The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Garlick, Jeremy

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“…The BRI is widely regarded as being unclear and vague (Garlick, 2019a), and thus it is important to study how it is being contextualised. This study follows the logic of framing analysis and sets out to classify how the media give a more precise meaning to the BRI.…”

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“…In the process, criticism and negative topics often discussed with China (such as the human rights record or perceived threatening foreign policy moves) are silenced to some extent (Jakimów, 2019). Although there is a vivid discussion when it comes to what goals China intended when launching the BRI (Garlick, 2019a), there seems to be a near consensus that the BRI was meant to serve at least to some extent as a vehicle of China's soft power. Articles directly linking the soft power concept with the BRI have appeared in Chinese media, including the Global Times (Massimo, 2018) and China Daily (Boboc, 2017), which indicates that the idea is officially sanctioned.…”

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The BRI and China’s Soft Power in Europe: Why Chinese Narratives (Initially) Won

Turcsányi

Kachlikova

2020

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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The article aims to contribute to our understanding of China’s soft power in Europe and the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in this regard. We conduct analyses of two leading newspapers in the United Kingdom, in Spain, and in Poland to discover how the BRI was framed there in the period from mid-2013 to mid-2017. The empirical results show that the media reported about the initiative quite positively – especially compared to the general media picture of China in Europe – and to a considerable extent followed Chinese narratives of economic opportunities while overlooking geopolitical and security worries. Theories of “journalistic routines” and linguistic “affective sticking points” will be suggested as possible explanations of these dynamics, highlighting both the fact that Chinese narratives outnumbered European ones in the initial period quantitatively, and were able to offer something that resonated with the audience qualitatively.

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Section: China's Image In Europe and The Role Of Brimentioning

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The BRI and China’s Soft Power in Europe: Why Chinese Narratives (Initially) Won

Turcsányi

Kachlikova

2020

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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“…As Zhou and Esteban (2018, 488) point out, it is a "multifaceted grand strategy", which is "not only driven by neorealist thought, but also shaped by constructivist and neoliberal logics that are, respectively, linked to power balancing, normative influence and institutional transformation." These complex theoretical underpinnings demand an approach to understanding the BRI which is analytically eclectic, requiring the use of concepts taken from a range of theoretical approaches Katzenstein 2010a, 2010b;Garlick 2020). Of necessity, given the inherent complexity of international affairs, these must account for economic and geographical factors as well as political ones.…”

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The dragon dithers: assessing the cautious implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Iran

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Havlová

2020

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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In the Belt and Road era, one would expect an increase in the amount of Chinese economic engagement with Iran due to its strategic position on the Persian Gulf and its rich oil reserves. Yet by 2020 a committed program of large-scale investment comparable to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) had not materialized in Iran. The article uses an analytically eclectic framework to examine the record of Chinese economic activity in Iran since the advent of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. The empirical analysis demonstrates that China uses a strategically hedged approach to economic engagement in the Persian Gulf incorporating ideational as well as material elements. Ideational elements include the BRI's intentional geographical "fuzziness" which enables it to act as a loose "policy envelope" for China's evolving foreign policy needs. Through its hedged approach, China aims to open up local markets to Chinese commercial actors and secure diversified oil supplies. At the same time, Beijing aims to soft balance against US regional hegemony while avoiding the appearance of a challenge to the regional status quo. China also hedges by attempting to maintain solid relations with as many regional actors as possible, including most importantly Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia, from whom China is receiving ever higher imports of oil. Data reveal that Chinese economic engagement with Iran has increased in the BRI era, but at a slower rate than in some other BRI partner countries and not at the expense of its relations with Saudi Arabia.

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“…One recalls a comparable book written by Garlick (2020) that critically examines the BRI and its potential impacts on a wide range of issues by developing a theoreticalmethodological approach and applying concepts from mainstream International Relations (IR) to assess the regional impacts of the BRI. The authors of the present volume impressively sketch some potential damages to environment due to megascale BRI projects across the regions under the scope of the book.…”

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The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Cited by 22 publications

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The BRI and China’s Soft Power in Europe: Why Chinese Narratives (Initially) Won

The BRI and China’s Soft Power in Europe: Why Chinese Narratives (Initially) Won

The dragon dithers: assessing the cautious implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Iran

Book review: Pradumna B. Rana and Xianbai Ji, China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Impacts on Asia and Policy Agenda

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