the Second World War to enable the recovery of the war-ravaged economies of western Europe

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THE END OF THE CHINESE CENTURY? How Xi Jinping Lost the Belt and Road Initiative
Author: Bertil Lintner
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 256
Price: Rs 499 
Bertil Lintner has spent decades reporting on Southeast Asia and its borderlands with India and China. He has deep familiarity with the history of the India-China conflictual relations and its current dynamic in this region. His latest book, The End of the Chinese Century?, uses the trajectory of China’s most ambitious global development project — the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — to assess its claim to be the superpower of the 21st century.
 
The BRI has been