The belt and road initiative in Southwest China: responses from Yunnan province

Summers, Tim

doi:10.1080/09512748.2019.1653956

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“…We also analyze the impact of national attributes such as religion and culture, language sharing, national GDP, R&D investment, and government foreign trade system on the economic network of the manufacturing industry along with the "Belt and Road." Summers analyzed the comparison and development trend of labor-intensive and capital-intensive product trade in the bilateral trade structure, and the results showed that the trade development is not balanced, and the long-term development and importance of foreign trade make it stronger than Vietnam in the scale and growth efficiency of export trade, while Vietnam is more prominent in the promotion of product categories and the restructuring of export trade through labor security [11]. For example, the labor force has a certain advantage for both countries' trade development, and the advantageous effect is diminishing, and both countries are facing the bottleneck of technology development [12].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Evolution of Service Trade Network Structure and Influence Mechanism in Countries along the “Belt and Road” with Big Data Analysis

Yang

Tsai

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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With the accelerating process of economic globalization, the deep adjustment of the international industrial division of labor, and the continuous upgrading of the global value chain, the development of the service industry has entered into a new historical period. This study analyzes the dynamic evolution of trade network structure at three levels: macro, mesa, and micro, and empirically explores its influencing factors. Taking national service trade as the research object, this study analyzes the topological structural characteristics of the food trade network of “One Belt and One Road” countries by selecting indicators such as network point degree, average path length, trade intensity, intermediation degree, and aggregation coefficient, and further explores the characteristics of association network structure in national service trade network using block model. The topological structural characteristics of the “Belt and Road” trade network are analyzed from three aspects: overall, local, and individual. Then, we construct a regression model to analyze the factors influencing the dynamic evolution of the service trade network structure of the countries along the “Belt and Road” through the QAP method. Finally, based on the summary of the research findings, this study puts forward the corresponding considerations and policy recommendations from the perspectives of regional, directional, and reciprocal investment, to benefit more efficient and strategic national service trade under the framework of “Belt and Road.” Based on the results of this study, this study proposes the following policy recommendations: firstly, actively promote the service trade cooperation with other countries to optimize the market layout; secondly, promote the service industry reform to extend the length of the value chain and improve its position in the value chain; and thirdly, jointly promote the infrastructure construction of “Belt and Road” with other countries, promote trade liberalization, and reduce the trade volume. Secondly, we should promote the reform of the service industry, extend the length of the value chain, and improve our position in the value chain. Finally, we should vigorously promote the development of innovation, promote the two-way opening of new service industries, adhere to the “going out” strategy, and cultivate high-quality and excellent technical talents, to promote the overall improvement of the innovation-driven capacity of the service industry with a people-oriented approach.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Evolution of Service Trade Network Structure and Influence Mechanism in Countries along the “Belt and Road” with Big Data Analysis

Yang

Tsai

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…For instance, Chinese investments abroad in mineral extraction, timber and other natural resources are subject to the rapidly changing conditions of local extraction, trading practices and production networks operating within the world economy (Mohan and Urban, 2019;. At the same time, economic interests and structural changes at the provincial level are crucial factors shaping China's external economic relations (Shahar and Lee, 2016;Summers, 2019;Xu, 2014).…”

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Theorizing China-world integration: sociospatial reconfigurations and the modern silk roads

Mayer

Zhang

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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This paper develops a spatial perspective to examine the nature of China's transnational influence, focusing on the implications of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for international relations. Drawing upon political economy, regional studies and critical geopolitics, we argue that the most interesting puzzle concerning the BRI pertains to the ongoing reconfigurations of political space. Contemporary sociospatial reconfigurations as analyzed through a multidimensional framework offer key insights into the operations and the extent of China's growing global power in general and with respect to the BRI in particular. We draw on a broad range of materials such as maps, Chinese academic and policy discourse as well as observations about corridor projects to theorize a) how the spatiality of global and regional connectivity is reconfigured through the process of China's integration with the world; and b) how corridorization as a dominant physical and ideational process shapes Chinese investment projects and reconfigures state spatiality along the BRI. The results indicate that the main territorial pattern is not the nation or the region but the corridor. Furthermore, expansionist and unidirectional stories of China's growing power overlook the local encounters and negotiations necessary for infrastructure projects to succeed. In addition, China's economic statecraft is contextualized within the ongoing post-financial crisis political-economic restructuring of territories, places, and scales within the global capitalist system.

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“…In unitary systems, however, subnational diplomacy plays a strictly subordinate or complementary role. Recent literature on China's paradiplomacy has pointed out that while the external affairs powers of Chinese provinces have increased, provincial governments remain discreet in conducting external engagements, and will not violate foreign agendas implemented by Daksueva and Lin (2018), M. Li (2019), and Summers (2019. Audrye Wong (2018) further argued that Chinese provinces tend to pursue their external interests through "trailblazing," "carpetbagging," and "resisting" national foreign decisions.…”

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Chinese Paradiplomacy: A Theoretical Review

Liu

Yao

2020

Sage Open

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This article presents a review of the theoretical and empirical studies of paradiplomacy produced to date, focusing on the literature on subnational diplomacy in China, specifically. It argues that the analytical frameworks of previous paradiplomacy studies lead their focus to be restricted to a very limited aspect of the phenomenon only. Moreover, previous studies focusing on the engagement of Chinese provinces in world politics mainly relied on the central-provincial frameworks and susceptible to a geographic bias. This article contributes to the existing literature in two ways: first, by improving the existing framework to better reflect the most essential dimensions of the international actorness of subnational actors and second, by expanding the geographical scope of the study of paradiplomacy to include more non-Western, centralized political system. It presents one of the first academic attempts to systematically review the existing literature regarding paradiplomatic theory and the paradiplomatic activities in China.

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The belt and road initiative in Southwest China: responses from Yunnan province

Cited by 35 publications

References 24 publications

Dynamic Evolution of Service Trade Network Structure and Influence Mechanism in Countries along the “Belt and Road” with Big Data Analysis

Dynamic Evolution of Service Trade Network Structure and Influence Mechanism in Countries along the “Belt and Road” with Big Data Analysis

Theorizing China-world integration: sociospatial reconfigurations and the modern silk roads

Chinese Paradiplomacy: A Theoretical Review

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