"Daniel Drache, York University, Canada" "Xing Li, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark" "Adam T. Kingsmith, Ryerson University/York University, Canada" "Clara Baumann, Max Planck Institute/Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany" "Xiao Alvin Yang, Universität Kassel, Germany"

Will the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) reshape the global economy and world order in the coming post-COVID-19 world? Since the launch of the BRI in 2013, then known as the One Belt and One Road, debates have centered around the question of whether the BRI is challenging or complementing the existing global economic order and international order. Different people and institutions have addressed this question from a wide spectrum of competing perspectives, offering diverse opinions and interpretations. The media have also created a variety of competing narratives and depictions of the BRI.