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Belt and Road

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by Bruno Maçães


  economic corridors, 2, 11, 51–4, 55

  economic nationalism, 102

  economic policy coordination, 28

  Economist, The, 190

  Egypt, 101

  electric cars, 81, 104

  electricity, 40, 46, 49, 52, 61, 98, 156, 188

  end of history, 36

  energy, 4, 11, 17, 19, 20–23, 48, 49, 82, 86, 92, 188

  electricity, 40, 46, 49, 52, 61, 98, 156, 188

  gas, 21, 22, 40, 52, 64, 72, 106

  hydropower, 48

  oil, 21, 22, 23, 40, 52, 64, 72, 106

  renewable, 21, 187, 188

  English language, 111, 188

  Enhanced Mobile Broadband coding scheme, 89

  Enlightenment, 193

  environmental sustainability, 75

  Erenhot, Inner Mongolia, 55

  Ethiopia, 46, 68, 154, 170, 186

  Eurasia, 1–5, 11, 20, 26, 45, 52, 57, 63, 120, 121, 138

  Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), 57–9

  Eurasian Resources Group, 103

  European Commission, 143, 145

  European empires, 120–21

  European Union (EU), 5, 29, 57, 58, 138–47, 159, 176, 179

  and Belt and Road, 10, 12, 30, 138–47

  Connecting Europe and Asia strategy (2018), 145–6

  and Djibouti, 67

  economic policy coordination, 28

  5G mobile networks, 43

  immigration, 187

  steel industry, 17

  tariffs, 83

  technology transfers, 87–8, 178

  transnational framework, 81

  Turkey, relations with, 4

  Export-Import Bank of China, 46, 47, 48, 49, 103, 154

  exports, 15, 17, 19, 79

  Facebook, 188

  facial recognition, 44, 190

  fashion industry, 101

  fate, 34

  Fergana Valley, 54

  fertilizers, 19

  fibre-optic connectivity, 101

  fifth generation (5G) mobile networks, 43–4, 89

  finance, 11, 36, 46–51, 54, 126, 138, 141, 153–64

  Financial Times, 10, 63, 143, 154, 157, 158, 159

  five-year plan (2016–20), 41

  Folding Beijing (Hao), 150

  food imports, 76

  foreign direct investment, 46, 144–6

  foreign exchange, 16, 94, 153

  Forest City, Johor, 149–51, 155

  France, 11, 96, 129, 141, 144, 146–7, 189

  free and open order, 125

  free-trade zones, 11, 42, 55–6, 71

  freedoms of speech, 172, 189

  French Foreign Legion, 129

  French, Howard, 13

  Frontier Services Group, 128–9

  Fu Chen, 129

  Fu Ying, 140

  Fukuyama, Francis, 184–5

  Gabon, 96

  Gabriel, Sigmar, 142

  Gang of Four, 14

  Gants Mod crossing closure (2016), 36

  gas, 21, 22, 40, 52, 64, 72, 106

  General Navigation Office, 69

  generic drugs, 114

  Genghis Khan, 2, 25

  Georgia, 58

  Germany, 11, 65, 80, 87–8, 90, 100, 141–2, 144, 189

  ghost ships, 186

  Gibraltar, 92

  Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, 54, 60, 108

  Gland Pharma, 113

  glass, 17, 83

  Global Energy Interconnection, 188

  global financial crisis (2008), 16–17, 85, 161, 178

  Global Infrastructure Center, 190

  Global Times, 67, 109, 131

  global value chain revolution, 74

  global warming, 4, 66, 85

  globalization, 19, 28, 66, 78, 102, 124, 144, 168, 174, 192

  ‘Going Out’ strategy, 86

  good governance, 183–4

  Google, 152, 188

  Goubet, Djibouti, 67

  government procurement, 12, 59

  Grand Palace, Bangkok, 65

  Grand Trunk Road, 53

  Greece, 30, 31, 65, 140, 141, 142

  GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), 89

  Guangdong, China, 28, 75, 151

  Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group, 67

  Guangxi Nonferrous Metals Group, 16

  Guiding Opinion on Promoting International Industrial Capacity (2015), 86

  Guiding Opinion on Standardizing the Direction of Overseas Investment (2017), 86

  Guo Chu, 33

  Gwadar, Balochistan, 46, 59, 61–2, 63, 64, 99–100, 101, 105–7, 117

  Hainan, China, 71

  Hambantota, Sri Lanka, 46–7, 63, 64, 68, 117, 162

  Hamburg, Germany, 65

  Hamilton, Clive, 133

  Han Empire (206 BC–220 AD), 25

  Hao Jingfang, 150

  ‘harmonious world’, 33, 36

  Havelian, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 54

  He Yafei, 19, 168

  heavy industry, 75, 82

  Hebei, China, 83

  Heilongjiang, China, 55

  Hesteel, 83

  high-speed railways, 18, 53–4, 83, 89, 98, 122, 130, 137, 138, 143, 186–7

  highways, see roads

  Hillman, Jonathan, 8

  Hobbes, Thomas, 27

  Holslag, Jonathan, 189

  Hong Kong, 49, 103

  Hongshi Holding Group, 49

  Horgos, Xinjiang, 55, 55–6, 57

  Horn of Africa, 3

  Hu Huaibang, 49, 97

  Hu Jintao, 21, 33, 70

  Hu Xiaolian, 154

  Huang Libin, 19

  Huangyan Island, 187

  Huawei, 89–90, 101, 171

  Hub, Balochistan, 127

  hukou (household registration), 76

  human rights, 141–2, 170, 171, 189

  Hun Sen, 155

  Hungary, 30, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144

  Huntington, Samuel, 184

  Hussain, Chaudhry Fawad, 157

  hydropower, 48

  Ibrahim Ismail, Sultan of Johor, 151

  immigration, 187

  impatience, 152–3

  imports, 17, 19, 22, 79–84

  India and the Indian Ocean (Panikkar), 118

  India, 3, 5, 64, 105–25, 134–6, 174, 179

  Bangladesh Liberation War (1971), 109

  and Belt and Road, 11, 12, 52, 72, 105–15, 130, 133

  Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (2017), 12, 108

  British Raj (1858–1947), 107

  Buddhism, 111–12

  cosmopolitan neighborhoods, 4

  cultural mission to China (1952), 113

  Doklam plateau dispute, 107–8, 113

  economic autarchy, 110, 117

  free and open order, 125

  Grand Trunk Road, 53

  imports, 113–14

  and Indian Ocean, 3, 116–19

  Indo-Pacific, 116–23, 125

  Japan, relations with, 118

  Kashmir dispute, 108–9, 117

  Malabar naval exercises (2018), 135

  and maritime hegemony, 72

  migrant workers, 150

  military bases, 3, 131

  Modi–Xi summit (2018), 135

  Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed railway, 138

  nuclear tests (1998), 109

  Pakistan, relations with, 105–7, 108–9, 117, 134

  pharmaceuticals, 113, 114

  Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, 121–2

  Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), 105–6

  and Sabang Island, 131

  Siliguri Corridor, 107–8

  Southeast Asia, 113, 117–18

  Swaraj’s visit to China (2018), 135

  Tibet, relations with, 111–12, 117, 136

  United States, relations with, 119, 121–2, 134, 135

  Indian Dilemma, 21

  Indian Ocean, 3, 8, 9, 26, 51, 62, 63, 66, 68, 71–2, 116–19

  Indo-Pacific, 116–23, 125, 126

  and Japan, 4


  Kra Isthmus canal proposal, 65, 186

  meticulous selection, 72

  Myanmar oil and gas pipeline, 64, 72

  oil, 21, 64

  and Pakistan, 59, 61, 64

  individualism, 27, 189

  Indo-Pacific, 116–23, 125, 126

  Indo-Pacific Business Forum, 122

  Indo-Pacific Command, US, 126

  Indochina, 51, 52, 54, 62

  Indonesia, 2, 5, 18, 26, 39, 48, 83, 117, 131

  Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, 48, 49, 103

  industrial capacity cooperation, 85–8, 98, 102–4

  industrial internet, 44

  industrial parks, 10, 43, 55, 61, 67, 99, 102

  Industrial Revolution, 84

  information technology, 43–4, 74, 81, 86, 90, 94, 111, 170–71, 190

  infrastructure, 3, 23, 26, 30, 40–45, 48, 50, 55, 58, 63, 86, 88, 124, 139, 141, 162, 167, 186

  Afghanistan, 135

  communications, 81, 118

  digital, 43–4

  European Union, 10, 141, 145

  India, 64, 118, 135

  Japan, 4, 136–8

  Maritime Silk Road, 66, 67

  Mediterranean, 65

  Pakistan, 54, 62, 99, 105

  Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, 121–2

  Southeast Asia, 18–19, 70, 117, 130, 132

  steel industry, 18

  transportation, see transportation

  value chains, 96

  Xinjiang, 20, 54

  Inner Mongolia, China, 55

  innovation, 76

  Institute for International Finance, 153

  intellectual property, 59, 88–9, 91, 97, 180, 190

  international courts, 28, 190

  international industrial capacity cooperation, 85–8, 98, 102–4

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 15, 156–7, 158–9, 172

  Internet, 43–4, 86, 170–71

  internet of things, 90, 94

  Iran, 4, 22, 105–6

  Iraq, 24

  Irkeshtam, Xinjiang, 55

  iron, 17

  Islamabad, Pakistan, 60, 99, 101, 127, 157

  Islamic State, 128

  Islamism, 127–9

  Istanbul, Turkey, 4, 24, 65

  Italy, 48, 65, 140, 189

  Izumi, Hiroto, 137

  Jadhav, Kulbhushan, 105–6

  Jakarta, Indonesia, 2, 5, 26, 39

  Japan, 1, 5, 22, 123, 133, 136–8, 145, 165, 166, 169, 189

  Buddhism, 111

  Cold War, 21–2

  India, relations with, 118

  Indian Ocean, 4

  infrastructure development, 4, 136–8

  Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, 121–2

  Second World War (1937–45), 119, 165

  Javaid, Nadeem, 46

  Jiang Qing, 14

  Jiang Shigong, 183–4

  Jiang Zemin, 15

  Jiangsu Delong, 83

  Jin Qi, 98

  Jinnah Town, Quetta, 128

  Johor, Malaysia, 149–51

  Joint Statement on Cooperation on EEU and Silk Road Projects (2015), 57–8

  joint ventures, 97

  Journey to the West, 186, 188

  Juncker, Jean-Claude, 138

  Kaeser, Joe 170

  Karachi, Sindh, 59, 100, 105, 106, 127

  Karakoram Highway, 54, 60, 64

  Kashgar, Xinjiang, 54, 59, 60, 64, 101

  Kashmir, 60, 108–9, 117

  Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, 104

  Kaz Minerals 103

  Kazakhstan, 8, 55–9, 129, 189

  Astana International Exchange, 56

  China–EEU free-trade agreement signing (2018), 58

  and Eurasian Economic Union, 57

  gateway to Europe, 56

  Horgos International Cooperation Center, 55–6

  industrial capacity cooperation, 103–4

  railways, 54

  Xi’s speech (2013), 23, 25–6, 39

  Kazakhstan Aluminum, 103

  keeping a low profile (tao guang yang hui), 15, 18, 32

  Kenya, 101, 138, 171

  Khan, Imran, 157–8

  Khawar, Hasaan, 53

  Khunjerab Pass, 101

  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 54, 60, 100

  Kizilsu Kirghiz, Xinjiang, 60

  knowledge, 74, 76, 87

  Kolkata, West Bengal, 64

  Kortunov, Andrey, 135

  kowtow, 35

  Kra Isthmus, Thailand, 65, 186

  Kuala Linggi Port, Malacca, 63

  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 130

  Kuantan, Pahang, 63, 67

  Kudaibergen, Dimash, 57

  Kunming, Yunnan, 188

  Kyaukpyu, Rakhine, 63, 64, 132, 154

  Kyrgyzstan, 53, 54, 55, 103, 127

  labor costs, 74, 83, 85, 99

  labor shortages, 75

  Lagarde, Christine, 158–9

  Lahore, Punjab, 100, 157

  Laos, 50, 52, 54, 129, 132

  Latin America, 25, 187, 188

  Leifeld Metal Spinning AG, 88

  Lenin, Vladimir, 6, 78

  Lenovo, 89–90

  Li Hongzhang, 69

  Li Keqiang, 44

  Li Ruogu, 47

  Liaoning, China, 55

  liberal values, 123, 125, 133, 170

  liberal world order, 141, 144, 167–86, 190, 192

  Lighthizer, Robert, 91

  lignite, 61

  liquefied natural gas (LNG), 48, 66

  Lisbon, Portugal, 2, 5

  lithium-ion batteries, 81

  Liu Chuanzhi, 89–90

  Liu He, 92

  loans, 11, 36, 46–7, 54, 108–9, 124, 126, 130, 132, 138, 141, 153–63, 190

  London, England, 65, 160

  Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 1

  Lou Jiwei, 76

  Luo Jianbo, 7

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, 31–4

  machinery, 81, 90, 98, 156

  Mackinder, Halford, 120

  Macron, Emmanuel, 146–7

  Made in China 2025 strategy, 85, 87, 90–92, 93

  Mahan, Alfred, 120

  Mahathir Mohamad, 130–31, 151, 155

  Malabar naval exercises (2018), 135

  Malacca, Malaysia, 3, 63

  Malacca Strait, 21–2, 64, 65, 72, 117, 131

  Malay Mail, 155

  Malaysia, 3, 70, 117, 130–31, 154 debt, 154

  Forest City, 149–51, 155

  high-speed railways, 54, 130

  Mahathir government (2018–), 130–31, 151, 155

  1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal (2015–), 155

  ports, 63, 67

  Maldives, 134, 155

  Mali, 129

  Malik, Ashok, 109

  Malta, 140

  Mandarin, 107, 149, 188

  Manila, Philippines, 122

  Mann, James, 177

  manufacturing, 11, 19, 68, 77, 85, 99

  outsourcing, 68, 99

  value chains, 3, 43, 64, 73–4, 79–82, 84–5, 94–104, 141

  Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, 55

  Mao Zedong, 13–14, 31, 183

  maps, 2–6, 24, 41, 64, 69

  Maritime Silk Road, 24, 26, 28, 39, 41, 53, 62–72, 117

  market integration, 41

  Mars, 187

  Marshall Plan, 40

  Marx, Karl, 6

  Marxism, 78

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 177

  Matarbari port, Bangladesh, 138

  matchmaking services, 11

  Mattis, James, 124

  McMahon Line, 111

  Mediterranean Sea, 4, 51, 62, 65, 119

  Mei Xinyu, 21

  Mekong Delta, 8

  mergers and acquisitions, 42

  Merkel, Angela, 88, 141, 144

  meticulous selection, 72

  Middle East, 4, 6, 22, 64, 120, 129, 163, 171

  middle-income trap, 75–7, 85

  migrant workers, 75

  Milanovic, Branko,
173

  military, 3, 12, 67, 71, 72, 101, 117, 126–7

  Ming Empire (1368–1644), 163

  Ming Hao, 30

  minimum wage, 75

  Ministry of Commerce, 21, 40, 93

  Ministry of Communications, 69

  Ministry of Finance, 49

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 40

  Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 19

  Ministry of Transportation, 14

  Minmetals International Trust Co, 16

  mobile payments, 193

  Modi, Narendra, 106, 135–6

  Mohan, Raja, 3, 121

  Mombasa, Kenya, 138

  Mongol Empire (1206–1368), 2, 25

  Mongolia, 8, 36, 52, 55, 111

  Moon, 187

  Moraes, Frank, 112–13

  Moscow, Russia, 4

  Most Favored Nation status, 15

  Mozambique, 138

  multinationals, 74, 88–9

  multipolar world system, 179

  Mumbai, Maharashtra, 4, 105, 138

  Myanmar, 52, 54, 63, 64, 72, 129, 132, 138, 154

  Nacala, Nampula, 138

  narcotics trade, 127

  Nathan, Andrew, 159

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 9

  National Bureau of Statistics, 75

  National Congress

  18th (2012), 28

  19th (2017), 29

  National Cybersecurity Work Conference (2018), 84

  National Development and Reform Commission, 40, 98

  National Health Commission, 114

  National League for Democracy, Myanmar, 132

  National Museum of China, Beijing, 165, 166

  National Party of New Zealand, 132

  National People’s Congress, 44

  National Rescue Party of Cambodia, 155

  Nazarbayev University, 25–6

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, 113

  Nepal, 134, 135, 150

  Netherlands, 56, 65

  New Zealand, 132–3

  Nigeria, 68

  Ning Jizhe, 137

  Nordin, Astrid, 42

  Northern Sea Route, 66

  Northwest Passage, 66

  NPK fertilizer, 99

  nuclear power/weapons, 21, 83, 88, 109, 166, 187

  oil, 21, 22, 23, 40, 52, 64, 72, 106

  1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal (2015–), 155

  One China policy, 142

  Open Times, 183

  Opium War, First (1839–1842), 165

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

  (OECD), 79

  Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 54

  overcapacity, 16, 19–20, 88

  Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, 19

  Overseas Investment Industrial Guiding Policy, 86

  Pacific Command, US, 125–6

  Pacific Journal, 71

  Pacific Ocean, 3, 5, 9, 26, 45, 62, 116, 117, 125–6, 139

  Indo-Pacific, 116–23, 125, 126

  Pakistan, 12, 20, 46, 48, 52, 59–62, 64, 98–102, 105, 126–9, 133–4, 155, 156–8

  Abbasi’s Beijing visit (2018), 126

  agriculture, 99–100

  balance of payments crisis, 156–8

  Economic Corridor, 52, 59, 60, 62, 105, 108, 156–8

  electricity production, 61

  fibre-optic connectivity, 101

 

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