All Roads Lead North

All Roads Lead North

Author: Amish Raj Mulmi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-05-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0197654207

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During the June 2020 territorial dispute over Kalapani, India blamed tensions on a newly assertive Nepal's deepening relations with China. But beyond the accusations and grandstanding, this reflects a new reality: the power equations in South Asia have been redrawn, to make space for China. Nepal did not turn northwards overnight. Its ties with China have deep historical roots built on Buddhism, dating to the early first millennium. While India's unofficial 2015 blockade provided momentum to the rift with Delhi, Nepal has long wanted deeper ties with Beijing, to counteract India's oppressive intimacy. With China's growing South Asian and global ambitions, Nepal now has a new primary bilateral partner-and Nepalis are forging a path towards modernity with its help, both in the remote borderlands and in the cities. All Roads Lead North offers a long view of Nepal's foreign relations, today underpinned by China's world-power status. Sharing never- before-told stories about Tibetan guerrilla fighters, failed coup leaders and trans- Himalayan traders, Nepal analyst Amish Raj Mulmi examines the histories binding mountain communities together across the Sino-Nepali border. Part history, part journalistic account, Mulmi's is a complex, compelling and rigorously researched study of a small country caught between two neighbourhood giants.


All Roads Lead to China

All Roads Lead to China

Author: Jeffrey Friedland

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780989376402

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Many in the west have refused to acknowledge that an economic war has been underway, one from which there will emerge winners and losers. In All Roads Lead to China, Jeffrey Friedland takes the position that the war is already over and that the victor is China and the vanquished are the U.S. and Europe. Friedland believes that the U.S. and the euro zone will become by mid-century, at best, second tier economies. In All Roads Lead to China, Friedland makes the case that investors have everything to gain from China's economic prosperity, and much to lose by ignoring it. He also makes a compelling argument that returns from investing in mature economies, including the United States and the euro zone, will not be as rewarding over the long-run, compared to returns from investing in China. Friedland explains that China is the most important story for our generation, and the generations to follow. He describes that as the United States and Europe are mired in their own financial problems, China will soon be the world's largest economy and its growth over the next twenty to fifty years will outpace that of the rest of the world. All Roads Lead to China provides investors with the background necessary to understand the country, it's history and enormous potential. The book describes the different ways to invest and numerous financial products that are available, including shares of companies, mutual funds and exchange traded funds. Savvy investors know they should include China in their portfolios, but few know how to proceed. All Roads Lead to China provides that road map for investors or anyone else who wish to have a better understanding of China and its potential.


The Emperor’s New Road

The Emperor’s New Road

Author: Jonathan E. Hillman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0300256078

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A prominent authority on China’s Belt and Road Initiative reveals the global risks lurking within Beijing’s project of the century China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the world’s most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision. To carry out President Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign-policy effort, China promises to spend over one trillion dollars for new ports, railways, fiber-optic cables, power plants, and other connections. The plan touches more than one hundred and thirty countries and has expanded into the Arctic, cyberspace, and even outer space. Beijing says that it is promoting global development, but Washington warns that it is charting a path to global dominance. Taking readers on a journey to China’s projects in Asia, Europe, and Africa, Jonathan E. Hillman reveals how this grand vision is unfolding. As China pushes beyond its borders and deep into dangerous territory, it is repeating the mistakes of the great powers that came before it, Hillman argues. If China succeeds, it will remake the world and place itself at the center of everything. But Xi may be overreaching: all roads do not yet lead to Beijing.


China's Route Heritage

China's Route Heritage

Author: Gary Sigley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1000217884

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China’s Route Heritage examines the creation, development and proliferation of the route heritage discourse of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao), in the People’s Republic of China. Examining the formation of the tea-horse road as a concept, its development as a platform for cultural branding, and its most recent interactions with the policy of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the revival of the discourse on the Silk Roads, the book demonstrates that the tea-horse road is an important part of the discourse on Chinese modernity. Describing the route heritage of the tea-horse road as a ‘mobility narrative’, whereby an ancient route is used to form a narrative of ethnic unity and cooperation, the book demonstrates that the study of such heritage offers unique insights into issues that are of concern to the wider field of critical heritage studies. Sigley also shows how the study of alternative route heritage enables us to gain a broader sense of route heritage discourse and its implications for the discussion of historical, present and future forms of mobility and connectivity within China and beyond its borders. China’s Route Heritage should be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students who are engaged in the study of heritage, China, the Silk Roads and the BRI, politics, international relations and tourism.


Geocultural Power

Geocultural Power

Author: Tim Winter

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 022665849X

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Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. But what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century? Geocultural Power explores this question by considering how China is couching its strategy for building trade, foreign relations, and energy and political security in an evocative topography of history. Until now Belt and Road has been discussed as a geopolitical and geoeconomic project. This book introduces geocultural power to the analysis of international affairs. Tim Winter highlights how many countries—including Iran, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and others—are revisiting their histories to find points of diplomatic and cultural connection. Through the revived Silk Roads, China becomes the new author of Eurasian history and the architect of the bridge between East and West. In a diplomatic dance of forgetting, episodes of violence, invasion, and bloodshed are left behind for a language of history and heritage that crosses borders in ways that further the trade ambitions of an increasingly networked China-driven economy.


China's Eurasian Century?

China's Eurasian Century?

Author: Nadáege Rolland

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 9781939131515

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China's Belt and Road Initiative has become the organizing foreign policy concept of the Xi Jinping era. The 21st-century version of the Silk Road will take shape around a vast network of transportation, energy, and telecommunication infrastructure linking Europe and Africa to Asia. Drawing from the work of Chinese official and analytic communities, China's Eurasian Century? Political and Strategic Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative examines the concept's origins, drivers, and various component parts, as well as China's domestic and international objectives. Nadáege Rolland shows how the Belt and Road Initiative reflects Beijing's desire to shape Eurasia according to its own worldview and unique characteristics. More than a list of revamped infrastructure projects, the initiative is a grand strategy that serves China's vision for itself as the preponderant power in Eurasia and a global power second to none.


China's Belt and Road: A Game Changer?

China's Belt and Road: A Game Changer?

Author: Alessia Amighini (a cura di)

Publisher: Edizioni Epoké

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 8899647631

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Officially announced by Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has since become the centrepiece of China’s economic diplomacy. It is a commitment to ease bottlenecks to Eurasian trade by improving and building networks of connectivity across Central and Western Asia, where the BRI aims to act as a bond for the projects of regional cooperation and integration already in progress in Southern Asia. But it also reaches out to the Middle East as well as East and North Africa, a truly strategic area where the Belt joins the Road. Europe, the end-point of the New Silk Roads, both by land and by sea, is the ultimate geographic destination and political partner in the BRI. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the BRI, its logic, rationale and implications for international economic and political relations.


All Roads Lead to Nowhere

All Roads Lead to Nowhere

Author: Alexander Skikos

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781636763675

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In a distant, dystopian future, the United States has fallen. The rich and elite live in the domed Paradise Cities, told what to think and how to live by narcissistic corporations that have formed a nefarious alliance with the government - no longer a democracy, secretly controlled by one man. The less fortunate are forced out into the barren wastelands. The remnants of the nuclear holocaust, where the environment has collapsed, referred to as Nowhere. Six desperate figures, each with different political motivations, struggle to survive. Hunted by the President's robot army and the dangerous members of the Wright Gang, divided by their own opposing viewpoints, they must come together and fight as one, or become more forgotten, lost souls. But even as they come to grips with their own human weaknesses, and try to overcome the obstacles thrown into their paths, the truth they must face is...All Roads Lead to Nowhere.


American Wheels, Chinese Roads

American Wheels, Chinese Roads

Author: Michael J. Dunne

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 047082865X

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How could one company—General Motors—meet disaster on one continent and achieve explosive growth on another at the very same time? While General Motors was hurtling towards bankruptcy in 2009, GM’s subsidiary in China was setting new sales and profit records. This book reveals how extraordinary people, remarkable decisions and surprising breaks made triumph in China possible for General Motors. It also shows just how vulnerable that winning track record remains. No small part of GM’s success in China springs from its management of shifting business and political relationships. In China, the government makes the rules for—and competes in—the auto industry. GM’s business partner, the City of Shanghai, is both an ally and a competitor. How does such an unnatural relationship work on a day-to-day basis? Where will it go on the future? General Motors also engages in constant battles with other global and Chinese car makers for the hearts of demanding Chinese consumers. Dunne gives us rare glimpses into the mindsets and behavior of this new moneyed set, the worlds newest class of wealthy consumers. China is already the number one car market in the world. During the next ten years, China will export millions of cars and trucks globally, including to the United States. American Wheels, Chinese Roads presents readers with fascinating illustrations of what to expect when Chinese cars, companies, and business people arrive on our shores.


The Belt Road and Beyond

The Belt Road and Beyond

Author: Min Ye

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1108479561

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This investigation uses state-mobilized globalization as a framework to understand China's capitalism and emergence as a global power.