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China’s OBOR Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada

Beijing is hosting the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on May 14 and 15, 2017. Worldwide response has been impressive; 29 heads of state and government, officials, scholars and entrepreneurs from all over the world have attend. What is the “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiativeall about, and what are the implications for Canada? The OBOR initiative More than 2,000 years ago, China’s imperial envoy Zhang Qian helped to expand the Silk Road, a network of trade routes linking China to Central Asia and the Arab…