TPP VS Belt and Road (B&R): Who really benefits?

... West depicts the B&R initiative as a neo-colonial stratagem, one only has to reprise Silk Route history for a reality check. The ancient maritime silk route was pivotal to the rise of the Malay Peninsula's most celebrated kingdom – the Malacca Sultanate. It was a place forged by transoceanic trade, particularly from India and China. "Chindia" was a Malaccan reality centuries before the term was coined. Indian, Chinese, Arabic and Persian customs, cuisine and words were organically ...