Chinese leader Xi Jinping boasted in mid-October about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at a summit in Beijing meant to showcase the project a decade after it first launched. But after 10 years of scandals and successes, what’s the true story about the BRI? On today's episode, host Reid Standish is joined by Jacob Mardell, the editorial coordinator for China at the German NGO N-Ost, to unpack where the ambitious project stands today, dispel myths over how it works, and take a deeper look at where it’s headed.

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Producer: Katie Toth
Editors: Carla Pedret, Kathleen Moore, and Pete Baumgartner
Studio direction: Kaisa Alliksaar
Video editor: Giovana Alves Faria

00:00 Intro
01:30 What is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)?
04:36 What do the motivations for BRI look like up close?
06:42 World's reception of the BRI
07:40 Chinese banks' funding for infrastructure and Chinese companies' contracts
12:28 'Debt-trap diplomacy' and the highway in Montenegro
15:41 What ​is ​the ​story ​behind ​the ​highway in Montenegro?
18:56 BRI's image after the Montenegro and Sri Lanka scandals
21:12 How's the BRI today after 10 years?
24:44 What ​do ​people ​misunderstand ​about ​the ​BRI, ​and ​where ​is ​it ​going?
26:10 Outro

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