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Two years after Chinese President Xi Jinping officially announced the Belt and Road Initiative in Astana, Kazakhstan and Indonesia, he gave this speech at the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual meeting of government, business, and academic leaders of nations all over the world.

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Kidd, S. (2022). Introduction. In: Culture Paves The New Silk Roads. Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8574-3_1

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