Liu Yangsheng, senior fellow of the Taihe Institute, said in the interview that the Belt and Road Initiative is based on the needs, requirements and the seeking of the local countries involved. Its success lies in the construction of an elaborate infrastructure that supports the movements of goods, services, people and ideas. Liu said that many "alternatives" put forward by the West are aimed at rounding up more allies against China. But this doesn't work. These are empty promises just like the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. That framework was a piece of paper then, and it's still a piece of paper today.