Inclusive globalization: unpacking China's Belt and Road Initiative

Liu, Weidong; Dunford, Michael

doi:10.1080/23792949.2016.1232598

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“…The BRI pledges a massive 1 trillion USD investment through the "China model" of foreign assistance, which stresses infrastructure (for example, health, energy, transportation, and information technology) and trade. 4,17,18 Importantly, the BRI's leadership and intersectoral coordination mechanism for timely evidence and information sharing is crucial for improving regular risk assessment and operational platforms to increase surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation locally and for cross-border screening-with isolation/quarantine measures and management facilities and access to quality diagnostics and medicines-to enhance vulnerable populations' health and wellbeing. It is also important for mutual support in the early detection of biothreats and adversities, for rapid response capacity development, for strengthening social mobilization and risk communication strategies for public awareness and empowerment, for reinforcing infection prevention and control/precautions, and for access to personal protection equipment in healthcare settings across Sino-African countries.…”

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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

Tambo

Khayeka–Wandabwa

Muchiri

et al. 2019

Global Health Journal

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The unprecedented globalization of trade, travel, climate change, protectionism, and geopolitical populism, as well as pandemic health threats are no longer issues for a single nation. In the field of public health, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers immense opportunities for partnership and collective actions involving multiple countries to combat globalization-linked infectious and/or chronic diseases, emerging pandemics, and outbreaks of potential threats to both laboratory information management systems and health information management. The national and global health challenges have increasingly proved that economic prosperity cannot be achieved when huge knowledge and capacity gaps exist in health systems. There is thus a need for public health initiatives aimed at strengthening the health systems beyond sovereign borders to influence global geo-economics. We highlight situational insights that offer approaches and strategies for increasing public health investment and capacity development in the countries along the Belt and Road, enhancing public and global health cooperation alongside participation in disease control and elimination, promoting public health governance and data sharing for pandemic threats, and building shared values and benefits in public health through Sino-African cooperation and the BRI. Our approach also examines the values of the China's BRI in relation to public health, projections and initiatives for increasing new investment and development capacity in public health systems, and enhanced public and global health cooperation and participation toward the BRI's framework and scope.

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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

Tambo

Khayeka–Wandabwa

Muchiri

et al. 2019

Global Health Journal

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“…The “Belt” stands for the Silk Road Economic Belt and the “Road” stands for the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The initiative is a call of China for new modes of regional economic cooperation under the trend of development of economic globalization (Liu and Dunford ). As an important section of the ancient Silk Road, the continuous advance of the Belt and Road Initiative is a major opportunity for the development of industrial economy in Gansu.…”

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Spatial Pattern Analysis of Regional Water Use Profile Based on the Gini Coefficient and Location Quotient

Liu

Jia

Niu

et al. 2019

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Water resources have become a barrier hampering socioeconomic development. Changes in the spatial distribution of water use profile have direct impacts to regional water use efficiency. However, the related research is inadequate, and a more suitable way to analyze regional water use profile is necessary. The Gini coefficient and location quotient, two reliable methods commonly used in discussing the spatial distribution of elements, were introduced and calculated. Taking Gansu Province as the study area, the concentration effect of industrial water use was the strongest, followed by domestic, environmental, and agricultural water use. However, a balanced distribution of agricultural water use failed to be coordinated with the production conditions, the center of Gansu’s grain production should be established to enhance the scale effect of agricultural production. The industrial agglomeration effect remained weak, and each region’s dominant industries need to be developed vigorously. Gansu’s domestic water use was consistent with its population distribution, but it is necessary to reduce the water use gap between urban and rural areas. With a growing awareness of environmental protection, environmental water use exhibited a more balanced distribution. Overall, the methods are simple and have good applicability, and the results can provide a reference in water use optimization.

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“…Much of the rhetoric draws on the "spirit" of the historic silk roads around mutually beneficial trade and cultural exchange (Clarke, 2017;Liu & Dunford, 2016;Rolland, 2017). The official CCP literature on the BRI and language used by top officials stresses the inclusivity of the policy, emphasising openness, cooperation and win-win solutions that facilitate strong and green domestic growth in host countries.…”

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“…Indeed, the opaqueness of the BRI vision, Narins and Agnew (2019, p. 2) argue, has been fostered deliberately to create a "useful fuzziness" that leaves leaders opportunities to craft "a new, as of yet undefined, geopolitical identity in the future." Discussions on the BRIits underlying motivations and its possible implications for global and regional developmenthave tended to focus on the policy either as a geopolitical strategy intended to solidify China's position as a global power and to align its neighbours politically and economically to the county's strategic priorities, or as a political economic project designed to export a model of infrastructure-led growth and provide a spatial fix for China's chronic crisis of overproduction and surplus liquidity (Cheng, 2016;Flint & Zhu, 2019;Liu & Dunford, 2016;Overholt, 2015). Although analysis of the BRI is starting to broaden thematically, there is nevertheless a tendency in the literature to focus on the role of nation-states.…”

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China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation

Williams

Robinson

Bouzarovski

2019

Geographical Journal

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China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is heralded as the largest investment in infrastructure in history and is expected to re‐shape the geographies of urbanisation in the coming decades. In this paper we review the burgeoning, yet still embryonic literature on the BRI. Our aim is to move beyond currently dominant framings of the BRI as a geopolitical or economic strategy that tend to overlook the complex embeddedness of infrastructure. Drawing on theories of planetary urbanisation, we argue that the BRI constitutes a form of urbanisation that is bound up with the socio‐spatial and ecological restructuring of global capitalism. We illustrate this by mapping and analysing energy projects under the BRI. Overall, we outline a research agenda on the BRI that calls for (1) a more nuanced analysis of its spatial and scalar politics; (2) approaching the BRI as a distinctly urban question; and (3) a disruption of the dominant China‐centric discussions through critical in‐depth case‐study analysis.

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Inclusive globalization: unpacking China's Belt and Road Initiative

Cited by 341 publications

References 12 publications

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Incorporating public health measures toward global economic growth and shared prosperity

Spatial Pattern Analysis of Regional Water Use Profile Based on the Gini Coefficient and Location Quotient

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation

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