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New Map of the Belt & Road Reveals a Much More Intricate Chinese Trading Network

by Eric Claude Olander

A trio of scholars in China recently published an academic paper in the Journal of Contemporary China that included a much more detailed map of China’s Belt & Road trade routes in Asia than previously available.

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