When Sen. John Curtis was in Zambia last week with a bipartisan group of congressional colleagues, he saw firsthand the difficulty of competing with China.

Speaking to a room full of employees at Strider Technologies, a Utah-based high-tech strategic intelligence firm, Curtis spoke about the need for the United States to do a better job of competing with China’s growing international influence.

China has pursued a focused global strategy called the Belt and Road Initiative for more than a decade. They’ve built influence while buying up property and investing in infrastructure in developing nations across the world.

China is Africa’s largest trading partner and is also the continent’s largest creditor, according to the World Economic Forum .

Meanwhile, the United States has, at time

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