Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Boom
Quotes and Quotas is a weekly digest of phrases and facts that help explain Asia’s infrastructure push.
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Driverless in Eurasia
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to re-shape the continent of Asia’s economic geography, but they face infrastructure challenges unique to the region.
Retracing Marco Polo’s Footsteps
Inspired by Marco Polo’s historic travels, we are a team of three explorers driving from Venice to Beijing this spring. Employing a sociological and economic lens, we will be retracing the Silk Road and follow the new path paved by China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative.
Disruption on the Docks
The fastest-growing container trade in the world is intra-Asian trade. It is here that the business case for automated terminal investment is strongest.
Trump’s Global Infrastructure Opportunity
In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump reiterated a central policy priority of his campaign: the need to invest in our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. Last week, Senate Democrats introduced their own $1 trillion infrastructure plan. What has garnered less attention is the critical demand for infrastructure overseas, estimated at $4 trillion annually, that presents significant strategic and commercial opportunities for the United States. Yet the infrastructure arena is also one of fierce competition where other countries are leading and U.S. firms are lagging. As officials who recently concluded their service at the U.S. Departments of Commerce and State, we traveled across the globe leading U.S. business delegations and engaging foreign officials in support of our companies and job creation at home. While the United States has made strides in shoring up its competitiveness in the infrastructure sector, more can and must be done.