Belt, Road exporting China's know-how

NEW YORK - The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative is bringing the Asian country's infrastructure capital and knowhow to developing countries involved in its expansion, a renowned US scholar said.

"China has shown itself to be a vivid example of the benefits that can flow from the active hand of government in investment in infrastructural development," Sourabh Gupta, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for China-America Studies, said in a recent interview.

"As the Belt and Road Initiative is extended and expanded overseas, it will afford a similar foundation on which developing countries can jump-start their own development on lines achieved by China over the past three decades," he said.