No. 195: One Belt, One Road: China’s Vision of “Connectivity”

Author(s): Stephen Aris
Editor(s): Christian Nünlist
Series Editor(s): Christian Nünlist, Matthias Bieri
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 195
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Place: Zurich

President Xi Jinping has outlined plans to construct huge infrastructural links to better connect China with the rest of the world. This strategic vision of a “New Silk Road” is now more often referred to as the “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative. Beijing is allocating huge amounts of finance to the project, but China’s neighbors remain wary of OBOR’s geopolitical implications.

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