So while the BRI may be attacked as a gargantuan, ill-coordinated, multi-trillion-dollar Chinese geopolitical project, the cold hard reality is that the only counterprogram launched by the US during the Trump years was a single $100 billion loan program called the Build Act. The BRI, by contrast, had by 2021 funded some 2,600 projects across one hundred countries at a cost of $3.7 trillion.
