One of the more exciting opportunities for investors and enterprising young professionals is the Belt and Road Initiative and for yonks, it has been hard to find a book that can summarise it well for Western audiences. Worse, I heard that the analysis coming out from China was overly optimistic about its prospects, so The Emporer's New Road is a welcome addition to an investor's library. I don't a have the academic training to really appreciate the work, as I suspect that a student of political science can possibly benefit from having a framework to arrange all the information shared in the volume, I will do my best to share three points I picked up from reading this volume. a) Somehow major rivals must fight each other. Almost every book on geopolitics must reference the rivalry between China and the US and no expert will rule out the possibility of a...