Projects promote fairness as supreme value

China should stop other countries from politicizing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the "Belt and Road Initiative" by making the projects' strategic objectives clear to the world and ensuring they function transparently and efficiently. This is vital because through these "go-global" initiatives, China can help make international rules fairer.

Handling international relations responsibly does not mean only helping a country with funds; it also means providing more public products to meet people's needs and cultivating developing countries' agenda-setting abilities in international politics. Through the AIIB and "Belt and Road Initiative" frameworks, China needs to guide the international community's discussions and limited resources in a direction that would boost developing country's growth and restructuring, and benefit their people.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in 2010 issued an overall regional inter-connectivity plan, estimating that the more than 700 projects would need $380 billion in investments. The problem is that, when it comes to providing funds, some countries and international organizations always find excuses not to do so.