China’s Xi Jinping announces Belt & Road initiative

In Kazakhstan on September 7, 2013 China’s President, Xi Jinping, announced an initiative to build an “economic belt along the Silk Road”, where China would invest in infrastructure and energy in nearly 70 countries and international organizations.  This was later referred to as the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). [1, 2]

In 2017, the BRI was incorporated into the CCP’s constitution, resulting in an additional 61 countries joining in 2018 alone, and by 2021 a total of 139 countries are formally affiliated with China’s initiative, though not Australia. [3]

The project has a target completion date of 2049, which would coincide with the centennial of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s founding.

Private firm, CEFC China Energy Company Limited was part of the BRI build.  CEFC Chairman, Ye Jianming, and China’s “Spy Chief”, Patrick Ho had business dealings with Hunter Biden, son of the then Vice President Biden (“the big guy“). [4]