Author:
Kashmeri, Sarwar A. author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintSanta Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019]
Descriptionxv, 171 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Note:"Foreign Policy Association Centennial Book" -- Dust jacket
Note:China's Belt and Road initiative -- BRI: A Marshall plan on steroids -- The belt and road in action -- Africa, BRI's meeting place -- Toward an American grand strategy for China -- Appendix: BRI projects list.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index.
Note:"In this first book to use China's Belt and Road Initiative as a point of departure to explain why and how China is about to supersede American with regard to influence in Asia, Sarwar Kashmeri argues that the United States has a narrow window of opportunity to find a way to fit into a world in which the rules of the game are increasingly set by China. U.S. opposition to the Belt and Road Initiative is doomed to failure, so America must find creative ways to engage China strategically. The Belt and Road Initiative is China's ambitious project to connect itself to more than 70 countries in Central Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East through new roads, rails, ports, sea lanes, and air links. This cornerstone of Chinese foreign policy is positioning China at the center of over half of world trade, and the loss of American influence and power could lead to the end of the postwar liberal world order. Far more than merely an infrastructure investment, the Belt and Road Initiative is a masterful grand strategy to create nothing less than a new world order based on the Chinese model of government and its financial institutions. Yet, as the passing of the baton of world leadership takes place, the United States seems curiously incapable or uninterested in devising a counterstrategy." --Dust jacket.
