Xi Jinping’s Marco Polo Strategy

Last month, Chinese President Xi JinpingXi Jinping presided over a heavily orchestrated “Belt and Road” forum in BeijingBeijing. The two-day event attracted 29 heads of state, including Russia’sRussia Vladimir PutinPutin, Vladimir, 1200 delegates from 100 countries. called China’sChina Belt Road InitiativeBelt Initiative (BRI), (BRI) the “project century.” 65 countries involved comprise two-thirds world’s land mass include some four half billion people.