“One Belt, One Road” Project as a new foreign policy strategy of China. Short analysis of the discussion inside China
Abstract
One of the most significant international infrastructure projects of our time is undoubtedly the foreign policy initiative “One belt, One Road” announced by China ’s leader Xi Jinping in 2013. Despite the fact that the true reasons, scale and long-term goals of this global project of China have not been definitively formulated yet, it is obvious the “One Belt, One Road” Project has surpassed its originally stated infrastructure and economic guidelines and become an ambitious long-term plan to promote the Chinese economic model around the world. From the point the Chinese planners the initiative of Xi Jinping is able in the near future to provide a platform for harmonious coexistence and solidarity between various countries and entire civilizations that while remaining independent from each other politically and culturally, will be economically interdependent and share a common desire for a harmonious co-development. The principles and ideals on which, to the mind of the initiators of the “One Belt, One Road” Project, such a civilizational dialogue of equals should be built, require the most serious attention and careful study. Unfortunately, in most modern publications on this topic, the analysis of the reasons, goals and objectives of the global Chinese initiative is carried out only on the basis of official documents of the Chinese government and the positions of those experts in China, whose opinion rather reflects their own attitude to the “One Belt, One Road” Project than is decisive in the process of internal Chinese discussion on this issue. It seems that this approach does not contribute to the formation of an objective understanding of the conditions under which this new foreign policy of China is born and to what consequences it could lead. In contrast, in this article, an attempt is made to consider the origins and to interpret the goals of “One Belt, One Road” Project through the analysis of the discussion taking place inside China which is not intended for the external audience.
About the Author
M. S. Mikhalev
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies of the .N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of RAS
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Law, Сandidate for a doctoral degree
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Law, Сandidate for a doctoral degree
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Review
For citations:
Mikhalev M.S. “One Belt, One Road” Project as a new foreign policy strategy of China. Short analysis of the discussion inside China. Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law. 2016;9(6):88-103. (In Russ.)
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