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One Belt One Road And East Africa: Beyond Chinese Influence

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Chinese Influence Given the significance of this region on a global scale, it should come as no surprise that China has also identified the Horn of Africa as a focal point for significant economic, political, and military growth opportunities, with the obvi-ous objective being to secure a foothold in East Africa, resulting in increased control and the strategic advantages therein. Of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), [1] known in China as the One Belt One Road[a] and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, [2] is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the government of China in 2013 to invest in more than 150 countries and international organizations. [3] In recent years, few initiatives by any nation, great or small, have received more atention than the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the People’s Republic of China. The BRI has been described by the Chinese government as “an initiative promoting eco-nomic prosperity and regional economic cooperation, principles of mutual consultation, joint construction and sharing, policy

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Introduction This special issue of the African Studies Quarterly is dedicated to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its impact on African countries. The contributions stem from a conference convened at the University of Florida and hosted by the Center for African Studies. It is the third issue focused on China-Africa relations. Previous issues focused on “Political, Economic and

Abstract China’s “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) Initiative forms the centerpiece of China’s leadership’s new foreign policy. The initiative aspires to put the nations of Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Africa on a new trajectory of higher growth and human development through infrastructural connectivity, augmented trade, and investment. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a transformative endeavor spearheaded by China to foster infrastructural, economic, and cultural linkages across continents, has entered its second decade with an evolving agenda that embraces both challenges and opportunities.

This chapter reviews how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is evolving. It begins with a discussion of the historical, economic, and geopolitical contexts in which the initiative was rolled out by Beijing in 2013. Through the BRI, China seeks to expand its diplomatic manoeuvring space, reclaim its past glory, provide infrastructure finance to neighbouring SUMMARY In 2013, China launched its ‚One Belt, One Road‘ (OBOR) initiative. OBOR is China’s broadly sketched vision of how it plans to boost regional integration in its wider neighbourhood. The initiative is unprecedented in terms of China’s financial engagement and the innovative network-based project design which is intended to contribute to a more inclusive global

This paper examines the African interface of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), identifying synergies between it and Africa’s development agenda. Particularly assessed is its capacity to converge with the African Union’s Agenda 2063’s Aspirations 2, 4 and 5. The paper argues that the BRI appears to have developmental implications for Africa in terms of

This special issue examines the impacts and implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Asian and European regions towards which the initiative is primarily directed. Introduced by President Xi Jinping in a pair of speeches in late 2013 (Xi, 2014: 315–324), and previously entitled “One Belt, One Road,” the BRI was conceived as transport corridors to China’s political and economic rise in the Middle East and North Africa is neither accidental nor merely a byproduct of declining Western

China’s Belt and Road Initiative , Significance and Challenges

With $900bn of planned investments ranging from ports in Pakistan and Sri Lanka to high-speed railways in east Africa to gas pipelines crossing central Asia, China’s One Belt, One Road project The Belt and Road Initiative: A Key Pillar of the Global Community of Shared Future The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China October 2023 Contents Preamble I. Proposed by China but Belonging to the Whole World II. Paving the Way Towards Shared Development and Prosperity III. Promoting All-Round Connectivity in Multiple What is Africa’s place in China’s global geo-strategy, or does it have one? China’s engagements with the continent have increased markedly in recent decades but does it occupy a central or peripher

The Belt and Road Initiative has had a significant impact on East African economic growth and industrial transformation. China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative (OBOR) or silk road initiative is often referred to as a Eurasian infrastructure network initiative, but it is in fact much more than that. The maritime silk road is supposed to go past the coast of East Africa,

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The One Belt One Road (OBOR) or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious project initiated by the Chinese president Xi Jinping. The project is aimed at connecting China with Central Asia, Europe and with the countries situated along the shore of the Indian and the Pacific Ocean.

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  • China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Introduction and Overview
  • Counterbalancing Chinese Influence in the Horn of Africa
  • China expands AI globally through the Digital Silk Road
  • The Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Hegemony in Africa
  • Analysing China’s One Belt One Road Initiative in Africa

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is poised to profoundly reshape the regional geographical landscape. While existing communication studies on BRI have focused on the official and media narratives to frame the initiative, the overall orientation of the topic in academic circles is not well understood. By conducting a bibliometric literature review, this paper addresses this

Abstract: One Belt, One Road (OBOR) is a Chinese-led initiative that seeks to enhance Eurasian economic connectivity through the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road. OBOR covers 58 countries and accounts for 65% of global economic production. The initiative is managed by the National Development and Reform Commission The Belt & Road Initiative is China’s greatest international economic ambition, aiming at stimulating economic development in a vast region covering sub regions in Asia, Europe and Africa, which accounts for 64% of world population and 30% of world GDP. The Initiative is devised to reconfigure China’s external sector in order to continue its strong growth. While

Abstract China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is expected to link the world to a gigantic trade and investment corridor, with China at the centre Introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative is a key feature of China’s foreign policy, consistent with Xi’s push to

One decade after China’s announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), theoretical and practical debates linger about the environmental impacts. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a Chinese trillion-dollar public policy and politico-economic strategy to advance globalization through the state-led cooperation in the areas of policy communication, facility connectivity, unimpeded trade, monetary circulation, and people-to-people understandings.

One Belt; One Road: A Way to Economic Growth in Africa.

His One belt, one road is one such initiative which constitutes a restart of better co-ordinated and robust push to expand China’s influence overseas. It is also linked with a domestic investment drive in which nearly every Chinese province has a stake. To that end and overall, such is potential from underlying structural complementarity between China and African countries that former World Bank

Relations between China and Africa began long before Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, then called One Belt, One Road; yidai, yilu) in 2013, later extended it to Africa and the whole world. 1 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) took advantage of African independence in the late 1950s and early 1960s to increase the number of its diplomatic One Belt One Road/(Yidai Yilu, 一带一路) or Belt and Road Initiative In 2013, China started the ‘B&R’ initiative with the aims of promoting international cooperation, connectivity, and international trade to facilitate harmonized global economic development (Muzapu, Havadi, &

This special issue examines the impacts and implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Asian and European regions China’s One Belt, One Road policy has focused global attention on Chinese infrastructure development projects throughout the nations of the Middle East and Western Indian Ocean.