Big Questions, Expert Answers
New Series Explores Asia’s Future
Big Questions
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China in Europe
What is new about China’s Belt and Road is that it is more likely to succeed outside of Eurasia, leading to new opportunities but also unexpected challenges for Europe and the United States.
Washington’s Challenge in Central Asia
Given the wars in the Middle East, the muscle-flexing of China towards its neighbors, the strategic challenges to NATO and its allies posed by Russia, and the serious drug wars on the southern border of the United States, attention in Washington is clearly—and understandably—divided. However, a significant challenge to U.S. national security is looming in Eurasia and appears to be receiving limited attention from the U.S. government: Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative and its plan to connect China with Western Europe through overland routes across Central Asia.
A Silk Road for the Twenty-First Century?
Many of the proposed projects will be delayed or never built, but those that are will transform the region.
Whither Eurasian Integration?
Obstacles Formidable but not Insurmountable