Belt and Road Initiative serves to promote multilateral cooperation

It is natural for such a big international project as China's Belt and Road Initiative to be taken by some with a grain of salt. But the fact that 129 countries and 29 international organizations have so far signed cooperation documents with China on the initiative shows that such views are in the minority.

The most common charges laid at China's door are the Belt and Road is a debt trap and it is all about China's strategic objectives. It has also been called a "scheme to split European Union". And other labels will certainly appear.

Those criticizing the initiative may seek to present themselves as having more sense or greater perspicacity and thus able to see the "truth" of the Belt and Road. But those who seek to portray it as ill-intentioned are those who habitually speak ill of China.