This article considers how the West, and especially Australia, views China at the present time. It gives priority to views about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a two-fold project forming part of President Xi Jinping’s China Dream, which aims to “revitalize the Chinese nation”. He articulated the Silk Road Economic Belt in the Kazakhstan capital Astana in September 2013 and, the next month, followed this up by announcing the Maritime Silk Road in the Indonesian. parliament.