尽管如此，虽然“一带一路”倡议显然是部分是由战略目标所驱动的，但成本效益分析表明其经济意义也极大 — — 大到有人或许会质疑为什么中国不早点执行。
Nonetheless, while the Belt and Road initiative is clearly driven partly by strategic objectives, a cost-benefit analysis shows that the economic case is also very strong – so strong, in fact, that one might ask why China didn’t undertake it sooner.