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One Belt, One Road – China’s new grand strategy

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Does the ‘One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative’ represent a mere nostalgic rhetoric, summing up a wider range of policy initiatives, based on two different regional levels, or is it a bold statement of China’s new geopolitical grand strategy? In its geographic focus the ‘OBOR initiative’ comprises locations which are already within the Chinese government’s focus of interest – Central Asia and Southeast Asia with an extension to Europe, as a primary destination for its exports. Consequently, the ‘OBOR initiative’ can be viewed as a framework of existing political-economic interests of the Chinese government that are aligned to a wide range of different policy proposals. Following such a line of argument one may understand OBOR as the emergence of various processes of regional and sub-regional integration dynamics in which the Chinese leadership will take a more active role. Conversely, one may emphasise the qualitative and explicit adaptions within the ‘OBOR initiative’ that constitutes China’s contemporary geopolitical grand strategy. A final salient point that is demonstrated here, is that this initiative shows that geography continues to shape geopolitics even though we are living in a supposed globalised world.

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  • Christian Ploberger, 2017. "One Belt, One Road – China’s new grand strategy," Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 289-305, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jocebs:v:15:y:2017:i:3:p:289-305
    DOI: 10.1080/14765284.2017.1346922
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    1. Weiqing Song, 2019. "Logic of the Chinese developmental state and China’s geo-economic engagement with Central and Eastern Europe," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 387-401, December.
    2. Fayin Xu, 2019. "The Belt and Road Initiative and Globalization:The Perspective of Globalization-Constituting Theory," Global Economic Observer, "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economic Sciences;Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy, issue 1, June.
    3. Yelena Andreyeva & Andrei Maltsev & Mikhail Maslennikov & Artyom Ratner, 2018. "Global Economic Relations of a Region in the Investigations of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences," Economy of region, Centre for Economic Security, Institute of Economics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 1(2), pages 612-622.

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