Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a four-part series exploring the underlying motivations behind China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative and the challenges that it will face. As part of its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, China is looking to build new inroads into South Asia. The region is rife with oppo...

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(Chanchai Duangdoosan/Shutterstock) Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a four-part series exploring the underlying motivations behind China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative and the challenges that it will face. Southeast Asia is the pivot of China’s sprawling 65-nation Belt and Road Initiative. The region&#...

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Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a four-part series exploring the underlying motivations behind China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative and the challenges that it will face. China’s Belt and Road Initiative encompasses six economic corridors. But in geographic and ideological terms, Europe represents the end...

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The Silk Road has become the stuff of legend. For centuries, the web of trade routes, which expanded to traverse Central Asia and the Mediterranean Sea, connected China to the European Continent, facilitating commerce and cultural exchange. But beyond the economic opportunity that the Silk Road afforded China, it also served a strategic purpose. The Han...

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(ALEXEI DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) Forecast Highlights The Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Eurasian Economic Union will soon gain more clout across Eurasia. The region’s precarious security environment and Europe’s persistent divisions will force the blocs’ members to cooperate more closely ...

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