In this op-ed, Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, explores the possibility that the two new infrastructure investment initiatives proposed by the US and EU might pose a challenge to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Battle of the BRI’s - How the West plans to challenge China’s rise through infrastructure, and why it might not succeed.
Will the appeal of the Western-led global democratic order triumph over China’s pragmatic approach to infrastructure investments?