Abstract：On China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI), (1) as the number of BRI project grows and as thenumber of partner countries increases, the number of economic disputes that China will be involvedin will grow; (2) China should ensure that the BRI projects in a country are beneficial to the generalpopulation of that country and not just politically-biased toward the government in power at that timebecause, unlike in China, most governments in other countries come and go more frequently; and (3)economic disputes are a systemic feature of the present uncoordinated multi-polar world.