| Tian et al. (2016) [55] | Outward FDI of China has become economically important to touch international investment with a 50% annual growth rate. | China Economic Journal |
| Yang et al. (2016) [56] | The rail way infrastructure can connect China to Europe as an important part of the BRI initiative. | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability |
| Wolff (2016) [57] | The Belt and Road initiative has focused on infrastructure expansion and regional collaboration by organizations, mostly with the development banks. | German Development Institute |
| Xu (2016) [58] | China impetuses to reach well-adjusted regional development between coastal and inland regions, and places a priority on investment by BRI Initiative. | China Economic Review |
| Xue (2016) [59] | BRI influences the foreign policy agenda of China from “keeping a low profile” to “proactively and enterprisingly striving for achievements”. | Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies |
| Hali et al. (2015) [60] | The BRI has been planned by Chinese policy makers and their supporters as a game changer for the whole area. | Strategic Studies |
| Haggai (2016) [61] | BRI initiative has huge potential in promoting economic growth in the partner nations. | World Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities |
| Yuqing (2016) [62] | China plans to achieve political, financial and diplomatic objectives through the AIIB through enabling BRI approach and routing regional collaboration and incorporation. | Chinese Political Science Review |
| Huang (2016) [63] | BRI initiative aims to boost business and spread affluence across 60-plus countries with more than 4 billion people by construction of essential infrastructure and enhancing financial and trade links. | China Economic Review |
| EIU (2015) [64] | BRI is not only focused a transformed, stronger and better harmonized push to enlarge China’s inspiration to foreign, but also joined with an internal investment initiative. | The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited |
| Swaine (2015) [65] | The BRI offers great potential in major financial, political, social, and tactical dominions; it also offerings many risks and possible anxieties. | China Leadership Monitor |
| Zimmerman (2015) [66] | BRI has been designed to redesign the financial and political direction in Central Asia and the Asian Pacific region by stimulating a connection of trade ways, political collaboration, and social exchange. | Center on International Cooperation |