https://www.scmp.com/rss/322566/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China’s dream of building a New Silk Road is in trouble. Each day, it looks less like a strategy than a gamble, with risks that party leaders try to minimise or ignore. Grandiose plans to unite continents and oceans aim to project China’s status as a global power, but they betray an impulse towards overreach that threatens to check Chinese influence abroad and to aggravate vulnerabilities at home. It’s doubtful that any country could aspire to transform the world so thoroughly without turning... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940610/roadblocks-and-detours-aplenty-chinas-new-silk-road?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1940610/roadblocks-and-detours-aplenty-chinas-new-silk-road?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 May 2016 03:33:23 +0000