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Five years after its launch, China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative is still \u201cpopular\u201d in target countries<\/strong> despite issues that have infected an estimated 14% of the projects in the 88 mostly developing countries that are being invested in, Raffaello Pantucci writes in a guest post for the Financial Times<\/a>. Pantucci points out that the most significant issues were seen in Pakistan, Malaysia and Myanmar, all due to local government pushing to renegotiate project terms. The article doesn\u2019t mention Egypt, but it reminds us that last month the Suez Canal Authority<\/a> rejected an offer from a state-owned Chinese company for a reason that remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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