According to the “Belt-and-Road news” website: “In the post-COVID era, Beijing’s power over [Central Asia] could greatly expand, helping propel it along the fast track toward superpower status.”
Back in 2013, the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, adopted its “Belt-and-Road Initiative”—a global infrastructure development project aimed at connecting Asia with Africa and Europe.
And since its start, China has proudly touted the strategy’s achievements, but the regime seems to be using it as a foot-hold to export its control.