China's Asian dream empire building along the new Silk Road
"China", Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President Xi Jinping declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the dominant powe...
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Zed Books
2019
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. "One belt, one road": Financing the New Silk Road - Belt and road initiative - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - Asia's infrastructure arms race. 2. Marching west: the economics of power in central Asia - Xinjiang - Central Asia - Russia. 3. In the heat of the sun: advancing down the Mekong - Laos - Cambodia. 4. California dreamin': how China "lost" Myanmar - Gateway to the Bay of Bengal. 5. A string of pearls: fear and loathing in the Indian Ocean - Indian Ocean - Pakistan - India - Sri Lanka. 6. Fiery waters: mapping the South China Sea - Vietnam