Introduction to the Special Issue—China’s Belt and Road Initiative: the View from East Asia

Heiduk, Felix; Sakaki, Alexandra

doi:10.1007/s12140-019-09312-y

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“…Studies on the initiative can be broadly categorized into two levels: the political level, and the economic level. In the early stages of the Belt and Road Initiative, most studies focused on the political level [11][12][13][14][15][16]. However, with the gradual progress of the Belt and Road Initiative and its results, the proportion of studies on the economic dimension has increased significantly in the countries along the route.…”

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“…While these conclusions may seem tempting, not all countries endorsed the Belt and Road Initiative in its early stages, with some ASEAN countries expressing concerns, including the Philippines, Malaysia, and Myanmar, who were mainly concerned about the possible debt risks, environmental impacts, and geopolitical implications of the Belt and Road Initiative [11]. These countries aim to protect their national interests and regional stability, and to ensure the transparency and sustainability of the Belt and Road project, while remaining alert to the potential risks involved in cooperation with China, so as to preserve their sovereignty and realize sustainable development through collaboration [12,13].…”

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Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact: A Multi-Regression Model Based on Economic Interaction

Wang,

Xu,

Jin

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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This study examines the impact of joining the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the economies of ASEAN countries, focusing on the shipping industry’s performance. Ten economic interaction indicators were analyzed using data from 2015–2022 and predicting future data for 2015–2030 through GM(1,1) and FOA-SVR models. The principal component regression (PCR) model, combined with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), assessed the correlation of these indicators with GDP and port container throughput (PCT). The findings reveal a strong correlation between economic interaction scores with China and economic and shipping performance, highlighting Chinese investment’s significant impact on GDP and shipping connectivity’s substantial influence on container throughput. This study provides a framework for quantifying organizational engagement levels and policy effectiveness.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact: A Multi-Regression Model Based on Economic Interaction

Wang,

Xu,

Jin

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Taking the BRI as an example, most Western authors portray it as a geopolitical project or at least a process transforming the global geopolitical landscape (e.g. Blanchard and Flint, 2017; Flint and Zhu, 2019; Heiduk and Sakaki, 2019; Sidaway and Woon, 2017). In addition to BRI, other examples include the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BRICS, and international cooperation programs of China as mentioned by An et al (2021).…”

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Confucian geopolitics or Chinese geopolitics?

Liu

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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There has been a wave of discourses about Chinese geopolitics along with the quick rise of China, particularly with the Belt and Road Initiative and recent rivalry between the US and China. An et al.’s (2021) ‘Towards a Confucian Geopolitics’ opens a new door to such discourses. While welcoming the notion of hybrid Confucian geopolitics proposed by their article, this commentary raises several critical questions. These questions concern whether everything about China should be interpreted through geopolitical reasoning, whether Confucianism is fundamental and deterministic in contemporary Chinese culture, what is really special to new Chinese geopolitics if anything, and whether China’s Belt and Road Initiative can be understood as a cultural project. Answers to these questions may help to consolidate a new Chinese geopolitics.

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“…As the export market was hit after the beginning of the 2008-2012 global economic depression, joint policies were being implemented in line with innovation, and other similar development issues in China (Das, 2017;Durrani and Forbes, 2018;Jeganaathan, 2017). For example, "China already has an ambitious plan in its Industrial Masterplan 2025 [which] aimed at bringing at least 10 industries to world leadership" (Heiduk and Sakaki, 2019;Sheng, 2017). As a significant innovation in technology in the late 20 th century, the high-speed rail emergence has substantially decreased the travelling time among regions, suggesting considerable improvements at the transportation infrastructural level (F. Li et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, the BRI must endeavor to change the "Euro-Asia Great Game" from one that risks another major war to a sequence of gradual moves towards peace for more growth for the future generation (Sheng, 2017). Until now, China has avoided countries that are not peaceful and safe but with the exception of a few which it had earlier established strategic alliance before the BRI was established; Pakistan is one of these countries (Cheng, 2016;Heiduk and Sakaki, 2019).…”

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Defining the Building Blocks and the Priority Areas for Cooperation Under the Belt and Road Initiative

2021

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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a China’s endeavour to globally connect the countries along two major routes. This paper examines the keywords defining the building blocks and priority areas under the BRI and their relationship in order to foster a practical understanding of the BRI for enhancing regional cooperation and connectivity along the routes. The methodology employed was a systematic literature review involving four stages. Firstly, a broad search in the Scopus database (2016-2020) using BRI or similar terms returned n=1,710 articles which were further limited using the keywords: building blocks, priority areas, policy coordination, infrastructure connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration and people-to-people exchange. Other keywords considered were community and Silk Road. The articles were then screened and assessed resulting in 155 articles reviewed in this study. The review reveals that while the building blocks are the aim motivating the BRI, hence the spirit behind it, the five priority areas provide practical methods through which China and other countries along the Belt and Road routes will focus their collective development. The relationship between the two aspects owes to the fact that people are involved at all spheres of the initiative bringing about emphasis on the people-to-people exchange which is a core part of social dimension in sustainable development. In contribution, this paper presents a unique perspective for looking at the BRI for a focused discussion of its cooperative framework which could serve as a foundation for further research in various sectors

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Introduction to the Special Issue—China’s Belt and Road Initiative: the View from East Asia

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact: A Multi-Regression Model Based on Economic Interaction

Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact: A Multi-Regression Model Based on Economic Interaction

Confucian geopolitics or Chinese geopolitics?

Defining the Building Blocks and the Priority Areas for Cooperation Under the Belt and Road Initiative

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