Straddling the Kazakh-Chinese border, a collection of cranes, railways, and buildings rises out of a barren stretch of desert surrounded by towering mountains to form the backbone of the Khorgos Gateway, one of the most ambitious projects in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, Beijing’s sprawling infrastructure project.īeijing hopes the “dry port” here-where Chinese freight will be reloaded onto Kazakh trains to make the 5,000-plus-mile journey to Europe-will expand land-based trade across Eurasia. KHORGOS, Kazakhstan-To better understand the future of China’s role in Central Asia, and the world, you need to come here, the middle of nowhere.
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