The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), known within China as the One Belt One Road or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in more than 150 countries and international organizations.
Without starting a single war China has snatched huge business opportunities from Westerners in 152 nations. From dredging new ports to hydroelectric dams china is allover.
Is everything you are wearing made in China. The gadget you are posting on assembled in Chaina? Your chae mug made in china and the brewing done in a made-in-china pot? China has to build infastructure to gets its goods to the market and raw materials to its factories.
They produce what the world needs … that gives them leverage in world trade.
For USA, it’s the dollar… when your currency is what everyone in international trade trusts…you treat the world like your playground…