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Editors' Words: Introduction to the Special Issue
Author(s) -
Andornino Giovanni B.,
Prodi Giorgio
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
china and world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.815
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1749-124X
pISSN - 1671-2234
DOI - 10.1111/cwe.12210
Subject(s) - citation , china , politics , library science , sociology , political science , law , computer science
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is increasingly regarded as Beijing’s most ambitious\udforeign policy proposition since Deng Xiaoping set China on a path of reform, opening\udup and maintaining a low profile in international affairs in the early 1980s. While it is\udstill in the process of being fully articulated, the BRI may be viewed as an overarching\udpolitical vision conferring strategic quality to a set of policy streams that aim to advance\udtransregional multilayered connectivity across Eurasia and Africa, and thereby establish\uda dynamic of development cross-acceleration between these regions and China