Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), (yidai yilu in Mandarin) is viewed as one of the most recent foreign policy initiatives of Chinese government. Initially, this ambitious project was termed as One Belt One Road (OBOR) in China which was later renamed as Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It consists of overland connectivity in the form of ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ as well as ‘21st Century Maritime Silk Road’ that indicates the maritime dimension. These are the major axes along which China proposes to economically link Europe to China through countries across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean1 . At the time of its launch, the project was intended to be completed by 2049, the year marking the hundredth anniversary of Peoples’ Republic of China’s existence.