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The “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “China Dream” Relationship: A Strategy or Tactic

Author(s)

Xing Li, Wan Wang

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2015.03.001

Affiliation(s)

Beijing Normal University, China

ABSTRACT

The “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “China Dream” are tightly linked together rather than isolated from each other. The essence of the construction of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” is to give equal considerations to both the East and the West, paying equal attentions to the North and the South, while balancing the land and the sea and connecting domestic with foreign. This is the innovation and priority of China’s peripheral diplomacy as well as a strategic support and tactical guarantee of the “China Dream”. The “Silk Road Economic Belt” is constructed to make history serve reality; it exchanges economy for politics, space on land for time at sea, and balances a weakness in sea power with superiority in land power. Instead of simply replicating the Silk Road, the “Silk Road Economic Belt” possesses a broader realm and a richer context. Moreover, this is China’s ultimate strategy and profound tactical conception facing toward the future.

KEYWORDS

“Silk Road Economic Belt”, “China Dream”, the center of Eurasia, strategy, tactic

Cite this paper

Sociology Study, March 2015, Vol. 5, No. 3, 169-175

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