Infrastructure project collaboration across borders will yield mutual benefits. However, finding ways to work together will be vital for its success.

Since it was announced in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative has promised an infrastructure bonanza for countries across Southeast Asia, Central Asia and beyond. The vast programme offers ambitious road, pipeline, telecoms, rail and port projects that aim to super-charge intra-regional connectivity and facilitate more commerce between China, the rest of Eurasia, and Africa. In the shorter term it also promises a construction boom.