Confirming studies by Lyndon LaRouche’s “LaRouche-Riemann Economic Model” team going back four decades, a new study by Nanjing University researchers, covering 197 nations as to their participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has found improved political stability and governance in the 146 nations which participated. The study was published in the peer-reviewed Quarterly Journal of International Politics.
The earlier LaRouche-Riemann studies found a consistent correlation between economic infrastructure modernization and economic productivity.
The BRI was initiated in 2013 by China’s President Xi Jinping. After its initially being welcomed even by Western media, those media universally turned hostile to the grand infrastructure initiative, claiming that it bred corruption and was a “debt trap” for developing nations. Those charges were countered, again, by published studies of EIR’s Hussein Askary, Jason Ross, and others.
