scholarly journals The Change of Western Cognition of “the Belt and Road” and China's Guiding Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangyue Li
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The West ◽  
Cognitive Differences ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
The Belt And Road

"The Belt and Road" is a national top-level cooperation initiative proposed by China with the goal of establishing "a community with a shared future for mankind" and transcending geopolitics and ideology to achieve win-win results. Around "the Belt and Road", the West has formed positive cognition such as "Chinese Opportunity", "Channel to Realize Ideal Goals", "Oriental Leading Model", and "Global Sample". However, due to the limitations of "stereotypes" and "zero-sum thinking", some people in the West still have misunderstandings about "the Belt and Road Initiative". To guide them out of cognitive misunderstandings and reduce the cognitive differences between China and the West, we can start from cognitive theory, analyze cognitive performance and its causes, and adopt corresponding strategies and methods.

Civilizational Perspectives of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Critical Testing of Huntington’s Thesis of the Clash of Civilizations in the BRI Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 2150010
Author(s):  
Baogang He
Keyword(s):  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The West ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
The Belt And Road

In recent years, a civilizational perspective as a part of geopolitical analysis is deployed to fuel geopolitical concern. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been viewed as a case of the clash of civilizations between the West and China. This paper scrutinizes the civilization-based geopolitical approach and analysis. It tests the “civilizational-clash” thesis beyond the Sinic–West relations through the cases of the Sinic–Islamic and Sinic–Hindu relations. An examination and comparison of different civilizational responses to the BRI helps us to develop a critical perspective to investigate the problems in the BRI, in particular the potential civilizational fault-lines along the BRI route. The paper rejects the simplistic version of civilization-based geopolitical analysis as insufficient, problematic, and even misleading. It has sought to refine and nurture a more sophisticated and rigorous approach to the complex connection between the BRI and civilization.

Western pushback against China will increase

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive View ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Public Views ◽  
The Belt And Road

Significance Senior US officials see Communist-led China as the foremost threat to the United States. The Trump administration’s campaign against it spans the spectrum of government actions: criticism; tariffs; sanctions; regulatory crackdowns; military intimidation; support for Taiwan; and restrictions on imports, exports, investment and visas. Impacts Beijing will have little success in driving a wedge between Washington and its major Western allies. The West is unlikely to produce a convincing alternative to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Negative public views of China incentivise China-bashing by politicians, which in turn feeds negative public opinion in a downward spiral. Beijing will persist in its efforts to encourage a more positive view of China among Western publics.

Turkey’s Perceptions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (2013–2017): Media and Think-Tanks Discourse Analysis

China Report ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-241
Author(s):  
Nurettin Akçay ◽  
Tang Qingye
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Cognitive Differences ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
Geological Position

This article takes an empirical approach to Turkey’s perceptions of China’s proposal to build a Community of a Shared Future for Mankind and begin the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by examining data from Turkey’s mainstream media, think-tanks, academic and business fields, and social media sources. The findings demonstrate that, despite Turkey’s geological position, the degree of concern for a Community of a Shared Future and the BRI is not high enough. There are positive and negative evaluations. The positive evaluation is mainly related to the importance of BRI with regard to Turkey’s economy, business, infrastructure construction and the national rejuvenation, while the negative side is about China’s aim, cultural security and the disputes between the two countries. To deal with such cognitive differences, China needs to boost the publicity of the initiative and form a better understanding about Turkish domestic needs. China and Turkey should also seek to strengthen people-to-people ties.

scholarly journals The New Silk Road as the Pendulum Axis of History: China’s “Journey to the West” Opens a Range of Opportunities to Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Georgina Higueras
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The West ◽  
Marco Polo ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Government ◽  
Global Economic Growth ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
The Silk Road

The pendulum of History leaves the West to return to the East, as in the times of Marco Polo. China has found in the resurrection of the Silk Road the instrument for a more inclusive global economic growth and that is also in line with the multipolar world that the government proposes. In just five years, The Belt and Road Initiative, as it is formally referred to, has made great strides in its revolutionary global connection plan and added new followers, despite of the swiftness of the Chinese’s ascent is scaring many countries, especially its neighbors. The purpose of this article is to analyze the misgivings of Europe and the range of opportunities that Beijing is<br />offering to create together a model of sustainable<br />development and address the major challenges<br />that affect both: inequality, climate change and<br />protectionist drift. The New Silk Road is a unique<br />opportunity to bring closer the two extremes of<br />Eurasia, which today, more than ever, need to<br />understand each other.

The New Silk Road and the “Idea of the University”

2020 ◽  
pp. 331-360
Author(s):  
Barbara Sporn ◽  
Marijk van der Wende
Keyword(s):  
Business Schools ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Universities ◽  
Global Player ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The University ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
Idea Of The University

This chapter analyzes the influence of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as the Chinese government’s strategy on the “idea of the university” in China, with special attention to governance, mission, and role in society, as well as the values underpinning the model of the university. Results from this work imply that Chinese universities have not been changing dramatically through the BRI strategy as such. They have rather been on a pathway of transformation to which the BRI is adding opportunities, the extent to which seems to be mostly bound to disciplinary fields. STEM has already been a prominent global player for a while. Business schools that have been internationalizing for many years are now taking further entrepreneurial steps, and also specific areas in the humanities are exploring new international initiatives. While those trends show striking similarities regarding internationalization strategies in the West, some notable differences relate to China’s particular approach.

China's blockchain network has strategic implications

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Payments System ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Digital Payments ◽  
The Belt And Road

Significance The BSN's most immediate objective is to promote international trade by enabling smart contracts and supply chain tracing. It is often mentioned alongside other Chinese initiatives aimed at facilitating trade, most importantly the Belt and Road Initiative. Impacts The West will be suspicious of the BSN, and if it becomes widely adopted it could elicit some kind of pushback or attempts to counter it. The BSN could improve the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturers by cutting costs and improving quality and security. In conjunction with the Digital Yuan, the BSN will advance China's efforts to create a universal digital payments system.

scholarly journals China’s Belt and Road Initiative Revisited: Challenges and Ways Forward

2018 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitzhak Shichor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Shanghai Cooperation Organization ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Multilateral Institutions ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Belt And Road

Compared with other Chinese-proposed multilateral institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is not yet fully institutionalized. Still, it has been enthusiastically welcomed by many Asian and African countries, though less so by Western ones, Japan, and Russia. This is not only because of the expected economic benefits being Asian- and African-centric, but perhaps more importantly, because of the BRI having potential to be an exceptional Eastern model that may become universal. Up to the recent times, the flow of religions, doctrines, ideas and ideologies has mainly been from the West to the East, often accompanied by Western colonialism. Now, if the BRI is successfully implemented, for the first time in history a model of Eastern origin may affect the West and the rest of world. Unlike national liberation movements which had achieved political but not economic independence, China’s BRI could facilitate an international liberation movement that helps Asian and African countries to achieve growth and development, and thereby become economically independent as well. The innovation of the BRI does not only lie in its direction of influence (from the East to the West), but also in that it will be accomplished in Chinese rather than Western ways. That, more than particular economic benefits, explains the BRI’s attraction.

China's space programme will rebound from setbacks

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Space Industry ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
New Space ◽  
The Belt And Road

Significance China's ambitious space programme suffered a setback last month when the newest and most powerful addition to the Long March rocket family, the Long March-5, was destroyed by a malfunction shortly after a launch. This was the third and most serious Long March failure over the past year. Impacts The consistency of political commitment to China's space programme will not waver. China's space industry will integrate itself into the Belt and Road Initiative. China is unlikely to allow its space industry the autonomy and freewheeling entrepreneurialism that characterises 'New Space' in the West.

scholarly journals Mutual Learning in Development Cooperation: China and the West

IDS Bulletin ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiantuo Yu ◽  
Evan Due
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
International Development ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The West ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
International Development Cooperation

This article looks at some of the characteristics of China’s foreign aid system and its development over the years. It discusses China’s foreign aid based on its own development experiences and its view of South–South development cooperation. Both the modalities and narratives of China’s international development cooperation need to be considered in order to better understand the complexities, strengths, and weaknesses of its aid system. As China’s international aid continues to grow and become more prominent, particularly in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, the article calls for a deeper understanding of China’s aid institutions and the need for greater cooperation and capacity building.

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