Editing Politics of China (section)

=== Foreign aid ===
{{Main|Chinese foreign aid|Belt and Road Initiative}}
After the establishment of the [[People's Republic of China]] under the CCP in 1949, China joined the international community in providing foreign aid. In the past few decades, the international community has seen an increase in Chinese foreign aid. Specifically, a recent example is the [[Belt and Road Initiative]] (BRI), a global infrastructure project that was launched in 2013 by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=China's Massive Belt and Road Initiative |url=https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-massive-belt-and-road-initiative |access-date=2021-05-14 |website=[[Council on Foreign Relations]] |language=en |archive-date=26 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526233755/https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-massive-belt-and-road-initiative |url-status=live }}</ref> The stated goal of the program is to expand maritime routes and land infrastructure networks connecting China with Asia, Africa, and Europe, boosting trade and economic growth.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Belt and Road Initiative|url=https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/regional-integration/brief/belt-and-road-initiative|access-date=2021-05-14|website=World Bank|language=en|archive-date=18 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518134904/https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/regional-integration/brief/belt-and-road-initiative|url-status=live}}</ref> It involves a massive development of trade routes that will create a large expansion of land transportation infrastructure and new ports in the Pacific and Indian oceans to facilitate regional and intercontinental trade flow and increase oil and gas supply.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ascensão |first1=Fernando |last2=Fahrig |first2=Lenore |last3=Clevenger |first3=Anthony P. |last4=Corlett |first4=Richard T. |last5=Jaeger |first5=Jochen A. G. |last6=Laurance |first6=William F. |last7=Pereira |first7=Henrique M. |date=May 2018 |title=Environmental challenges for the Belt and Road Initiative |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0059-3 |journal=[[Nature Sustainability]] |language=en |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=206–209 |doi=10.1038/s41893-018-0059-3 |bibcode=2018NatSu...1..206A |issn=2398-9629 |s2cid=133850310 |access-date=14 May 2021 |archive-date=18 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618162814/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0059-3 |url-status=live }}</ref>