Tag: Belt

China’s One Belt One Road Initiative, Challenges and Prospects


Free Download B K Sharm, Dr. Nivedita Das Kundu, "China’s One Belt One Road: Initiative, Challenges and Prospects"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 9385563599, 9385563696 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 0.9 mb
The Chapters in this book written by Chinese and Indian academics and researchers from United Service Institution of India and Sichuan University, explaining the inter-disciplinary approaches and comparative perspectives, that may help to understand the essence and implication of China’s ‘One Belt One Road’, initiative by identifying the convergences of interest in terms of social and economic development, political and cultural exchanges and remove the potential hindrance. The Chapters explained the scope of the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative as the mega development project and framework proposed by China, focusing on connectivity and cooperation among the regional countries, which till date received mixed reactions. There have been debates across the world regarding different facets of the OBOR initiative from whether it is an economic or strategic initiative or only a re-branding or a slogan for already existing ideas and projects.

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Global Perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity


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English | ISBN: 946372785X | 2021 | 350 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The year 2013 saw the launch of the largest, most influential investment initiative in recent memory: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This globe-spanning strategy has reshaped local economies and regional networks, and it has become a contested subject for scholars and practitioners alike. How should we make sense of the complex interactions that the BRI has enabled? Understanding these processes requires truly global perspectives alongside careful attention to the role that local actors play in giving shape to individual BRI projects. The contributions in Global Perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity provide both ‘big picture’ assessments of China’s role in regional and global interactions and detailed case studies that home in on the role agency plays in BRI dynamics. Written by leading area studies scholars with diverse disciplinary expertise, this book reveals how Chinese efforts to recalibrate the world are taken up, challenged, revamped, and reworked in diverse contexts around the world.

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Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative


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English | EPUB | 2021 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 9811640661 | 276.1 MB
This book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021.

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Defying Beijing Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar


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English | ISBN: 1760466352 | 2024 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to construct a Sino-centric transcontinental infrastructure network in Asia, Europe, Africa and beyond. Within this initiative, the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) is a vital strategic component. The shortcut to the Indian Ocean seeks to improve China’s energy security and facilitate trade. Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar shows how Myanmar was able to capitalise on Chinese BRI ambitions to achieve its own desired outcomes during the country’s political liberalisation in the 2010s. Belying the asymmetrical relationship between these two nations, the Myitsone hydropower dam was suspended, the Letpadaung copper mine’s contract was renegotiated, and the Kyaukphyu deep seaport project was downsized. China offered concessions to Myanmar instead of pressuring it to honour those signed agreements. Contrasting a common proposition that US-Myanmar rapprochement disrupted the BRI projects in Myanmar,

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Science Education in Countries Along the Belt & Road Future Insights and New Requirements


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English | ISBN: 9811669546 | 2022 | 538 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book aims to highlight science education in countries along the Belt and Road. It consists of 30 chapters divided into three main parts, namely Arab and African countries, Asian countries and European countries,. We invited science education experts from 29 "Belt and Road" countries to introduce the current status of science education in their countries and the new requirements with the rapid evolution of Information Technology. The major contributions of this book include:

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Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative


Free Download Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative by Ashley Scott Kelly
English | EPUB | 2021 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 9811640661 | 276.1 MB
This book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021.

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