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Standardizing is good, don't get me wrong. The phrasing though... ๐ฌ
I have some bad news for you about the vernacular nomenclature of the BRI
First of all, "One Belt, One Road" is missing the third part, the appeal to national unity ("One Europe) which is what makes the slogan in the EU tweet sound like the well known Nazi phrase.
Secondly, it hits very different when it's a European institution led by a bunch of Germans and other people with Nazi or Nazi collaborator ancestry and a generational obsession with destroying Russia that are saying it.