Belt and Road Initiative and South Asia

Kalyan Raj Sharma graduated from Fudan University with a doctoral degree in economics in 2011. He is now the Chair of Nepal China Friendship Forum(NCFF), visiting scholar at Kathmandu University and the Managing Director of Adventure Outdoor Group of Companies. During his doctoral studies at Fudan, Sharma published a number of academic papers in both Chinese and English on the economy and tourism of China and Nepal.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Contributors

List of Tables, Figures and Maps

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

Kalyan Raj Sharma

Part I: Big Picture

2. China’s Trade Imbalance with South Asian Nations: How Can the BRI Help?

Yin Xiangshuo

3. The BRI and SDGs Nexus: Cooperation or Confrontation?

Bhoj Raj Poudel

Part II: South Asia

4. BRI for Trade and Connectivity in South Asia: A CPEC Model

Hina Aslam

5. BRI, Trade and Connectivity: Bangladesh’s Perspective

Mahfuz Kabir and Nahian Reza Sabriet

6. Strengthening International Cooperation and Building a Community of Shared Future between Nepal and China

Yang Yabo and Zhang Jianghong

7. On Countermeasures and Suggestions to Further Economic Cooperation between China and Nepal

Di Fangyao, Cui Hongye and Yang Fan

8. Evidence and Lessons from BRI: The Case of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Vaqar Ahmed

9. The COVID-19 Pandemic and BRI 2.0

Partha S Banerjee

Part III: Lessons from Southeast Asia

10. Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Sustainable Development in Lao PDR

Vanxay Sayavong

11. Malaysia’s Response towards China’s Belt and Road Initiative under Mahathir 2.0

Nur Shahadah Jamil

12. Win-Win Cooperation through the BRI: What Constitutes a “Win” for the Philippines?

Darlene V. Estrada

Annexures

• Conference Agenda I (2018)

• Conference Agenda II (2019)

Index