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China's Belt and Road Project: What's at Stake for Xi Jinping

The recent Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation that took place in Beijing is China’s claim to a more prominent role in determining the rules of the game on a global stage. But in the unpredictable world of Chinese politics, the forum was as much about President Xi Jinping’s standing and an attempt to curtail speculation that he is not in total control.

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 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.

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.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Global Politics and Implications

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a global infrastructure development project that ambitiously aims to connect Asia with European and African continents through land and sea corridors. China adopted this gigantic game-changing master plan in 2013 and spurred much speculation among scholars and policymakers worldwide. This article investigates the development of the project through the lens of global political geography and economy. From an international relations perspective, the author consults relevant pieces of literature and focuses on the international issues and events concerning the development of the project using concepts of ideas, interests, and institutions within the scope of geopolitics and political economy. The analysis is performed by reviewing critical events and arguments related to the ideas, interests and institutions evolving around the implementation of BRI. Drawing from the analysis, the author argues that the rise of China as a dominant global superpower largely depends on the success of the BRI, and this initiative will continue to generate politics among the international actors, multinational entities, and institutions. Despite widespread speculations, the project poses a substantive threat to the USA's global dominance and is likely to create more global development cooperation under Chinese leadership and vision.

Belt and Road Initiatives (BRIs): Understanding China’s Intentions Behind It

European Journal of Law and Political Science

BRI is regarded as the most aspiring foreign and economic policy initiative of President Xi’s legacy. At the same time, Beijing has the overarching objective to achieve its geopolitical goals by economically binding China’s neighbouring countries through this initiative. Some Scholars are cynical regarding the success of BRI as planned by President Xi’s administration, urging caution for both China and the countries involved. President Xi’s exceptional overt emphasis on protecting China’s national interests that transpired into their newly formed foreign policy approaches has demonstrated that China’s commitment to peaceful development is not without conditions. China’s commitment to a peaceful rise will also be further conditioned by the many externalities, namely international and regional interest, domestic priorities, security dilemmas, power conflict, and conflicting core national interests from participating members, which in turn can be reciprocated with antagonistic strategi...

Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative

2021

The year 2013 saw the launch of the largest, most influential investment initiative in recent memory: China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This globe-spanning strategy has reshaped local economies and regional networks, and it has become a contested subject for scholars and practitioners alike. How should we make sense of the complex interactions that the BRI has enabled? Understanding these processes requires truly global perspectives alongside careful attention to the role that local actors play in giving shape to individual BRI projects. The contributions in Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity provide both 'big picture' assessments of China's role in regional and global interactions and detailed case studies that home in on the role agency plays in BRI dynamics. Written by leading area studies scholars with diverse disciplinary expertise, this book reveals how Chinese efforts to recalibrate...

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.