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With a high-profile summit for the Belt and Road initiative, China aims to transform the project into a multilateral platform which experts say serves to reform the current globalisation model
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The idea of industrial parks run by Chinese enterprises along the Belt and Road seeks to boost the industrialisation process of host countries. Their success lies in a mutual learning process, which means Chinese operators and policy makers cannot simply copy past experiences
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AN AVOIDABLE ASSAULT
Total disregard for the environment by industry and government has led to a landscape pockmarked with pools of pollution
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