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© Getty Images The U.S. has recently signaled that it is ready to respond to the economic and geopolitical threats posed by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a trillion-dollar global infrastructure investment program. China is now the largest global lender for infrastructure, exceeding all of the major multilateral development banks put together. President Joe Biden suggested to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that “we should have … a similar initiative, pulling from the democratic states, helping those communities around the world that … need help."  To be truly successful, h...

The Straits Times Alternative BRI may not only be feasible, but completely unavoidable: Statesman columnist In the article, the writer says that while more than 100 countries have inked various sub-components of China's BRI - fears of erosion of sovereignty have led to an all-time high fear of the Chinese 'aid'. A visitor looking at the information board showing Hong Kong's participation in the Belt and Road Initiative.PHOTO: ST FILE Bhopinder Singh https://str.sg/JCEq They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read th...

April 5, 2021 Share China’s expansive connectivity vision—the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—is an immensely ambitious development campaign to boost trade and stimulate economic growth across Asia, Africa, Europe and beyond. It is building roads, pipelines and a port in Pakistan, bridges in Bangladesh, and railways in Russia and Malaysia to create China’s “Modern Silk Road” trading route to kick start a new era of globalization for better global connectivity. The BRI or Belt & Road (B&R), or One Belt One Road (OBOR), as it was known earlier, is a global infrastructure deve...

Modern Island Hopping: The Geopolitical Battle for the Pacific 01.Apr.2021 9:00 AM . 8 min read In August 2020, China’s ambassador to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati raised a great deal of controversy when he literally walked on the backs of a line of islanders. The United States and its allies strongly condemned the scenario. “I simply cannot imagine any scenario in which walking on the backs of children is acceptable behaviour by an ambassador of any country,” wrote Constantine Panayiotou, the US defense attaché to Kiribati, on Twitter. But the Chinese saw matters di...

To succeed, the Quad needs to evolve from a China-focused club of four to a group of first movers on an array of specific functional challenges. The best way to do this is for the four countries to form the core of a rotating set of ad hoc problem-solving coalitions in the Indo-Pacific.