The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as the One Belt One Road (OBOR) or the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road, is a development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in 152 countries and international organizations in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative)
The BRI is twelve times more than the Marshal Plan. Do you believe this initiative will change the world? Is your country joining this initiative? Why do you think the BRI is good or bad for your country?
I do not believe the Belt and Road Initiative can change the world. It probably can only establish a new hegemonic structure built around China. Nigeria has bee part of this arrangement with Chinese loans and the use of Chinese technology in building some critical infrastructure particularly in the rail sub-sector. The experiences of other African countries, where China had to take over some key state infrastructure and institutions portends a dangerous signal and a tactical way of re-colonisation.
It depends on how you define the word "change". If you are referring to the life condition of people in certain areas, then probably this program will do. But if you mean Chinese government will be the new leader of the world, then definitely NO. China is by far unable to produce any cultural hegemony to confirm its status as a world leader. Look at Chinese people themselves. Aren't they trying hard to learn English so that one day they can go to study or even live in the USA?
If China cannot come up with its own system of cultural hegemony which is made up of a series of dominant discourses, BRI will be money down the drain. But it is still a good attemp to challenge USA, making it more aware of what it is to the world.
Deniz Atik and I encourage you to follow MGDR...
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/
In late 2019, we plan a special issue on One Belt One Road project of China.... We keep offering some links to the issues (such as the controversial Italy move to join OBOR) in project forums such as these....
https://www.researchgate.net/project/BRICS-and-New-Globalization
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Markets-Globalization-Development-Review-MGDR
Yes i believe it can change a little part of our world, especially Asia countries, may be a little african countries
Liu Yushu
Thanks for MGDR interest... Please contact Jingyi Duan urgently... about the MGDR OBOR Silk Road interest... Also, hello to colleagues in Mktg at Renmin
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