China's Belt and Road Initiatives and Its Neighboring Diplomacy

This book studies China's Belt and Road Initiatives and the country's neighboring diplomacy. The Belt and Road Initiatives proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 consist of two main components, the land-based "Silk Road Economic Belt" and ocean-going "Maritime Silk Road". China has implemented the initiatives by establishing Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Silk Road Fund. This book focuses on analysis of the initiatives and the responses from the major powers, neighboring countries and regions.

The book consists of four parts: the Overview; The Belt and Road Initiatives and Big Powers; The Belt and Road Initiative and Regions; The Belt and Road Initiative and Hot Issues. The Overview explicates the strategic orientations, connotations and approaches of implementation of the initiatives from a theoretical perspective. The second part analyzes the Asia-Pacific strategies of four great powers, namely the United States, Russia, Japan and India, their relations with China and responses to the initiative. The third part discusses the Belt and Road Initiatives and four regions, namely Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia. It evaluates their attitudes and responses towards the Belt and Road Initiatives, strategic docking and major challenges in this regard. The fourth part touches upon the initiatives and current hot issues including non-traditional security, the South China Sea dispute, and venture analysis on investment environment renovation.

Contents:

• Overview:

  • Belt and Road Initiative as a Grand Strategy (Zhang Yunling)
  • Security Environment around China: Changes, Construction, and Challenges (Zhang Jie)

• The Belt and Road Initiative and Big Powers:

  • The US Asia-Pacific Rebalance Strategy versus China's Belt and Road Initiative (Cao Xiaoyang)
  • The New Tendency of Abe's Government and the Strategic Dilemma in Sino-Japanese Relations (Li Chengri)
  • Construction of Russia's "Eurasian Union" and "Economic Corridor among China, Mongolia, and Russia" (Fan Lijun)
  • The Belt and Road Initiative: India's Strategy and its Effect (Song Haixiao)

• The Belt and Road Initiative and Regions:

  • Situations in Northeast Asia and the Belt and Road Initiative (Piao Jianyi)
  • Situations in Southeast Asia and Constructing Maritime Silk Road (Yang Danzhi)
  • South Asia and the Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospect (Wu Zhaoli)
  • Central Asian Countries and the Silk Road Economic Belt (Baoyi)

• The Belt and Road Initiative and Hot Issues:

  • The Political Risk Analysis on China's Direct Investment Environment of the Belt and Road Initiative (Piao Zhuhua, Liu Xiaomeng, and Teng Zhuoyou)
  • The Non-Traditional Security Issues in Realizing the Belt and Road Initiative (Li Zhifei)
  • 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Construction and the Situations of South China Sea (Xue Li)

Readership: Academics, policy-makers, undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's Belt and Road Initiatives, and China's geopolitical strategies.
Key Features:

• The first English book on China's Belt and Road Initiatives and its neighboring diplomacy
• Provides panoramic and in-depth analysis of the initiatives and China's relations with major powers, neighboring countries and regions