As a pillar of China’s aspiration to create a community of shared future for mankind, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims at strengthening the economic connectivity with countries across Asia and beyond. Located at the junction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, the Arab countries are natural partners of BRI, said Long Ding, the professor and director at the Center for Gulf Studies, University of International Business and Economics in China. Read the story>>