The New Silk Road or Belt and Road Initiative corresponds to an enormous international infrastructure investment program launched and largely financed by the People's Republic of China and providing for the construction/modernization of port, road, railroad, pipeline, energy and communications...

This study focuses on the most recent development of Chinese overseas investment and construction and of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2019-23, from a project-oriented perspective. As a source we use data of the China Global Investment Tracker (CGIT) of the American Enterprise Institute....