Assignment task: "After A Brief Silence, Skeptics of China's Belt and Road Initiative Are Speaking Up Again"
After reading the article, discuss and argue based on the following questions:
a. Which of the 60 or so countries in Asia, Europe and Africa along the Belt and Road will likely be the Initiative's priority targets of economic cooperation?
b. Do you think China is trying to increase the debt gap among the developing countries by lending huge loans for infrastructure?
c. Are investment and trade, considered the "major task" of the Initiative by China, to be driven by market-based transactions, or will they be a form of foreign aid that is not based on economic calculation of gains and losses?