INFRASTRUCTURAL competition is one of the key issues in the Indo-Pacific region (also known as the Asia-Pacific region) as geography plays an important role in geopolitics. It is expedient for nations to convert political geography into a functional one in the age of infrastructural war.

In this globalized and interdependent world, the most connected power is likely to have the maximum leverage in international politics. China understands that and engages in the multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), involving infrastructure development and investments across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.