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This paper examines how China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI) will impact US interests and provides five recommendations for how Washington should respond to the project. These five are that the US should 1) acknowledge the potential benefits of the BRI, and establish mechanisms to monitor, assess and understand the initiative; 2) articulate red lines for when it will avoid or oppose projects; 3) identify how it can offer unique contributions to Asian economic development and the implementation of the BRI; 4) integrate the BRI into the framework for overall US-China relations; and 5) outline its own vision for global infrastructure development.