Lincoln Leong
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- Milken Institute1h 1m
Speed Bumps Ahead: China's Belt and Road Initiative
Sheryl WuDunn, Lincoln Leong, Kevin Lu, Winston Ma, Dominic Ng, Perry Wong
The Belt and Road Initiative represents a trillion-dollar, 68-nation infrastructure strategy by China designed to export industrial overcapacity, secure energy routes, and achieve geopolitical dominance by 2049. While the project faces significant sovereign debt risks and regulatory hurdles in emerging markets, it has attracted Western corporate participation and positioned Hong Kong as a key financing hub despite US strategic hesitancy. Experts anticipate a transition from state-led funding to private market dominance over the next decade, driven by the commercial viability of interconnected digital and physical networks.
- Milken Institute1h 6m
Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative: Financing Asia's Needs
William Lee, Paul Gruenwald, Gerald Keefe, Lincoln Leong, Joachim von Amsberg, Faisal Syed
Addressing the trillions of dollars in infrastructure financing gaps across Asia, this panel discusses the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's strategy to mobilize private capital through innovative project selection and cross-border connectivity. By leveraging value-capture models like MTR's rail-property approach and structured financial products such as maturity transformation, multilateral institutions aim to de-risk long-term investments for global institutional investors. The discussion concludes that shifting from bank-dominated lending to a market-based system requires robust public-private partnerships, regulatory certainty, and the allocation of specific risks to ensure sustainable economic development.