After Xi's remarks at the Belt and Road Forum last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin took the stage.
Last Sunday, in Beijing, President Xi hosted what was billed as China's version of Davos — the Belt and Road Forum (with the unfortunate acronym BARF).
At the end of the month, many European Union member states will also go to Beijing for a Belt and Road forum.
As Xi said at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing last year, "The ancient silk routes were not for trade only, they boosted flow of knowledge as well.
The North's launch took place as its biggest supporter, China, was hosting delegations from around the world at its "One Belt One Road" forum in Beijing.
Sunday marked the start of the Belt and Road Forum (BARF) in Beijing, a first-of-its-kind conference about China's Belt and Road initiative.
On May 13, India's Ministry of External Affairs released its formal response to a question about Indian representation at the Belt and Road Forum, attended by "nearly three dozen" heads of state and dozens of senior officials from around the world.
She will attend a Belt and Road forum in Beijing on Thursday, where she says participants will try to identify the benefits and significant boost to growth that opening new trade routes would bring.
In a sharp shift in U.S. policy from that of the Obama Administration, President Donald Trump recently agreed to send an American representative to the recent One Belt, One Road forum.
Just days after Xi Jinping's epic Belt and Road Forum in May, India's Prime Minister Modi unveiled a vision to counter the international ambitions of China at a meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Gujarat.
Last May, China's president Xi Jinping hosted the first Belt and Road Forum ("One Belt, One Road") in Beijing, offering hundreds of billions of dollars to over 100 interested countries for infrastructure projects.
