The restructuring of global supply chains has caused a collapse in the Far East. Experts believe that the problem will not be resolved quickly and consumers will face shortages of goods and price rises.

Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.