<em>China’s growing global role and increasingly hardline policies at home and abroad gain attention, the United States and other Western governments are also taking notice of China’s expanding influence in developing countries. The implications of China’s growing investments linked to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), its ambitious global infrastructure and connectivity program, are increasingly debated. So, too, are the nature of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) efforts to popularize its authoritarian model and undermine developing democracies around the world, whether intentionally or indirectly.1 In November, Vice President Pence noted that the administration, through its Indo-Pacific strategy, intends to bolster the rule of law and human rights in regional countries facing growing influence from China.</em>
<span>Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th U.S. President and lived during the 1800s. He was an author, a soldier and a leader. He saw the world around him based on the many things he learned during his life.</span>
From the 1600s to the mid 1800s, Japan isolated itself from
outside influences, and limited both its trade and relations with other nations
under what is called the sakoku policy, which is sometimes also called the “period
of national isolation”.
