China has halted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investments in Russia, seemingly due to the threat of western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times reported.
Official lending between 2000 and 2017 totalled more than $125 billion, the FT said, but no deals had been struck this year, adding that Saudi Arabia had become one of the biggest BRI recipients.
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