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The '''Belt and Road Initiative''' ('''BRI'''), formerly the '''One Belt, One Road''' is an umbrella term used to cover a range of Chinese funded, and usually Chinese built, [[infrastructure]] projects around the globe. BRI is an ambitious plan to connect [[Asia]] and more than 100 nations with 21st-century [[economic]] infrastructure, everything from highways and high-speed rail lines to power generation, energy pipelines, communication systems, cities, ports and more.  Usually it's a condition of funding that the host country use Chinese companies, and often Chinese workers, to build the project. Often the relevant facilities are then run by Chinese personnel. For economically vulnerable countries with ambitious leaders, a big advantage of Belt and Road money is that it rarely involves the accountability and transparency requirements of a regular loan, and is often accompanied by massive political donations. If the host country can't make the payments, China than repossesses the project.  

The '''Belt and Road Initiative''' ('''BRI'''), formerly the '''One Belt, One Road''' is an umbrella term used to cover a range of Chinese funded, and usually Chinese built, [[infrastructure]] projects around the globe. BRI is an ambitious plan to connect [[Asia]] and more than 100 nations with 21st-century [[economic]] infrastructure, everything from highways and high-speed rail lines to power generation, energy pipelines, communication systems, cities, ports and more.  Usually it's a condition of funding that the host country use Chinese companies, and often Chinese workers, to build the project. Often the relevant facilities are then run by Chinese personnel. For economically vulnerable countries with ambitious leaders, a big advantage of Belt and Road money is that it rarely involves the accountability and transparency requirements of a regular loan, and is often accompanied by massive political donations. If the host country can't make the payments, China than repossesses the project.  

==Djibouti==

==Djibouti==

[[Djibouti]] has become a geostrategic point for [[China]]. With a population of under one million, it is situated in a geopolitical hotspot, at the end of a chokepoint between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden through which one-third of the world's ships must pass to transport energy and cargo.

[[Djibouti]] has become a geostrategic point for [[China]]. With a population of under one million, it is situated in a geopolitical hotspot, at the end of a chokepoint between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden through which one-third of the world's ships must pass to transport energy and cargo.