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Feb 04, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

If China’s trillion-dollar Belt & Road Initiative is a source of expanding China’s global political and economic footprint, railway networks are a crucial mechanism helping Beijing realize its ambitions. Those networks are now starting to produce what China envisioned.

Between 2013 and 2019, Chinese companies signed contracts for US…

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