This book provides comprehensive analysis of China's Belt and Road Initiative after a decade of implementation, examining its impact on Indo-Pacific geopolitics and regional power dynamics.
This book provides comprehensive analysis of China's Belt and Road Initiative after a decade of implementation, examining its impact on Indo-Pacific geopolitics and regional power dynamics. Contributors explore case studies from the Maldives, Fujian Province, and South Asia, while analyzing US-China strategic competition and historical maritime precedents, and also includes:
- Comprehensive decade-long analysis of China's Belt and Road Initiative and its geopolitical implications
- Examination of Indo-Pacific strategic dynamics and great power competition between US and China
- Regional case studies including Maldives, Fujian Province, and South Asian responses to BRI
- Historical perspective connecting Zheng He voyages to contemporary Chinese maritime strategy
- Academic assessment of geopolitical contestation and evolving power structures in maritime Asia
This title has been co-published with Knowledge World Publishers. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri lanka.
Preface
1. The BRI and the Indo-Pacific: Reinventing Traditions over a
Turbulent Decade
2. The BRI and Chinas Charm Offensive in the Maldives
3.
Chinas BRI and Responses from Provinces: The Case of Fujian Province
4.
Chinas BRI: Revisiting the Labyrinth Post a Decade
5. Geopolitical
Contestation in the Indo-Pacific and the Belt and Road Initiative: An
Evolving Great Game in the Maritime World
6. The Zheng He Voyages: Chinas
Encounters with the Sea-Faring Nations of the East and the Maritime Legacy
7.
US-China Geopolitical Competition: A Showdown between the Indo-Pacific and
the BRI
8. BRI: The Dragons Great Eurasian Sphere of Influence
9. The BRI
and South Asia: Tracing the Variations in Chinese Engagements
10. Mahans
Theory of Sea Power and Chinese Politics in the Indo-Pacific Index
Bhavna Singh holds PhD in Chinese Nationalism from the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is currently Senior Research Fellow (2023-2025) at the Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China under the CSC Language Scholarship working on Qing Dynasty trade. She previously worked as a consultant with the CCCS, MEA (2021-2023) and as an Associate Fellow with the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS: 2018-2020). She was a Senior Research Officer with the China Research Programme at IPCS from 2010-2013.
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