The silk road economic belt: balance of interests

Silin, Yakov; Kapustina, Larisa; Trevisan, Italo; Drevalev, Andrei

doi:10.1080/20954816.2018.1499072

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“…Many believe that Russia‐China cooperation is predominantly motivated by the efforts of the two emerging powers to safeguard the transportation structure via the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Eurasian Economic Union. On the other hand, the development of the Central‐Asian region (CAR) is expected to bring peace and stability in the Xinjiang region through the development of economic, trade, and energy (Silin, Kapustina, Trevisan, & Drevalev, 2018). Recently, Chand, Garcia, and Modlin (2019) highlighted that China has altered the current order of affairs in the Indo‐Pacific through its economic strength and assertive military power in the South and East China Seas, Indian Ocean, and Western Pacific.…”

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A comprehensive overview of China's belt and road initiative and its implication for the region and beyond

Rahman

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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The primary objective of this study is to present the background and overview of the Chinese belt and road initiative (BRI) project while exploring views, opinions, skepticisms, and challenges related to this initiative. President Xi Jinping initiated the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) to boost regional cooperation, which was later officially named as the One Built One Road (OBOR) or BRI. To this date, more than 65 nations from Asia, Europe, and Northeast Africa have joined the "BRI," to revive the old silk road. In an official document, "the Vision and Action of the OBOR," China plans to realize five cooperation and development plans, comprising of six intercontinental economic corridors. These projects are expected to bring collective economic growth in BRI member economies while keeping China at the heart of such development. The five main facets of "OBOR" cooperation include infrastructure connectivity, policy communications, finance, trade, and people-to-people bonds to encourage regional cooperation and mutual growth. 1 | BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 | One Belt One Road/(Yidai Yilu, 一带一路) or belt and road initiative In 2013, China started the "B&R" initiative with the aims of promoting international cooperation, connectivity, and international trade to facilitate harmonized global economic development (Muzapu,

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“…Another possible challenge to the BRI is the Chinese trading allies in Europe, except for Germany. Nearly five fully‐loaded trains (per week) enter Germany with Chinese products, while only one return to China with German goods (Silin et al, 2018).…”

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A comprehensive overview of China's belt and road initiative and its implication for the region and beyond

Rahman

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…This bilateral engagement has been enhanced since the SREB was synergized with Nurly Zhol (bright path), an economic initiative launched by the previous Nazarbayev administration, to receive a more considerable amount of Chinese investments (Silin et al, 2018, p. 307). The process of linking, or otherwise translatable as “pairing” ( sopryazhenie in Russian or duijie in Chinese), was enshrined in a joint declaration signed by President Xi and former President Nazarbayev in 2015 (Chubarov, 2018).…”

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China’s engagement with Kazakhstan and Russia’s Zugzwang: Why is Nur-Sultan incurring regional power hedging?

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Han

2020

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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Grappling with the contemporary topos of a Sino-Russian Entente, Kazakhstan is caught between a delicate long-term peer-competition and potentially a structural rivalry involving the two Eurasian Leviathans, China and Russia. Acknowledging this perspective, Nur-Sultan is inducing hedging dynamics, fishing for a better range of net benefits, while playing a significant fulcrum role central to the regional geopolitical and geo-economic matrix. Although Russia is retaining the prevailing role in the security domain, China is catching up with Russia in various economic indices, notably generated by the Belt and Road Initiative. Utilizing the conceptualization of hierarchy in international relations adapted from the work of David A. Lake, this paper outlines how Nur-Sultan’s interests and preferences are acknowledged by the respective dominants, as a basis for social contracting processes to generate a dual hierarchical order in Central Asia.

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“…Lai et al (2018) illustrated that BRI can build a cohesive spatial economic network integrating the multinational region on China's unique experience with its economic development and free trade zones. Silin et al (2018) found that the mutual benefit within the framework of BRI involves mainly international cooperation based on mutual benefits for all participants, the promotion of economic growth and welfare, and the development of modern infrastructure through joint investment. Unimpeded trade as one of the cooperation priorities of BRI is regarded as a significant driver of economic prosperity and regional cooperation among BR countries (Song et al, 2017(Song et al, , 2018.…”

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Has the Belt and Road Initiative Brought New Opportunities to Countries Along the Routes to Participate in Global Value Chains?

2020

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Using the data of 40 host countries during 2010 to 2017, we investigate whether the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has brought new opportunities to countries along the routes to participate in global value chains (GVCs). We employ a difference-in-differences (DID) method with propensity score matching (PSM) to solve the self-selection bias problem. The results indicate that BRI has a significant positive effect on promoting the countries along the routes to participate in GVCs, and the effect is lagging and fluctuant. Specifically, we find that the promotion effects are particularly significant in the second year of the BRI’s implementation. The heterogeneity analysis of Belt and Road (BR) countries shows that there remains a significant positive effect on developing BR countries as before, while the opposite is true for developed BR countries.

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The silk road economic belt: balance of interests

Cited by 13 publications

References 2 publications

A comprehensive overview of China's belt and road initiative and its implication for the region and beyond

A comprehensive overview of China's belt and road initiative and its implication for the region and beyond

China’s engagement with Kazakhstan and Russia’s Zugzwang: Why is Nur-Sultan incurring regional power hedging?

Has the Belt and Road Initiative Brought New Opportunities to Countries Along the Routes to Participate in Global Value Chains?

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