Presenters offer both skeptical and hopeful reviews of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, including an insightful exchange on the role of financing when determining costs and benefits of BRI projects.

Panelists:

Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Kenneth Pomeranz, Professor of Modern Chinese History and in the College, University of Chicago

Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Facilitator: Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Contributor, CNBC

For more on the 2018 US-China Forum, visit: uschinaforum2018.uchicago.edu