The End of the Chinese Century?

The End of the Chinese Century? : How Xi Jinping Lost the Belt and Road InitiativeBy Bertil Lintner₹ 499.00 inclusive of all taxesBuy NowOr from your local bookseller.Get notified when the book releases!Notify MeEmail MeXName *Email *Read and agree to the Privacy Policy & Terms of UseSubscribe to our newslettersubmitWe will notify you when the book is released!We will email you when the book is released!Please allow notification and avoid private mode for this feature to work.About the bookFacebookXEmailLinkedInMessengerShareThe Belt and Road Initiative, when first unveiled by Xi Jinping in 2013, was envisioned as even bigger and grander than America’s Marshall Plan. Famously referred to as the ‘New Silk Route’, it proposed an overland ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ connecting China with Europe through Central Asia and the ‘Maritime Silk Road’ that the Chinese claim existed in ancient times across the Indian Ocean. The BRI would not only restore China’s glory as a global trading nation, but also establish its status as the world leader, overtaking the United States.A decade later, not everyone in Asia and the Pacific shares Xi’s visions of a China-dominated future. Countries like Sri Lanka and Laos have fallen into Chinese debt traps due to the loans they took as part of the BRI, in others like Thailand and Central Asian republics, Chinese investment is unwelcome; and in some, like Pakistan, the opposition to China’s forays has been outright violent.In The End of the Chinese Century?, journalist Bertil Lintner takes us through the history of the BRI and China’s global expansionist plans. He casts and expert eye on the once-much-vaunted project’s future and what its failure might mean for the ‘Chinese Century’–and how that would affect India, which continues to be a counterpoint to China on the world stage.Pages: 256Available in: PaperbackLanguage: EnglishTAGSComing SoonHistoryPolitics and GovernmentOthers