Does Brexit Influence China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative?

Heiduk, Günter

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03245-6_11

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“…The narrative of prosperity and employment opportunities has been powerful, especially as it is framed as the only alternative for the ethnically diverse East London that has one of the highest unemployment rates in the capital and has been hardly hit both by prolonged austerity and the COVID‐19 pandemic as local activists emphasised during our discussions. It nonetheless neglects to mention that despite the rhetoric of job creation available evidence suggests that so far Chinese companies play the key role in the project (Heiduk 2018). It also ignores that the area’s regeneration is not only dispossessing the public from the potential of an open, accessible and truly welcoming urban space but it could also bring the displacement of low‐income people that has been a defining characteristic of gentrification processes within and beyond the Docklands.…”

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Tracing the Links between Infrastructure‐Led Development, Urban Transformation, and Inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Apostolopoulou

2020

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In this paper, I explore the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban transformation and inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I theorise the BRI as a spatial fix to the overaccumulation problems of Chinese capitalism and I pay particular attention to the role of urbanisation. By drawing on postcolonial geographies, my goal is to offer a relational analysis of divergent trajectories of socio‐spatial urban change driven by BRI projects in Athens, Colombo and London. My key argument is that urban transformation driven by the BRI signals the emergence of a new form of infrastructure‐led, authoritarian neoliberal urbanism. This engenders both new urban formations and new urban politics that, despite variegated expressions across different contexts, are reconfiguring urban space and are transforming the social geography of each city by creating, facilitating or exacerbating spatial fragmentation and social segregation.

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Tracing the Links between Infrastructure‐Led Development, Urban Transformation, and Inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Apostolopoulou

2020

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“…The British government claims to be a 'natural partner' of China and has consequently welcomed the BRI as a stimulus to intensify Sino-UK relations. For example, there are four BRI projects in the UK, which are the Yiwu-London freight train route, the Hinkley nuclear power plant, the development of a new business district on the grounds of the London Royal Albert Dock, and the use of the City of London as a top-tier financial centre for financing BRI projects (Heiduk, 2018). However, these projects will have reverberations of Brexit, as the UK will lose its place as an economic, social and cultural centre of the EU.…”

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“…In the post-Brexit period, China's BRI strategy for the EU could lead to increasingly rapid infrastructure investments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which could encourage Chinese corporations to move production to this region. Subsequently, Sino-UK trade can be diverted from land transport to passage into the Arctic Sea (Heiduk, 2018). Secondly, BRI investments in the UK energy sector have not yet been reduced.…”

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Brexit and its Impact on the Co-Operation Along with the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road—Assessment from Port Governance

2022

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Since the Brexit happened in January 2020, it is likely to impact the United Kingdom (UK) and the whole of Europe in different ways. The UK and other European countries will revise their preferences concerning fisheries, ports access and governance, and bilateral diplomatic relationships with the countries alongside the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR). However, this is not an end to uncertainties, but the beginning to show the double-edged effects of Brexit. This paper focuses on the opportunities and challenges for Sino-UK as well as European Union (EU) relations arising from Brexit. The present study considers Brexit’s impact on the MSR countries, especially China, Pakistan, and India. It examines what Brexit means for the Sino-UK/EU relationship, politically, economically, and culturally. It concludes with the potential impacts of Brexit on Sino-UK/EU trade relations, maritime security, marine resources usage, the safety of navigation, port governance and cooperation, and suggests the appropriate strategies that can be put in place to capitalise on opportunities to reap benefits while mitigating the challenges.

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Does Brexit Influence China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative?

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Tracing the Links between Infrastructure‐Led Development, Urban Transformation, and Inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Tracing the Links between Infrastructure‐Led Development, Urban Transformation, and Inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Brexit and its Impact on the Co-Operation Along with the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road—Assessment from Port Governance

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