China's flagship overseas infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative, is booming. The value of investment in construction contracts for the BarRi, increased three quarters to a record 213 billion in 2025. The spending increase highlights how the government in Beijing has sought to take advantage of wavering US influence around the world by pouring funding into development projects.Western government officials and analysts find the BarRi increasingly difficult to track and to analyze. This is becau ...