What to Pack for a Silk Road Trip
Preparing for our trip along the Silk Road has been about adapting – to different regulations, technological barriers, and financial challenges.
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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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.
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.
Quoted: Praise for OBOR at Davos
Here’s what four leaders had to say about China and its “One Belt, One Road” policy at the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos.