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China’s expanding role beyond its traditional strategic focus in East Asia has profound implications for Europe and the United States, whether the major expansion in Chinese outbound investment or its growing presence in the arc of instability that runs from China’s western western borders to Europe’s periphery. GMF’s “China Goes West” project draws together analysis on issues ranging from the Belt and Road initiative and the West's strategic response to the Belt and Road initiative and Sino-Russian relations.