The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is being used to cover domestic investment in Tajikistan in an area with a growing Chinese military presence.
Despite claims in an op-ed in the People’s Daily newspaper, a much-lauded economic transformation, credited to the BRI, is actually being funded by a state-owned Tajik aluminum smelter, Talco, that has been linked with the Tajik president’s family.
The Belt and Road initiative, unveiled in 2013, is China’s flagship policy to spread
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