Experts discuss how the United States, particularly in Asia, was standard setter through which other economies had to adjust and accommodate.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become the organizing foreign policy concept of the Xi Jinping era.

During the first meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Sunnylands Estate, Xi proposed the concept of a “new type of great-power relations” as a framework for the bilateral relationship. Since then, numerous questions still remain as to how this concept will play out.