What are the big changes?


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This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Xi Jinping’s geopolitical infrastructure initiative: the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China is hosting a massive meet to commemorate one of its most ambitious global engagement experiments. World leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, are converging in Beijing for the high-profile event. The plan is changing shape as leaders from several of the approximately 150 Belt and Road countries gather in Beijing this week for a conference. China’s role has evolved from that of the world’s largest bilateral lender to that of the world’s largest debt collector. China’s Belt and Road Initiative now looks...