China’s Belt and Road Initiative, episode three: copper bottomed

Episode one of our Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) series demonstrated  that BRI is already seven times larger than the Marshall Plan. Episode two estimated how much steel will be required to execute the top 400 projects in our proprietary database. This episode focuses on the impact of BRI on a commodity which we do not hide our affection for  – copper. 

At the time of our last update, BRI included 68 countries or regions. Today, it has expanded to 115. They cover a vast area of Eurasia and parts of Africa, Latin America and Oceania. They house more than half the world’s population and comprise around one third of the global economy.