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Article
Silk Road Diplomacy: China Redefines Its Role on the Asian Mainland
Author(s)
Lang Kao
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2018.07.005
Affiliation(s)
Hang Seng Management College (HSMC), Hong Kong
ABSTRACT
This article proposes
how China is using Silk Road diplomacy to redefine its roles on the Asian
mainland. This undertaking will inevitably change geopolitical conditions along
the Silk Road corridor, and will affect the interests of major powers within
that region. For the past five years, Beijing has been vigorously promoting its
Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), the most ambitious foreign policy to be
adopted by China since Deng Xiaoping’s program of “reform and opening up.” This
is an enormous initiative that will require vast amounts of capital and
multilateral cooperation, so many risks will be encountered in the course of
its implementation. The objectives of the article are to: (a) explore the
ideas, goals, and strategies of Silk Road diplomacy from the constructivist
perspective; and (b) analyze the attendant difficulties, as well as how Silk
Road diplomacy is likely to affect the Silk Road countries and China’s Western
provinces.
KEYWORDS
Belt & Road Initiative, Silk Road diplomacy, China, constructivism, geopolitics
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