US 'late' in pushing Blue Dot to counter China's Belt and Road

Infrastructure certification with Japan and Australia taps into debt trap fears

20191121 Blue Dot Network and Belt and Road Initiative

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The world's two biggest economies have competing visions for developing infrastructure globally. (Nikkei Montage/ source photo by Reuters)

FRANCESCA REGALADO, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- A U.S.-led scheme to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative remains in the embryonic stage -- six years after Beijing unveiled its grand infrastructure plan with great fanfare.

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