An article in today’s edition of China’s Global Times usefully reiterates what has been Chinese President Xi Jinping’s consistent message to the West: Join us in the Belt and Road Initiative, and all parties will win. The Global Times piece dismisses the endless slanders against China for its role in helping Africa develop through the Belt and Road Initiative, as “fueled by envy.” And it suggests instead that “perhaps it is now time that the Western countries upped their games,” and join in the development of Africa—and implicitly of the whole world.READ MORE