Lack of infrastructure remains a critical bottleneck for developing countries to deliver steady economic growth.
Take the African continent as an example. According to an African Development Bank estimate, Africa's infrastructure needs are between 130 billion and 170 billion U.S. dollars per year, but there is a financing gap in the range of 68 billion and 108 billion dollars.
China has been a vigorous champion of boosting connectivity by helping developing countries build up infrastructure through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is aimed at infrastructure development and acceleration of economic integration of countries along and beyond the routes of the historic Silk Road.
If implemented fully, the initiative could lift 32 million people living on less than 3.2 U.S. dollars a day out of moderate poverty, a recent World Bank Group study on the BRI found.
Last but not least, the international community needs to leverage a stronger connective power to tackle such non-traditional security challenges as climate change and terrorism that no single country, no matter how powerful it might be, can handle alone. There is no second option in this regard.
When the ambitious Magellan was on the sea, he and his fellow sailors faced all sorts of hardships. But they always managed to charge forward because they knew they were right in the direction.
Today, decisions-makers around the world, instead of being tempted to retreat to the past of isolation, should remain in the same spirit as that of Magellan and his seamen, and harness the connective power to heal this dividing world and build a cohesive and more prosperous global community.
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