Today China's hunger for iron ore pays for its infrastructure projects.
Britain is also broke and needs Chinese money for its infrastructure projects.
China, the region's dominant economic power, has faced criticism for using Chinese labor instead of local residents for its infrastructure projects.
Indeed Milan Bacevic, a Serbian government minister, has announced that China is to invest €10 trillion $13.5 trillionn) in the Balkans and central and eastern Europe and that Belgrade is to be the centre for its infrastructure projects.
Besides regulating the land-pooling policy, DDA is also committed to accountability and transparency by allowing the population to monitor its infrastructure projects online.
The White House has proposed spending just $5 billion toward its $1 trillion infrastructure project next year.
Pence, taking the stage shortly after Xi at the Asia-Pacific Economin CooPapua New Guineain Papua New Guinea, launched a pointed and wide-ranging criticism of China, not just over its commercial practices but also over its transcontinental infrastructure projects and military activity in the South China Sea.
Beijing also looks set to broaden its cooperation with Iran through its ambitious global infrastructure project, known as the One Belt, One Road initiative, as well as investments in Iran's nuclear energy sector.
It's no secret that the OpenStack Foundation has been looking to branch out beyond its eponymous cloud infrastructure project, which, until now, was always its sole focus.
Its transportation infrastructure projects include highways, roads, bridges and light rail, and its water infrastructure projects include water, wastewater and storm drainage systems.
