China’s Belt & Road

China’s flagship foreign policy effort could reshape the world’s digital, trade, and transport networks and political ties for decades to come.

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Global Infrastructure

The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge

Over the next 15 years, more hard infrastructure is projected to be built around the world than currently exists. As our infrastructure is transformed, so will be the economies it fuels, the regions it connects, and the global commons it underpins. These trends are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop, and too consequential to ignore.

China’s Clean Energy Challenge

China’s Global Energy Interconnection (GEI) initiative is an ambitious vision for transforming the global energy system that pairs a pitch for climate leadership with Beijing’s industrial policy priorities. As China makes a play for green leadership in global energy governance, the U.S. needs to present a positive agenda of its own for the clean-energy transition.