Week 6 Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
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What is China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
A
Purpose is Policy coordination, connectivity, infrastructure cooperation, trade, common
development and prosperity, understanding between peoples, good neighbourly
relations.
2
Q
Changing agenda BRI
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- Remaining focus on practical cooperation
- But also broader ambitions including new ideas for international cooperation
3
Q
What is BRI about
A
- Continued focus on connectivity and infrastructure
- Platform to confer more international weight to Chinese ideas and interests
4
Q
China has been criticized for using BRI as
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- A simple tool of “political marketing”
- A channel for exporting “digital authoritarianism” to like-minded governments
- A geopolitical strategy of “soft domination,” including for example debt trap diplomacy
- A neo-colonial project of creating dependencies
5
Q
General evolution of China
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- From isolation under Mao
- To low profile
- to striving for achievment
- From independent foreign policy under Deng
- to growing involvement in multilateral settings
- to own proposals for development, international governance, international order
- BRI is part of a recent trend towards greater confidence in
- actively pursuing own interests and promoting own ideas
- promoting Chinese solutions to international challenges
- getting China’s voice heard
6
Q
The role of IOs in BRI
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Institutional balancing
7
Q
Institutional balancing
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- IOs as tool for rising powers to influence bilateral relationships in its own favor
- Backdrop: dissatisfaction with existing order
8
Q
BRI in terms of global governance
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BRI as “positive endeavor to seek new models of international cooperation and global governance”
9
Q
What institutional arrangements has China emphasized under BRI?
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- Respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-aggression, non-interference, equality and mutual benefit, peaceful coexistence - Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
- Bilateral rather than multilateral agreements
- Pragmatic focus on mutual benefit
