"The emergence of China as a major economic power in the first decade of the millennium prompted the biggest commodity …

A history of economic connections across the Asian landmass -- Asia divided : China and Central Asia during the Soviet …"Since China's announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, commentary on China's activity in Eurasia … has proliferated. Western observers tend to portray China as an aggressive power devoted to projecting its geopolitical …