Historic and Geopolitical Features of the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative Author: Lukasz Repucha In 2013, China announced its global infrastructure development strategy, also known as The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) or One Belt One Road (OBOR). It is a set of gigantic infrastructure projects intended to cover the Eurasian continent with a network of economic, energy, transport and other connections. Initially, the strategy consisted of six main specific corridors. The New Eurasian Land Bridge between China and Europe, The China-Mongolia-Russia Corridor between China and Eastern Russia via Mongolia, The China-Central Asia-West Asia Corridor between China and Turkey, The China-Indochina Peninsula Corridor from southern China to Singapore, The ChinaPakistan Corridor from Kashgar through Pakistan to ports in Karachi and Gwadar, and The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Corridor which connects China with those countries. The project evolved over time, attracting the interes