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Nowhere is China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) more evident than in Eurasia, which spans from Central Asia to Eastern Europe. China is transforming this space with physical infrastructure, but also through political and societal engagement. China’s economic clout and the BRI’s land-​based component, the ‘Belt’, have already yielded considerable leverage and may allow Beijing significant leeway in shaping the region’s future. But only an assessment of China’s conduct on the ground will help reveal its true intentions and the effects of the transformation it has wrought.