Whatever China’s diplomatic rhetoric has been since it launched its ‘One Belt, One Road’ project in 2013 – officially re-translated into English in 2016 on Beijing’s insistence to the less totalitarian-sounding ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) – the goal of the regime remains to challenge the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower. President Joe Biden is acutely aware of this and so was Donald Trump when he first took the top office in 2017. As President-elect again, Trump’s view has not…
