President Xi Jinping and other Chinese officials have made the right noises about addressing criticism of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to build infrastructure linking China to Asia, Africa and Europe.
At the recently concluded biennial summit of the BRI in Beijing, Mr Xi pledged that it will be "open, green and clean", in response to accusations that it lacked transparency, facilitated corruption and that some projects contributed to pollution.
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