BOOK REVIEW: IVONA ANTONIETTA (2020), ONE BELT ONE ROAD, UNA STRATEGIA DI SVILUPPO GLOBALE

Abstract

The book “One Belt One Road, Una Strategia di Sviluppo Globale” is prepared as a response and a deepening to the promotion of New Silk Road, also called the Belt and Road Initiative (OBOR). The plan of development of this new growing project was initiated by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, in 2013. It focuses on investment for railway, highway and port construction and links countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa together and promote global cooperation and economic development. It also representing the interests of China for geopolitical and strategic influence. The New Silk Road is a continuation of previous initiatives, such as the Going out policy, promulgated at the end of the Nineties to support, through a liberalization of the regulations, outgoing foreign direct investments of Chinese companies, in particular state-owned enterprises, for the purpose to improve international competitiveness and protect the labor market from industrial conflicts. The result has been a progressive internationalization of Chinese public companies and also private but still under the auspices of the Chinese state. The OBOR, now renamed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is the pillar of Chinese foreign policy, on the basis of which the Chinese government intends to build a future world order that will have its reference point in the People’s Republic of China. The BRI is as a platform for promoting trade.

Keywords

• belt and road initiative
• the new silk road
• geostrategic alliances
• the maritime silk road
• global economy