THE NEW SILK ROAD: ONE BELT, ONE ROAD – A STRATEGIC POWER ASSET FOR CHINA
THE NEW SILK ROAD: ONE BELT, ONE ROAD – A STRATEGIC POWER ASSET FOR CHINA

Author(s): Silviu Neguţ, Marius-Cristian Neacşu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: The Silk Road; The New Silk Road; great power; global power; Eurasia; Eurasianism;
Summary/Abstract: China, the country considered, to be the engine for the global economic growth for some time, has, seemingly surprising, initiated the project of “The New Silk Road”, which is nothing more but a small part of a well-developed plan aiming to assert the main Asian pivot as a global power. Compared to “The Old Silk Road”, which owned only a land-based path, „The New Silk Road” follows two different paths (One Belt – the road onshore, One Road – the oceangoing route), whose undeclared purpose is to commercially surround the Eurasian super continent, giving Eurasia's context being the main geopolitical and Geo strategic stake of our time. While Russia mainly focuses on the theoretical concept of the Eurasian-ism, we notice China in action, operating.The initiative surprises, not only through its geographical dimensions amplitude (tens of thousands kilometers land and sea), but also, through its financial dimension (rolling unbelievable amounts of money). A relevant argument would be the foundation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,the only bank in the world whose nomenclature includes the “infrastructure” notion, such an important and circulated element nowadays

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