The Symbiotic Relationship Between China’s Belt and Road Initiative Economic Investment Projects and its Global Military Presence
The Symbiotic Relationship Between China’s Belt and Road Initiative Economic Investment Projects and its Global Military Presence
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2019
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Cobile, Ashley
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Soguk, Nevzat
Zhou, Kate
Zhou, Kate
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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This research will investigate the calculated risks China is undertaking through soft power means in order to advance its economic interests in continents like Asia, Europe, and Africa. There is a symbiotic relationship between China’s growing global military posture and its economic investments abroad. My analysis will focus on China’s growing presence in international waters in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and its expansion into critical maritime chokepoints. In order to fully comprehend Chinese policies, I will examine President Xi Jinping’s global dependence project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I will also examine China’s strengthening ties with affiliated countries, its insertion of security personnel, weapons transactions, and the creation of infrastructures in those regions. Over time, the location of Chinese investments may contain strategic deep-water ports and military capabilities with the presence of China's People’s Liberation Army (PLA). China’s investments, coupled with the expansion of the PLA, are likely to present long-lasting economic and security challenges to the United States hegemony in the IOR and beyond. Data collected are from credible primary and secondary open sources. The compilation of references in my research contains publications, university journals, news articles, and official government reports, which further augments the argument of BRI investments containing a military presence in the future.
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Belt and Road Initiative,
Military,
Economic Investments
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34 pages
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