Dan and Xi get Belt-and-Road cosy as the rest of us get alarmed
As tensions between China and Australia appear to escalate, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is holding tight to his special deal with China to join in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but at what cost to Australia’s national interests? The BRI is the Chinese Government’s signature foreign and economic policy – a $1.5 trillion mega project, first announced in 2013, that plans to build land and maritime trade routes around the globe, investing in infrastructure projects for pipelines, ports, railways and more in dozens of countries. It has been reported that China has already signed 170 memoranda of understanding with…