Summary: Heads up infrastructure investors and those involved in thematic investment strategies. In his new book, The Silk Roads, historian Peter Frankopan asserts that China is reestablishing a modern-day network of its historic silk roads that connected much of the world and fostered the spread and integration of culture and commerce. This time, though, China is expanding its influence in the form of a trillion dollars in global infrastructure projects in an effort to supply its own vast need for resources of all kinds, and to reestablish itself as the world’s dominant global power.
