Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. When China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched in 2013, I was a great admirer. On paper, it was—and remains—the most ...

Too often opportunities concentrate within capital cities or designated special economic zones, and thereby render the rest of the country peripheral.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is expanding into the Pacific through infrastructure projects and concessional loans, continuing a long history of flexible sovereignty influenced by external powers.

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All five Central Asian landlocked states were particularly focused on turning the limitations of being “landlocked” into ...