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China's Belt and Road Initiative

In this paper I look at the broad perspectives on China;s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative that is set to dominate its economic and political relations viz.a.viz others states and how it is being used by China to propel itself to a path towards global hegemony along with the geopolitical, geo-strategic aspects of the initiative. Although it has been stated as an initiative by the Chinese, it informs all vital elements of its strategic interests. I also look at its implications for India and some points of contention that New Delhi needs to realize if it wishes to continue its own ambitious policy goals.

Making Sense of Five Years of China's Belt and Road Initiative

Future Directions International , 2019

Over the past five years, China has invested a significant amount of diplomatic capital in launching and promoting its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Chinese leadership and stateowned media have projected the BRI as a brand-new Chinese initiative to foster transcontinental physical, economic and digital connectivity. Since its launch in 2013, however, the initiative has taken complex twists and turns, generating a mix of optimism and apprehension around the world. With Italy, a G7 country, endorsing the BRI, the debate about the initiative's promises and pitfalls has only intensified. While the United States, Japan, Australia and India often signal that the BRI is a strategic initiative with revisionist

China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative: New Round of Opening Up

2015

China's "One Belt, One Road" Initiative has become a priority in Beijing's foreign policy. Other countries, especially China's neighbours, should not hesitate to capitalise on the opportunities it provides. But can China fulfil its ambition? Commentary CHINA'S PRESIDENT Xi Jinping put forth the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road proposals, also known as the "One Belt, One Road" Initiative, during his visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013 respectively. Since then, the "One Belt, One Road" grand project, also known as the "Belt and Road" (BRI), has become a priority in China's foreign policy drive.

Belt and Road Initiative of China

Asia-Pacific - Annual Research Journal of Far East & South East Asia

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) also recognized as One Belt and One Road (OBOR) is currently renowned external policy initiative of China for regional connectivity. It is a massive infrastructure and transportation project. The study attempts to understand this initiative in broader perspective in terms of big changes at regional and global level. This paper argues that BRI is not just a project of building roads and bridges, but it will simultaneously heighten strategic and economic capability of China. Furthermore, it argues that, China’s quest to enhance regional connectivity will be purely based on economic activities. In the meantime, Beijing will use its fiscal leverage to influence the policies of aligned countries to line up with its interests. This paper addresses three main questions: What is the significance of BRI with emphasis on its main objectives? How does this initiative help advance China’s interests? What are the expected challenges to BRI?

Belt and Road Initiative: A Spirit of Chinese Cultural Thought

China is going to establish a world's biggest economic platform that is known as Belt and Road Initiative. It will connect the world and Win–Win is a slogan of mutual cooperation, respect and community of common destiny. It will expand perfect harmony by ancient Chinese philosophy. The " harmony " is a harmonious relationship between a self and its object. This relationship could be spread through the aspect of harmonious coexistence among the people of BRI nations and their social environment.

China's Belt and Road Initiative: at the crossroads of challenges and ambitions

Pacific Review, 2018

Interpretations of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) mostly agree that it is a policy opening that offers some remedies for China's economic and security challenges, as well as reflects China's increasing regional and global ambitions. This paper argues that the multiple drivers characterizing the BRI result from the multiple identities of China as a developing country struggling with several sources of instability and macroeconomic problems and, simultaneously, a regional and an emerging power, and finally a major global power with the significant economic capacity to shape the global economic order. The paper aims to substantiate the entanglement of the defensive and ambitious motivations behind the BRI by examining the background against which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership has suggested it. In so doing, it draws on Chinese official policy documents and statistics, speeches from Chinese leaders, and existing social-scientific research on the transformation of China's economic and political landscape in recent years.

Background and Strategic Significance of the " Belt and Road Initiative " of China

Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the initiative of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road in 2013 (hereinafter referred to as the Belt and Road). The paper aims to analyze the background and the significance of China's " Belt and Road Initiative ". And it finds out that the " Belt and Road Initiative " has profound international and domestic background and it has strategic significance to China's geopolitical and economic security, energy security, RMB internationalization, economic transformation and upgrading, etc.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative Revisited: Challenges and Ways Forward

China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies

Compared with other Chinese-proposed multilateral institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is not yet fully institutionalized. Still, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by many Asian and African countries, though less so by Western ones, Japan, and Russia. This is not only because of the expected economic benefits being Asian- and African-centric, but perhaps more importantly, because of the BRI having potential to be an exceptional Eastern model that may become universal. Up to the recent times, the flow of religions, doctrines, ideas and ideologies has mainly been from the West to the East, often accompanied by Western colonialism. Now, if the BRI is successfully implemented, for the first time in history a model of Eastern origin may affect the West and the rest of world. Unlike national liberation movements which had achieved political but not economic independence,...

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Contours, Implications, and Alternatives

2019

Over the past few years, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has generated substantial interest amongst various countries, irrespective of their individual approaches to sustainable growth in their national policies. There is either an increasing keenness to collaborate with China in this initiative or to maintain a guarded and cautious approach