Exploring a new development direction of the Belt and Road Initiative in the transitional period towards the post-COVID-19 era

Lee, Paul Tae–Woo; Song, Zhaoyu

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2023.103082

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“…They argue further that China finds ways to minimise investment costs from its perspective without much consideration of the costs implied for host countries. Further Lee and Song (2023) confirm the foregoing argument by highlighting possible contingency plans to secure logistics distribution centres along the BRI against likely disruptions from the contemporary political and economic events across the globe, including the Russia-Ukraine war, diplomatic crises and reshoring from China. While China seems to make deliberate contingency plans, SSA countries, which depend on Chinese imports through the BRI corridors, have not provided with any guidance.…”

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“…In addition, lack of transparency in some of the BRI projects casts doubts about their economic value to the participating countries many of which are from SSA (Githaiga and Bing, 2019). Therefore, more research is required in the area of governance and international cooperation regarding BRI, even as Lee and Song (2023) suggest the necessity for a post-Covid-19 investment direction.…”

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Impact of China's belt and road initiative on logistics management in Africa: a bibliometric analysis

Luke,

Mageto

2023

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PurposeThe belt and road initiative (BRI) emanates from China and seeks to connect Europe, Asia and Africa through transport and telecommunications infrastructure. Despite the importance of Africa in the BRI network, very little research has been done on the BRI in Africa, and even less of this emanates from Africa itself. In particular, considering that the BRI investments in Africa are largely transport related, there is almost no research covering the area of logistics, which should be greatly affected by the infrastructure investments. This paper sought to establish the current state of logistics research related to the BRI in Africa.Design/methodology/approachA bibliometric analysis was conducted on documents extracted from the SCOPUS database.FindingsThe findings indicate that there is a lack of research in critical areas such as environmental, social and economic impact of BRI transport investments, governance, logistics performance and international cooperation. In particular, there is a massive gap in local knowledge regarding the BRI.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to published research indexed in the SCOPUS database. Future research directions include empirical studies into BRI project initiation investigation, economic and environmental impacts, governance structures and policy intervention requirements and macro-level logistics impacts.Practical implicationsThe study emphasises the importance publishing all the relevant information regarding BRI related projects in Africa to create transparency.Originality/valueThe study investigates the current research on the effect of China's BRI on transport and logistics in Africa through a bibliometric analysis. The investigation reveals that while there are huge investments in infrastructure, the actual effect on logistics of participating countries in Africa has not been interrogated.

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Impact of China's belt and road initiative on logistics management in Africa: a bibliometric analysis

Luke,

Mageto

2023

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“…At that time, the implementation purpose of the BRI policy was officially expanded to the field of environmental protection by participating countries. Then the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020-2021 led to the decline or even stagnation of various international cooperation projects advocated by BRI [64]. Therefore, the effective time for the implementation of the BRI green development policy is less than two years.…”

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China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment and the Environmental Performance of the “Belt and Road Initiative” Countries

Gao

2023

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Since the launch of the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) in 2013, China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has grown rapidly. Moreover, the environmental protection issues introduced by these investment behaviors to BRI countries have attracted widespread attention from the international community. With the unbalanced panel data of 66 BRI countries from 2006 to 2020, this paper studied the impacts of China’s OFDI on the environmental performance of BRI countries from a systemic and partial perspective. We found that from a systemic perspective, China’s OFDI is conducive to the improvement of the comprehensive environmental performance of countries along the “Belt and Road”. From a partial perspective, the environmental performance influences of China’s OFDI in countries along the “Belt and Road” are threefold: (1) China’s OFDI can help mitigate climate change; (2) China’s OFDI improves wastewater treatment capacity; and (3) China’s OFDI has no significant impact on air quality. Therefore, China’s OFDI needs to continue its efforts to promote and improve the environmental performance of BRI countries to achieve their sustainable development goals. Some BRI developing countries should gradually change their extensive economic growth models; reduce their share of high energy-consuming, high-pollution, and inefficient industries in the national economy; and expand the proportion of their environmentally friendly industries while refraining from improving environmental performance by imposing high environmental pollution taxes.

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“…For example, some authors emphasize the interplay between the BRI and maritime militarized interstate disputes in Southeast Asia (Wu, 2023) or China-US trade conflicts causing the reshoring of foreign companies' production lines from China (Lee & Song, 2023).…”

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“…It impacted global supply chains, international logistics, and transportation, halting or slowing BRI projects. At the same time, China has faced challenges caused by its economic, socio-demographic, and global political structural changes (Lee & Song, 2023).…”

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The “Sea Factor” in Regional Cooperation: The Impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Ківалов

2023

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The "sea factor" has a crucial influence on coastal states' domestic and foreign policies, and may create additional incentives for regional cooperation and integration. The Russo-Ukrainian War, the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, has become a stress test for many regional transport and infrastructure projects. Moreover, this armed conflict has had different effects in different cases. For the Three Seas Initiative, the Russo-Ukrainian war became an additional incentive to strengthen cooperation. It gave the initiative new meaning and even stimulated its expansion through the decision to grant partner status to Ukraine. At the same time, this conflict had negative consequences for China 's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The war also led to the emergence of another area of cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

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Exploring a new development direction of the Belt and Road Initiative in the transitional period towards the post-COVID-19 era

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Impact of China's belt and road initiative on logistics management in Africa: a bibliometric analysis

Impact of China's belt and road initiative on logistics management in Africa: a bibliometric analysis

China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment and the Environmental Performance of the “Belt and Road Initiative” Countries

The “Sea Factor” in Regional Cooperation: The Impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War

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