That’ll be great, except the routes go through some of the most politically unstable regions in the world.
I’m sure China will make the roads wide enough to accommodate tanks.
A bargain for them. And of course they can build infrastructure much more cheaply than we can.
The Silk Road existed and disappeared. Let us recreate route 66
Former U.S. Assistant Defense Secretary Chas Freeman described the Belt and Road project as "potentially the most transformative engineering effort in human history."
All seven Republican members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence signed a letter raising "concerns about Mr. Freeman's lack of experience and uncertainty about his objectivity".[9][28] Eighty-seven Chinese dissidents wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to reconsider the appointment.[29] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was said to be "incensed" by Freeman's alleged views of the Tiananmen Square massacre, reportedly urged President Obama against the selection.[30] Freeman responded that his Tiananmen Square remarks were taken out of context since they had represented "his assessment of how Chinese leaders had seen things".[9]
This is going to be just like the Bering Straits bridge.