Focus on intermediate zones
China DailySONG CHEN/CHINA DAILY As the US-China strategic competition has heated up in recent years, the United States has stepped up its criticism and attacks on the Belt and Road Initiative. The BRI improves economic connectivity on a transcontinental scale, enhances relations between China and other countries participating in the initiative, and strengthens political trust between China and intermediate zone states in a nonpredatory way, thus making important contributions to the reshaping of the global order driven by the collective rise of the Global South. Third, the US seeks to hold its traditional allies, partners and neutral states together via hyping up the same political values shared by Western nations, so as to undermine the common identity of China and other Global South countries, and to exert its influence in intermediate zone states. With the US mounting strategic pressure on China to pursue its unilateral interests, some intermediate zone countries have become more prudent in participating in BRI projects, resorting to a hedging strategy. This should prompt China to send clearer signals of its willingness to cooperate with intermediate zone states, thereby reducing the international community's misunderstanding and misrepresentation of China's global cooperation vision.
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