Matt Pottinger (centre), Special Assistant to US President Donald Trump and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for East Asia, and Kim Yong Jae (R), North Korea’s minister of external economic relations, arrive for the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) at the China National Convention Centre (CNCC) in Beijing, China, 14 May 2017. Photo: EPA
Why US firms are giving the cold shoulder to China’s ‘Belt and Road’ globalisation strategy
In the US, China’s pan-Eurasian infrastructure initiative is more or less invisible outside of news reports from domestic media that mostly frame it as Beijing’s grand plan for geopolitical domination
Matt Pottinger (centre), Special Assistant to US President Donald Trump and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for East Asia, and Kim Yong Jae (R), North Korea’s minister of external economic relations, arrive for the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) at the China National Convention Centre (CNCC) in Beijing, China, 14 May 2017. Photo: EPA
