Imho the US should start something similar like OBOR to bind asia, africa and east europe to the west.
I see it quite the opposite. While there are some advantages to 'trade' as we all learn in econ 101, I think they are vastly offset from the perspective of the peeps on the ground by international traders sucking all of the value out of the system. That's 'globalization.'
Most of the various SE Asian nations have plenty of resources of one type or another. Certainly enough to give their people a decent quality of life if they are not being raped by globalists and the constructs they promote (e.g., corruption, drugs, terrorism, etc.)
I see it as a much more robust solution to be 'distributed'. Like 'bitcoin' vs. 'petro-dollar'. Each nation has their own cultures, interests, languages, security prerogatives, etc. Everyone leaves everyone else alone because the cost of fucking with one's neighbor and stealing their shit is to high.
On top of that, the U.S. in particular has sunk to the depths of depravity as evidenced by many of our actions around our empire. It would be crazy and suicidal for anyone to 'partner' with us. Similar for Europe who shows no compunction about joining in some of our most nefarious activities.
China already has a huge headstart in this regard and needs to be stopped with all might - else the next generation or the generation after will grow up with a global social credit system.
Our leaders here in the U.S. are chomping at the bit to implement the same 'social credit score' system. I find it likely that most of the development work is actually being done here, and China is but a test-bed where the kinks can be worked out. This because mainland China's totalitarian political system is conducive to forced implementation, and also because the peeps there in China have been brainwashed thoroughly for generations and a lot of them actually welcome the 'solution.'
I doubt that the technocratic 'full take' data gathering on individuals, and the 'social credit score' AI systems that are being rolled out in mainland China would go over so well in Taiwan, but I could be wrong. I simply don't know a huge amount about the Taiwanese.