Title: Belt and road : a Chinese world order /
Authors: Maçães, Bruno
Year: 2018
Subjects: Yi dai yi lu (Initiative : China); International economic relations; Infrastructure (Economics) China; Investments, Chinese Foreign countries.; World politics; China Foreign economic relations; China Foreign relations; China Politics and government; China
Abstract: China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Most importantly, it symbolizes a new phase in China's ambitions as a superpower: to remake the world economy and crown Beijing as the new center of capitalism and globalization. Bruno Maçães traces this extraordinary initiative's history, highlighting its achievements to date, and its staggering complexity. He asks whether Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century?
Contents: What is the belt and road? -- Nuts and bolts -- The belt and road and the world economy -- The belt and road and world politics -- The world after the belt and road.