iThe Silk Road Economic Belt and the twenty-first century Maritime Silk Road, better known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is a development strategy proposed by Chinas President Xi Jinping in 2013 that focuses on connectivity and cooperation between Eurasian countries. The reasons for initiating the Belt and Road include the trends of antiglobalization and global economic decline, the rise of China as a global economic power, and the rise of China as a global investor. In particular, the BRI can provide international public goods. The process of building the Belt and Road will face legal challenges, sovereignty and territorial integrity/maritime disputes, international trade and investment risks, the Sino-European markets economic status, and overlapping and conflicting bilateral and multilateral treaties. The BRI needs a dispute settlement mechanism to solve the disputes among the Belt and Road countries. Facing legal challenges, we need to insist on the rule-based spirit and basic principles of international law; provide bilateral, multilateral, and treaty safeguard systems; support legal communication and cooperation; and strengthen the BRIs legal capability.
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