[caption id="attachment_20198" align="aligncenter" width="640"] FILE PHOTO: Logo of Swiss hearing aid maker Sonova is seen at the company's headquarters in Staefa, Switzerland May 16, 2017....

[caption id="attachment_20195" align="alignnone" width="2560"] FILE PHOTO: The logo of SoftBank Group Corp is displayed at SoftBank World 2017 conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2017....

The flagship project under China’s Belt and Road Initiative has run into a lack of sustained investment, which analysts said is holding back its progress....