China's Belt and Road Initiative

Good simple explanation and balanced enough.

 

Consider New Deal after WW2 built 35 million homes and 50,000 miles of highway while China was asleep. They are playing catch up of sorts.

 

new meaning :





belt means land transport

road means maritime transport

and

???? means air / space transport

 

Yeah you could call the New Deal America's socialist undertaking.
At that time, Japan was invading China while it was in the midst of giving birth to a nation, pitting the elite nationalists against the poverty stricken peasants and laborers under the communist banner. And the rest is history.

 

its achievement vs China, not its politics - pay attention

 

It's because your comparison is ridiculous.