Acknowl­edgments This book benefits from the advice and in some cases spirited discussion with numerous experts in government, private industry, think tanks, and academia who took valuable time from their busy ­ careers to talk to me about the ­Belt and Road Initiative and the broader United States–­China relation- ship. Thank goodness, some of them tolerated my barging into their busy lives more than once! This book benefited enormously from ­ these conver- sations and allowed me to deal with a topic that seemed to be in continu- ous movement even as I was writing the book. It goes without saying that any errors and omissions are entirely due to my negligence, not my interlocutors, most of whom are listed ­here. A few, ­ because of the sensitivities of their position, wished not to be listed by name in this book. To all of them, I owe a very special thanks. ­ There is no question that my interlocutors ­were enormously helpful and a source of firsthand information. They inspired me. But the conclusions I came to are entirely my own. It would be a ­ mistake to link any conclusion to a par­tic­u­lar interlocutor, ­unless specifically quoted. ­ These interlocutors ­ were: Bonnie Glaser, se­nior adviser for Asia, and director, China Power Proj­ect, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Ching Ching Koh, Group Corporate Communications, OCBC Bank, Singapore Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. senator (R) Nebraska Richard Davey, associate director, the Boston Consulting Group Dhruva Jaishankar, Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings India Dr. Ishrat Hussain, former governor, Bank of Pakistan
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