OBOR and the Silk Road Ethos

Ling, L. H. M.; Perrigoue, Alisha C

doi:10.1177/2057891117753771

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“…Indeed, the concept of sovereignty itself could evolve. Sovereignty could shift to an ability to negotiate borders rather than stay trapped by them (Ling and Perrigoue 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One source of transformation may be China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), announced in Kazakhstan in 2003. It articulates new norms of international relations based on the principles and spirit of the ancient Silk Roads (Ling and Perrigoue 2018). Critics may charge that the BRI is merely a cover for the same old power politics, but the policy is still too young for a definitive judgment.…”

Section: Liminalities For China and Japanmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Popular culture and politics: re-narrating the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute

Ling

Nakamura

2019

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Narrative, we argue, can (re)construct social reality. Alternative imaginaries of 'being in the world' can lead to alternative ways of 'doing in the world'. We discuss the current dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands as an example. Westphalian logic would have the two countries come to blows, if not go to war, over the Islands. The Westphalian account of the dispute centres on the key principle of sovereignty. But what if we utilized a different imaginary to re-narrate the conflict? We turn to popular culture in both Japan and China as a guide, and juxtapose two anime, Appleseed and Time of Eve, with one Chinese TV drama, Nirvana in Fire. Each of these upends conventional analyses of the Islands dispute and offers alternative conceptions of sovereignty. We conclude by considering the implications of such alternative imaginaries for the study, if not practice, of international relations. 1 In September 2012, the Japanese government purchased eight uninhabited islets from private ownership, calling them the Senkaku Islands. However, China also claims sovereignty over the same islands, calling them the Diaoyu Tai (Global Times/Xinhua 2012). See Drifte (2003, 2014) and Hunt (2017). 2 Rumours claim that rich oil reserves lie underneath these islets. Others cite the islets' 'strategic location' in the middle of international shipping lanes and fishing grounds (The Economist 2013). 3 Beijing and Tokyo have each increased their military budgets due to tensions in the East

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“…Indeed, the concept of sovereignty itself could evolve. Sovereignty could shift to an ability to negotiate borders rather than stay trapped by them (Ling and Perrigoue 2018).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Liminalities For China and Japanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Popular culture and politics: re-narrating the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute

Ling

Nakamura

2019

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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“…The long, arduous, scenic, adventurous, death-stricken, aweinspiring routes mandated interdependence but also reverence for wisdom and insight, learning from the signs and the esoteric, and a basic degree of humility and adaptability that led to a non-individualistic, non-predatory way of life. We call it the Silk Road Ethos (Ling and Perrigoue, 2018).…”

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“…One source comes from al-Ghazali (450-505 AH/1058-1111), one of Islam's great thinkers from the 12th-century. In a chapter titled, 'On the Manners Relating to Eating' (Book XI), in his celebrated work The Revival of the Religious Sciences, al-Ghazali sought to codify acceptable behaviour under the norms of Silk-Road hospitality (Ling and Perrigoue, 2018). We extract four instructions as a sample (Al-Ghazali 2014: 14-42):…”

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Three-ness: Healing world politics with epistemic compassion

Ling

2018

Politics

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Epistemic compassion can help to heal world politics. It mitigates almost six centuries of Eurocentric ‘epistemic violence’ and ‘epistemicide’ with a trialectical epistemology that bridges even seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Buddhists call this process Interbeing. I draw on Daoist yin/yang dynamics for epistemology and the ancient Silk Roads as an exemplar. Subsequently, I apply this analysis to a watershed development in our contemporary political economy: China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI). A $1 trillion investment scheme to link China with Europe and Russia through Central Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, the BRI provokes charges of reproducing Europe’s 19th-century’s Great Game on a 21st-century scale. A trialectical epistemology offers another mode and model of global interaction for the BRI. It highlights the possibility of local agency and global responsibility for the BRI. I ask: Can epistemic compassion turn this 5.0 version of Asian Capitalism into a 2.0 version of the Silk Road Ethos? The potential exists, I argue.

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“…Part of the large-scale Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the "16+1" is tasked with facilitating the projection of the BRI to the CEE region. To varying degrees, all CEE countries participating in the "16+1" mechanism have shown that apart from the "hardware" of investment opportunities provided by the BRI, their engagement with Beijing is also driven by the "software" of ideas and values that backstops China's connectivity projects (Kavalski 2006cLing 2018Ling and Perrigoue 2018). For instance, the Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán was speaking for many of his counterparts when at the closing of the 2016 "16+1" summit in Riga he declared that while the EU "is struggling with the problem of economic stagnation, isolating ourselves from the world would be the worst response.…”

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central and Eastern Europe

Kavalski¹

2018

AISR

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The Central and East European (CEE) part of the Eurasian landmass is often overlooked in the conversations on contemporary geopolitics. Yet, owing to China’s investment in the CEE countries, the region has been subject to growing strategic attention. This article offers a brief overview of the history of this relationship by focusing on the “16+1” mechanism. Nestled within the broader Belt and Road Initiative, the “16+1” has provided a unique regional arrangement for extending Chinese influence in the sixteen CEE countries. The article inquires whether there is something else than the instrumental economic reasoning for the willingness of CEE countries to partner with China. The analysis detects four distinct (and mutually exclusive) strategic narratives motivating the participation of CEE states in the “16+1” mechanism. The study concludes with an enquiry on China’s preparedness to respond to such identity geopolitics not only in the CEE region, but throughout the vast expanse covered by the BRI initiative.

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OBOR and the Silk Road Ethos

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Popular culture and politics: re-narrating the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute

Popular culture and politics: re-narrating the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute

Three-ness: Healing world politics with epistemic compassion

China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central and Eastern Europe

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