As China presses ahead with its globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Australia, the United States and Japan appeared to strike back with their own plan to fund regional infrastructure projects.
But the announcement on July 31 seemed only to confirm the difficulties of trying - or appearing - to compete with China's massive trillion-dollar scheme.
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