Chinese “Belt and Road Initiative” - The birth of a new hegemony?
Chinese “Belt and Road Initiative” - The birth of a new hegemony?
Author(s): Popescu Alba, Tiberiu TănaseSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: „Belt and Road Initiative”; „New Silk Road”; Xi Jinping; South China Sea; Indian Ocean; Sub-Saharan Africa; African-Eurasian Hegemony
Summary/Abstract: On the 28th of March 2015, the Chinese government published "VISION AND ACTIONS ON JOINTLY BUILDING SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT AND 21ST-CENTURY MARITIME SILK ROAD", China’s African - Eurasian hegemonic strategic transformation document. Though Beijing leaders have rejected aspirations of hegemony over the African - Eurasian continental mass, Chinese actions initiated in the Indo- Pacific area contradict official statements. Which are the main strategic directions of the "New Silk Road"? Is the Chinese “African - Eurasian bridge" only a pan-supra-continental economic program or is there also a military component? Are we, in fact, witnessing the birth of a new hegemony?
Journal: Studia Securitatis
- Issue Year: 1/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 36-44
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
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