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This volume, the 4th one in the Belt and Road Blue Book, brings together reports written by researchers from the Institute of Belt and Road, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies, and Institute for Eurasian Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In relation to the country’s efforts to protect its national interests abroad, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents both opportunities and challenges The amount of media coverage, the number of publications and the volume of thinktank research on this topic over the past five years illustrate the remarkable increase in the level of worldwide interest in this monumental development strategy by the Chinese government. This volume presents the latest and most informed expert commentaries on the BRI.