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China's Largesse

Author : U. S. Military
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983257544
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book China's Largesse written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has China gained from its foreign aid and investment activity? Does the instrument China chooses reveal its political motive? Does Chinese economic statecraft present a challenge to U.S. national interest? To answer these questions, this thesis examines the history of Communist China's foreign policy in Cambodia and in Kenya since 1956 and 1964, respectively. China has delivered aid to, made investments in, and traded with both states, but the interests China has pursued, and the vigor with which it has pursued them, are different in each. In Cambodia, China has a rich and continuing record of intrusive political influence and military engagement. In Kenya, China's purchase of political influence under Mao has cooled considerably to become today's arm's-length trade and development relationship. This thesis concludes that Chinese economic statecraft buys political influence in Cambodia but not in Kenya, where aid is developmental and investment is driven by business opportunity. From both realist and liberal perspectives, China's economic statecraft presents a challenge to the interests of the United States. I. INTRODUCTION * A. MAJOR RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND FINDINGS * B. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH QUESTION * C. LITERATURE REVIEW * 1. Aid Outcomes * 2. Policy Objectives * 3. International Relations * D. POTENTIAL EXPLANATIONS AND HYPOTHESES * E. RESEARCH DESIGN * 1. Similarities between Cambodia and Kenya: History, Economy, and Resources * 2. Differences between Cambodia and Kenya: Geographic, Political, and Cultural Proximity to China * F. CONCLUSION * II. CHINA'S INTERESTS IN CAMBODIA * A. PURSUIT OF ONE CHINA * B. CAMBODIA AS A COLD WAR COUNTERWEIGHT * C. PURSUIT OF SOVEREIGNTY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA * D. PURSUIT OF DEVELOPMENT ON THE MEKONG RIVER * E. CONCLUSION * III. CHINA'S AID IN KENYA * A. AID IN THE 1960S: ONE CHINA, REVOLUTION, AND COLD WAR POLITICS * B. FREEZE AND THAW, 1965-80 * C. CHINA'S ECONOMIC STATECRAFT IN MODERN KENYA * 1. Aid * 2. Trade * 3. Foreign Direct Investment * D. CONCLUSION * IV. CONCLUSION * A. THREAT TO U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST * 1. Formulation of U.S. National Interest: Realism * 2. Formulation of U.S. National Interest: Liberalism * 3. U.S. National Interest and China's Economic * Engagement * B. HYPOTHESIS VALIDATION * 1. China Buys Influence with Foreign Aid and Investment * 2. China's Expansion of Influence Conflicts with U.S. Interests * 3. Choice of Financial Mechanism Reveals China's Intent * C. FURTHER RESEARCH * 1. Broader Scope * 2. Characterizing China as a Regional or Global Power * 3. China's Intent and the Supply and Demand of Foreign Aid * 4. Do Chinese Aid and FDI Chase Natural Resources? * 5. Is Kenya a Part of OBOR? * D. CONCLUSION

China’s Achilles’ Heel

Author : Srikanth Thaliyakkattil
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811384258
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book China’s Achilles’ Heel written by Srikanth Thaliyakkattil and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses Chinese discourse on Indian attitudes towards the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), and argues that the Indian discourse is becoming one of the biggest hurdles to China creating its own narrative about China’s rise in Asia and beyond. In doing so, it spans across the themes of the power struggle between China and US, China and India, the Chinese perception of India, China-South Asia relations, the China-US- India strategic triangle and the success and failures of BRI. The first part of the book focuses on the Chinese thinking behind the launch of the BRI and addresses questions related to the purpose of this initiative and ways in which it will facilitate China’s rise as a superpower. Subsequently the book addresses how effective or ineffective India’s challenge is and how it is negatively affecting China’s BRI.

The Future of China's Past

Author : Albert Welter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438491689
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Future of China's Past written by Albert Welter and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of China's Past examines how China's traditional culture is being reinvented and manipulated for political purposes. Like no time before in its recent history, and certainly at no time in the history of the People's Republic, China is being shaped in terms of its past, but which past—Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism, Buddhism—or combination of pasts is being held up as the model? Given its growing economic, political, and cultural significance, it is incumbent upon us to take China's rise seriously, yet perspectives involving modern and contemporary geopolitical and intrastate dynamics are insufficient, on their own, for understanding China's rise, and the same holds true for economic analyses, however pertinent. Instead, this book looks at current engagements with models of China's past, introducing the four traditional lenses of Chinese thought and reflecting on their potential relevance for China's—and the world's—future.

China’s Two Identities

Author : Theodor Tudoroiu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819728835
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book China’s Two Identities written by Theodor Tudoroiu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beijing's Global Media Offensive

Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197515789
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Beijing's Global Media Offensive written by Joshua Kurlantzick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local media, and information environments of both East Asia and the World. Since China's ascendancy toward major-power status began in the 1990s, many observers have focused on its economic growth and expanding military. China's ability was limited in projecting power over information and media and the infrastructure through which information flows. That has begun to change. Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At a time when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizing, professionalizing, and expanding in attempt to reach an international audience. Overseas, Beijing also attempts to impact local media, civil society, and politics by having Chinese firms or individuals with close links buy up local media outlets, by signing content-sharing deals with local media, by expanding China's social media giants, and by controlling the wireless and wired technology through which information now flows, among other efforts. In Beijing's Global Media Offensive--a major analysis of how China is attempting to build a media and information superpower around the world, and how this media power integrates with other forms of Chinese influence--Joshua Kurlantzick focuses on how all of this is playing out in both China's immediate neighborhood--Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand--and also in the United States and many other parts of the world. He traces the ways in which China is trying to build an information and influence superpower, but also critically examines the new conventional wisdom that Beijing has enjoyed great success with these efforts. While China has worked hard to build a global media and information superpower, it often has failed to reap gains from its efforts, and has undermined itself with overly assertive, alienating diplomacy. Still, Kurlantzick contends, China's media, information and political influence campaigns will continue to expand and adapt, helping Beijing exports its political model and protect the ruling Party, and potentially damaging press freedoms, human rights, and democracy abroad. An authoritative account of how this sophisticated and multi-pronged campaign is unfolding, Beijing's Global Media Offensive provides a new window into China's attempts to make itself an information superpower.

Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping

Author : Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317515773
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping written by Willy Wo-Lap Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for his coverage of China's elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping--General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November 2012. With rare insight, Lam describes Xi's personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through which he ascended, the configuration of power of the Fifth-Generation leadership, and the country's likely future directions under the charismatic "princeling." Despite an undistinguished career as a provincial administrator, Xi has rapidly amassed more power than his predecessors. He has overawed his rivals and shaken up the party-state hierarchy by launching large-scale anti-corruption and rectification campaigns. With a strong power base in the People's Liberation Army and a vision of China as an "awakening lion," Xi has been flexing China's military muscle in sovereignty rows with countries including Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines while trying to undermine the influence of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region. While Xi is still fine-tuning his art of governance, his zero tolerance for dissent and his preoccupation with upholding the privileges of the "red aristocracy" and the CCP's status as "perennial ruling party" do not bode well for economic, political, or cultural reforms. Lam takes a close look at Xi's ideological and political profile and considers how his conservative outlook might shape what the new strongman calls "the Great Renaissance of the Chinese race."

China’s Search for Energy Security

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317981197
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book China’s Search for Energy Security written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s rapid economic growth in the recent decades has produced an unprecedented energy vulnerability that could threaten the sustainability of its economic development, a linchpin to social stability and ultimately the regime legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as the foundation for China's rising power aspirations. What is the Chinese perception of the energy security and challenges, how has the Chinese government responded to the challenges? What are the international implications of China’s search for energy security? This collection of contributions by leading scholars seeks answers to these extremely important questions. The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents an overview of China’s sense of energy security and its strategic responses. Part II examines China’s energy policy-making processes, the efforts to reform and reorganize the energy sector and reset policy priorities Part III focuses on the international implications of China’s search for energy security. This book consists of articles published in the Journal of Contemporary China.

The iPINIONS Journal

Author : Anthony Livingston Hall
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532067496
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The iPINIONS Journal written by Anthony Livingston Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Events Hall takes aim at the global events of 2018 with a unique and refreshing perspective. Topics in this volume include the following: • President Trump displaying brazen hypocrisies—“Complaining about Trump’s hypocrisy is like complaining about a prostitute’s promiscuity.” • The Catholic Church covering up sins of pedophile priests—“These putative men of God cannot believe God exists. They must reason that, if he did, he would have stopped priests from systematically abusing children long ago. After all, what God would allow a criminal sex cult to flourish as a holy church in his name?” • Tiger Woods failing to win another major—“Tiger is becoming to PGA players what Hugh Hefner became to LA players: the most popular guy in the game who everyone knows can’t do it anymore.” • Caribbean leaders condemning “shithole” Trump—“Haitian migrants pose a heavy, unsustainable burden for the relatively small and poor countries of the Caribbean. This explains why, even though none have called Haiti a shithole, some Caribbean leaders have treated Haitians like shit.” • Meryl Streep hailing Harvey Weinstein as “God”—“That she said this is as much an indication of how far Weinstein has fallen from grace as it is an indictment of how much even Streep was beholding to his power and influence.” • Europeans doing more than Africans to solve Africa’s migrant crisis—“Only a symbiosis of European colonial guilt and African umbilical dependence explains why.” • Research showing the health benefits of bread—“No less an authority than the Bible decreed that bread and water are the staff of life. Which is why I hereby curse Atkins and his spawn of ketogenic false prophets in the name of God.” • Trump continuing bromance with Putin despite bipartisan criticism—“Trump is behaving like a teenage girl who was reprimanded by her parents for sneaking out for a booty call with a notorious bad boy. And she responds by sneaking that bad boy into her bedroom . . . and ends up pregnant.”

Southeast Asian Affairs 2022

Author : Daljit Singh
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN 13 : 9815011030
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Southeast Asian Affairs 2022 written by Daljit Singh and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is a must read.” – Suchit Bunbongkarn, Emeritus Professor, Chulalongkorn University “Now in its forty-ninth edition, Southeast Asian Affairs offers an indispensable guide to this fascinating region. Lively, analytical, authoritative, and accessible, there is nothing comparable in quality or range to this series. It is a must read for academics, government officials, the business community, the media, and anybody with an interest in contemporary Southeast Asia. Drawing on its unparalleled network of researchers and commentators, ISEAS is to be congratulated for producing this major contribution to our understanding of this diverse and fast-changing region, to a consistently high standard and in a timely manner.” – Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University

Where Great Powers Meet

Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190914998
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Where Great Powers Meet written by David Shambaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the foreseeable future. In the last two decades, however, the re-emergence of China as a major great power has called into question the geopolitical future of the region and raised the specter of renewed great power competition. As the eminent China scholar David Shambaugh explains in Where Great Powers Meet, the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant area--and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global "power transition" occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their competition. The United States continues to possess a depth and breadth of security ties, soft power, and direct investment across the region that empirically outweigh China's. For its part, China has more diplomatic influence, much greater trade, and geographic proximity. In assessing the likelihood of a regional power transition, Shambaugh examines how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its member states maneuver and the degree to which they align with one or the other power.

China's Asian Dream

Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786997444
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book China's Asian Dream written by Tom Miller and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘China’, Napoleon once remarked, ‘is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.’ In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken. From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to presenting itself as a world leader in the fight against climate change, a newly confident China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. With the Belt and Road initiative, billed as a new Silk Road for the 21st Century, China is set to extend its influence throughout Eurasia and across the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. But with the Chinese and US militaries also vying over the Pacific, does this newfound confidence put China on a collision course with the US? Combining a geopolitical overview with on-the-ground reportage from a dozen countries, this new edition of China’s Asian Dream engages with the most recent developments in the ongoing story of China’s ascendency, and offers new insights into what the rise of China means not only for Asia, but for the world.

China's Belt and Road Initiative

Author : Simeon Djankov
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
ISBN 13 : 0881327158
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book China's Belt and Road Initiative written by Simeon Djankov and published by Peterson Institute for International Economics. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's commercial ties with the outside world have long been symbolized by the ancient Silk Road, which began as a tortuous trading network of mountain paths and sea routes that provided a lifeline for the Chinese economy. Now the leadership in Beijing is reviving the concept with an ambitious plan to build and upgrade highways, railways, ports, and other infrastructure throughout Asia and Europe designed to enrich the economies of China and some 60 of its nearby trading partners. The so-called Belt and Road Initiative has generated enthusiasm and high hopes but also skepticism and wariness. And as big as China's ambitions are, many obstacles stand in the way. In this volume of essays edited by Sean Miner and Simeon Djankov, PIIE experts analyze the initiative's opportunities for China and the world, along with the logistical problems and political, economic, and security implications that have generated concerns.

Spy Mates: Operation Ace In the Hole

Author : Chuck Van Soye
Publisher : AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com
ISBN 13 : 1492754234
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Spy Mates: Operation Ace In the Hole written by Chuck Van Soye and published by AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Another rip-roarin' entry into the genre of Spy Fiction. Chuck Van Soye seems to be drawing on his military years as well as his knowledge of the oil situation from being an editor at Chemical Engineering. Or maybe he just has a great imagination. But it all sounds real to me!" - Barthélemy Banks, author of Mumm and Mumm's Curse. After 20 years working for the U.S. Army Research Center, Bret Lee, a 44-year-old chemical engineer, retires to look for work in private industry, only to learn that in the tough 2010 economy, he's unable to find a job. But thanks to a quasi-government contact from his past, he's offered high-paying employment at a Venezuelan fertilizer plant just outside Caracas. There's only one catch; he has to become a spy. Bret and his Chinese wife, Chu-Lin, accept the challenge, and both become enmeshed in the military, political and diplomatic aspects of life within the most dangerous city of the world. With help from the local CIA, Lee uncovers an international plot that could throw Latin America into turmoil, and that could strangle strategic oil shipments to the U.S. Life gets even more intense when he finds himself locked up by SEBIN, the intelligence arm of the Venezuelan government. In the 21st century poker game of international petroleum supply, China puts big money and a lot more on the game table to ensure that it will be the ultimate winner of Venezuela's oil production. But the Lees have an "ace in the hole," and their hand trumps China's plans. Spy Mates skillfully blends real-world tensions with a thrilling plot that will keep you enthralled.

Globish: How English Became the World's Language

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339777
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Globish: How English Became the World's Language written by Robert McCrum and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how Anglo-American has become the language of the world, and describes the changes that English has brought to far-away cultures in distant places.

Global Capitalism, Culture, and Ethics

Author : Richard A. Spinello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000549690
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Global Capitalism, Culture, and Ethics written by Richard A. Spinello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to deepen the reader’s understanding of the complex ethical and social disputes that corporations and managers face in an increasingly globalized world. It reviews the history and nature of global capitalism along with the role of the multinational within the global economy. Special attention is paid to emerging and frontier markets where there is economic potential but also major challenges due to institutional voids. Globalization is a constantly evolving field. In addition to exploring basic economic concepts and ethical frameworks, this second edition takes into account many new developments across different industries, ranging from "Big Tech" to "Big Pharma." It reviews some of the controversies that have affected those industries including bribery, censorship, the politics of computer networking, sweatshops, divestment, and the intensifying crisis of climate change. The book now includes short case studies to help spur creative reflection. Also, the revised content is highlighted in two new chapters – "Bribery and Corruption" and "Emerging and Frontier Markets." The book is ideal for use as a textbook on globalization, and specifically for courses that want to introduce a social responsibility or ethical component at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The Hungry Dragon

Author : Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135099979
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Hungry Dragon written by Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an up to date and accessible examination of China's global search for resources, focusing primarily on oil. This focus provides a powerful rationale to explain China's actions overseas, as it impacts on economic, energy and foreign policies. A strong feature of the book is a comprehensive examination of geopolitical issues. Three country case studies (Angola, Brazil and Cambodia) are complemented by two chapters on opportunities and risks to China, and an examination as to how strategies are developed into tangible actions. This book also examines a number of overlapping debates regarding the varieties of capitalisms (autocratic vs. democratic), the urgent need for rebalancing as the world undergoes global crises, and the issues surrounding natural resources in the context of governance, liberal-oriented notions and poverty traps. The book is aimed at general as well as specialized readers and examines the subject in relation to international affairs, especially how the geopolitics of scarcity is driving states to be tenser, more observant of each other, and more acute to foreign initiatives.

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Politics of Connectivity

Author : Bhumitra Chakma
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811928649
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Belt and Road Initiative and the Politics of Connectivity written by Bhumitra Chakma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses New Delhi’s reaction to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the rise of politics of connectivity and infrastructure building which has heightened Sino-Indian rivalry in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). It can be evidenced that the BRI has transformed the Sino-Indian dynamics from a ‘managed rivalry’ to an intense geo-political competition. It is contended that competition is inevitable when two powers rise in the same neighbourhood. The Indian government has opposed the BRI since its inception noting that the ‘BRI violates India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity’ because one of the flagship BRI projects - the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - runs through (Pakistan-controlled) Kashmir which India claims to be its own territory. It has consistently maintained that China’s ‘connectivity initiatives must be based on universally recognized international norms, good governance, rule of law, openness, transparency and equality, and must be pursued in a manner that respects sovereignty and territorial integrity’ of other states. Beyond those stated reservations, New Delhi is concerned about the BRI infrastructure and connectivity projects in the smaller South Asian countries and the Indian Ocean littoral states. India has traditionally viewed South Asia and the IOR as its backyard over which it has historically maintained a position of influence. It is apprehensive that the BRI projects will enhance Beijing’s stature and undermine India’s influence in the region. In eleven chapters including Introduction and Conclusion, this book explores the dimensions of the rivalry and analyses the causes, dynamics and implications of an accelerated Sino-Indian competition.