China’s Global Reach

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.

Part I
The BRI/AIIB and China’s Global Reach



1 China’s Belt-Road Initiative as the Signature of President Xi Jinping Diplomacy: Easier Said than Done



2 In the Shadow of Strategic Rivalry: China, America, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank



Part II
The BRI/AIIB and China’s Domestic Politics



3 Fragmentation and Mobilization, Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China



4 Rhetorical legitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: evidence from Chinese state media



5 Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’?



6 From “Lamb Kebabs” to “Shared Joy”: cultural appropriation, ignorance and the constrained connectivity within the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative



7 Interwoven destinies: the significance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the China Dream, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Xi Jinping Legacy



Part III
International Responses to the BRI/AIIB



8 Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRT): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East



9 Beijing’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy and Belt and Road Initiative in the Sahel: The Case of China’s Growing Presence in Niger



10 Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear



11 Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies



12 China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States: Lessons from the Case of Djibouti.



13 India’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB: Struggling for Relative and Absolute Gains