After examining the Chinese government’s Chinese perspective, namely the stimulation Considering the state’s role in influencing own statements concerning the BRI and re- of external demand for Chinese commodi- the initiative’s direction and the logic of the The Chinese government’s Belt and ducing the multitude of official statements ties, services, and capital in the medium- and bureaucratic ins. [...] Connectivity is supposed the provision of infrastructure is intended to assessed in a few decades, it is already obvi- to be bolstered by the development of infra- facilitate the extraction of raw materials and ous today that the Belt and Road Initiative will JT: It is more like a bundling together of a structure, the creation of trade relations, and thus alleviate China’s dependence on other have. [...] The BRI economic reforms of the last few decades is not, as it is often described in the West, were accompanied by the development of a vast and coherent geopolitical masterplan, state structures through which the state and 4 thought out from the strategic planning stage public institutions—which in the Maoist peri- through to implementation to realization. [...] 2014 and 2015 development of a sustainable and environmentally-sound The introduction of initially empty political saw the organization of a large number of phrases is typical for the establishment of panels in various Chinese provinces, with economy, the problems associated with the country’s new political concepts and slogans. [...] The by the fact that the right to criticize China is em- the sharpened confrontation between China debate fluctuates between demonization phasized in advance, without the need for ac- With the rise of China, more than two and the USA.
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