China’s Rise: Needs Must When The Devil Drives. While America, and Europe along with it, focuses on the Trump administration’s hawkish tendencies towards the Middle East, Russian influence, and far right fringes in Europe, China is changing the Eurasian geostrategic landscape, one infrastructure project at a time. Through the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road initiative, more commonly known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China seeks to intertwine the region using a wide assortment of infrastructure projects. With an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars, railroads, ports and fiber optic communication hubs are … Continue reading Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative signaling the West’s setting sun?