Dante Schulz serves as a Research Assistant with the Caspian Policy Center. He completed his B.A. at The George Washington University with a double major in international affairs and history and minor in Chinese. He is interested in studying China’s increasing presence in global affairs through the Belt and Road Initiative along with its implications for neighboring countries. At CPC, he focuses his research on great power competition, Chinese-Central Asian relations, and invigorating the private sector to participate in the Caspian Region’s investment portfolio. Dante is a former intern for the Inter-American Dialogue where he analyzed Chinese investment in Latin America and former research assistant for a National Science Foundation grant affiliated with Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Psychology and Education.