Representative Gregory Meeks, chairman of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the case today in that provocatively titled Foreign Policy column where he echoed many of the same talking points that we’ve heard from the Biden administration for months about the opportunity to provide developing countries with an alternative to China by building infrastructure that’s “high-standard, transparent, and environmentally and financially sustainable.”
While B3W was designed from its inception to compete directly with China, Meeks nonetheless gave the obligatory nod at the end of his column about how the real focus of this initiative should be on the needs of developing nations and not Beijing – even though few, if anyone, in Washington really believes that.
What isn’t said in the Washington discussion about B3W
Ideals versus reality
Every B3W speech speaks of the need for
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