BEIJING, March 19 (INP): Noted Chinese foreign policy expert Professor Lou Jianbo said that Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a top highlight of Chinese foreign policy and it has turned from an Idea into action. In his interview to local and foreign media, Lou who is currently Director, Research Office for China's Foreign Affairs, Institute for International Strategic Studies said that Belt and Road Initiative which came into being four years ago, has now turned into reality. In fact, the BRI has become a top highlight of Chinese foreign policy. He deplored that there is still pretty much misunderstanding about BRI in the international community and some people expressed some worries and fears that China's rise will present a challenge to the current international order. He clarified that BRI is not to reinvent the wheel outside the existing global order and it is not meant to sabotage the current global order and build a new one.

BRI aims to establish a new platform for win win cooperation

He said BRI will help to innovate, supplement and perfect the current system. It is constructive to the existing international system. BRI is not geopolitical tool of China, nor its purpose is to establish an exclusive interest group. On the contrary, BRI aims to establish a new platform for win win cooperation, he said. He further added that BRI is the new strategy of opening up in the new era of China's development. "Smooth implementation of BRI will benefit economic development of the countries which sign up to it. BRI was born in China but it belongs to the entire world. This move is meant to create an environment of peace, openness, cooperation and win win, and explore further space for common development, enlarge common interests, share the bonus of growth and increase strategic consensus”, he added.