House Panel Raises Alarm Over China’s Belt and Road Initiative

The U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) raised warnings on Thursday that the Chinese regime is using its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to indebt and then leverage influence over the developing world. At a hearing titled “All Roads Lead to Beijing? The CCP’s Global Development Offensive,” committee members heard from Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute President and CEO David Trulio, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Senior Vice President Daniel Runde, and Brad Parks, who is the executive director of AidData at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute....