The Emperor's New Road and the Trojan Economy Academic Blog · Geoeconomics & Global Infrastructure Series The Emperor's New Road Meets the Trojan Economy Reading Jonathan E. Hillman's ground-level account of the Belt and Road Initiative against a domestic framework for hidden market entry — and against the newest Bloomberg data on where China's infrastructure ambitions stand in 2026. Series · Comparative Political Economy Primary source · Hillman, The Emperor's New Road (Yale/CSIS, 2020) Cross-reference · "The Trojan Economy," Avant-Garde, July 2026 Data · Bloomberg Intelligence & Bloomberg Economics, 2026 01 Framing A Horse at the Border Crossing In 2013, Xi Jinping stood before an audience in Kazakhstan and described a vision that would eventually be called the "project of the century": a trillion...