Coupling national geo-political economic strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative: The China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park

Liu, Zhigao; Dunford, Michael; Liu, Weidong

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102296

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“…Importantly, the BRI's unfolding enrolls multi‐scalar actors in host countries that occupy differentiated positions in global production networks, in order to achieve what Liu et al. (2021, p. 1) refer to as the ‘coupling of national geopolitical economic strategies’. The spatial (re)arrangements of certain sovereign conditions in host countries make possible BRI's enacting of transnational economic arrangements for infrastructure connectivity, industrial investment, resource development, urban restructuring, and increased trade and financial cooperation (Gonzalez‐Vicente, 2019).…”

Section: Bri As Project: State Market and Geopolitical Economymentioning

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Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Cheng

Apostolopoulou

2023

Geography Compass

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In this paper, we survey the expanding body of literature on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Chinese and Anglophone geography, and locate the main lines of development. The emerging scholarship approaches the BRI as a spatial discourse and examines the production of geographical reasoning in statecraft. It also links up with studies of the BRI as both a material project and an everyday experience. We argue that it is in this combined understanding of BRI's multiple registers, as discourse, project, and experience, that a trilectical approach for future geographical engagement can be identified as the BRI edges to its second decade.

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Section: Bri As Project: State Market and Geopolitical Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Cheng

Apostolopoulou

2023

Geography Compass

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“…Industrial parks are an important platform for Chinese foreign investment, with more than 30% of Chinese enterprises being concentrated in industrial parks in various countries [27,28]. China's overseas industrial parks dataset collected by Li et al included 182 industrial parks [29].…”

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Operation Status Comparison Monitoring of China’s Southeast Asian Industrial Parks before and after COVID-19 Using Nighttime Lights Data

Niu

et al. 2022

IJGI

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COVID-19 has had a huge impact on many industries around the world. Internationally-funded enterprises have been greatly affected by COVID-19 prevention and control measures, such as border controls. However, few studies have examined the impact of COVID-19 on internationally-funded enterprises. To this end, this paper considered 12 of China’s industrial parks situated in Southeast Asia, while comparing the operation status before and after the outbreak of COVID-19 based on remote sensing of nighttime lights (NTL). The NTL is generally used as a proxy for economic activity. First, six parameters were proposed to quantify and monitor the operation status based on NTL data. Subsequently, these parameters were calculated for the parks and for 10 km buffer zones surrounding them to analyze the differences in operating conditions. The results showed that (1) despite the negative impact of COVID-19, 9 out of the 12 parks had a mean NTL greater than 1, indicating that these parks are in better operating condition in 2020 than 2019; (2) 7 out of the 10 km buffer zones around the parks showed a decline in mean NTL. Only three parks showed a decline in mean NTL. The impact of COVID-19 on surrounding areas was greater than the impact on parks.

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“…The Soft Power 30 report highlighted that 'what sets the One Belt, One Road initiative apart is that, for perhaps the first time in the contemporary era, China has managed to combine the hard power of its economic muscle with the soft power of a cooperative, inclusive narrative that emphasizes shared prosperity and regional development' (Portland, 2017, p. 18). Yet questions remain regarding how different regions respond to this 'emergent geo-political economic culture' (Liu et al, 2021). For Shambaugh (2015), 'money' has been the strongest instrument used by Beijing to appeal its potential partners, whereas Putten et al (2016) believed that China's official approach to promote BRI is a matter of public diplomacy, a narrative formation around the 'inclusive', 'transformative' and 'complementary' benefits across Eurasia and Africa.…”

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Understanding the soft power of China’s Belt and Road Initiative through a discourse analysis in Europe

Miao¹

2021

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Taking a spatially sensitive approach to evaluating China's quest of soft power, this paper conducted a media discourse analysis of European countries' perceptions of China's growing international influence in general, and its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in particular. Preliminary analysis reveals regional diversity in media coverage of the BRI that was partially caused by a country's position as a 'discourse leader', 'discourse responder' or 'discourse follower'. In terms of the contents, this paper noticed a huge discrepancy among the European countries towards the potential impacts of the BRI and China's rise in international affairs, and recorded a shift from a rather positive to a cautious attitude among the European Union's leaders. It is suggested that China's spatially blind approach to using soft power to promote BRI in Europe may be partly to blame for its limited success so far.

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Coupling national geo-political economic strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative: The China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park

Cited by 37 publications

References 43 publications

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Operation Status Comparison Monitoring of China’s Southeast Asian Industrial Parks before and after COVID-19 Using Nighttime Lights Data

Understanding the soft power of China’s Belt and Road Initiative through a discourse analysis in Europe

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