♤ Audit firm PwC estimates that currently about US$ 250 billion worth of projects are either underway or signed off.

1.11.1. Early Assessment of OBOR/BRI

♤ China’s strategy: China's strategy to grab land and assets in smaller, less-developed countries is simple: it gives them loans on high rates for infrastructural projects, gets equity into projects, and when the country is unable to repay the loan, it gets ownership