We’ve all heard about China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which has been making news since it was launched at the end of 2013, but when and how did China start its push westward? Dr Parag Khanna explains that ‘upon the conclusion of Chinas civil war in 1949, China began a decades-long campaign to push westward into contested terrain…By the time the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Chinese roads were well positioned to expand across once frozen Cold War borders and reshape the trade relations of the half-dozen newly independent Central Asian republics’. He takes us through the history of China and roads and explains how the world has largely ignored or misinterpreted this push. So what should be done to ensure that ‘all roads need no…
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