One Belt, One Road and the Road not Taken
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 9:53 am
This guest article was written by William Laraque who is the Managing Director of US-International Trade Services.
“In a yellow wood, two roads diverged…” ~ Robert Frost
With One Belt, One Road or OBOR, China’s Xi Jinping spells out China’s avenue (pardon the pun) for continued economic prosperity. The belt of OBOR runs through Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece and Russia.
The road, which counterintuitively runs along China’s traditional sea routes to Asian, African and Western markets, proceeds through the pirate-infested areas of the Strait of Malacca, the Horn of Africa, off of Somalia, to Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea, past ... (read more)