Belt and Road is focused on energy, infrastructure, and transportation with an overall potential investment estimated at about $1.4 trillion—a scale never before seen and at least seven times larger, measured in today’s dollars, than the Marshall Plan, the U.S. initiative to rebuild Europe after World War II.7 It is not just physical goods that China is seeking to export to Eurasia and the world beyond; it is also aspects of China’s own economic model.
