grand design

If President Xi's grand design succeeds, Beijing will forge a unified market stretching 6,000 miles from the North Sea to the South China Sea, eventually encompassing 70% of all humanity, and effectively fusing Europe and Asia into a single economic continent: Eurasia.

“There is nothing like a so-called grand design between us and China,” he said.

"No one is being able to draw up a grand design with shifting of power."

Carter would say later that he never focused on winning a second term — to his political peril — just as he had no grand design to win his first.

Despite its grand design, “Victory City” remains surprisingly modest in tone.