Myopic U.S. policies pave way for China's dominance; Underwrite Consolidation of Eurasia

``Even as this country founders with a misguided fiscal retrenchment that will leave it ill-equipped to face global competition in coming decades, China is spending hundreds of billions on highways, rail lines, and pipelines to knit together a Eurasian landmass that a longstanding theory of geopolitics sees as the key to a genuine world empire.''