). Since Beijing launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 3/4 of countries in the world have engaged with China …'s arrangement of promoting global physical and digital connectivity. This still leaves a quarter of them that have refused China … rivalry have spoiled the appetite of European countries to intensify their ties with China, many developing countries seem to …

increasingly attrac­tive alternative route between Europe and China. Russia’s war has disrupted overland connectivity via the New …