The white paper was released at an important juncture that is deemed as both a milestone and a new start of BRI cooperation, after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the grand initiative 10 years ago. It was also issued ahead of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) to be held this month, which analysts believe would serve as a testimony debunking stepped-up Western slandering, while uniting more consensuses on the initiative's future development blueprint, the
newspaper added.
The EU and the US seem to view BRI cooperation, which leads to win-win results, differently because they often approach everything as a zero-sum game, Levente Horváth, Hungary's former consul general to Shanghai and the director of Eurasia Center told Global Times. But BRI collaboration with China appears to offer more promising prospects, as China is "open to engaging with other countries without seeking dominance or control over their internal policies, unlike some Western nations," he said.
