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In China’s Shadow (Robert Wright & Sebastian Strangio)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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Belt and Road in Southeast Asia?

The Belt and Road Initiative is perceived in the West as this sort of like master plan for world domination. But it's, you know, in some ways a little bit more mundane than that," says Peter Bergen. In Southeast Asia, "the Belt and Road takes many forms," he adds. The most recent example is a $6 billion railway from China to Laos.

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