Chinese Global Infrastructure

Klappentext Infrastructure is at the heart of China's presence in global development and is also central to larger debates about Chinese influence. This Element provides a comprehensive account of major Chinese government-financed infrastructure projects in the Global South since 1949. Using new datasets, it demonstrates that Chinese global infrastructure is distinct in terms of its historical tenacity and massive contemporary scope. But this does not imply that contemporary Chinese global infrastructure or the Belt and Road Initiative should be studied in a vacuum. Historical and comparative perspectives show that contemporary projects often emerge based on similar political logics to those that shaped infrastructure investment in earlier periods of Chinese history and other international contexts. The Element then examines how infrastructure projects have created both purposeful and unintended sources of influence by serving as valuable but risky political capital for host country governments as well as the Chinese government. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Vorwort The Element comprehensively analyzes Chinese global infrastructure and the underappreciated risks for China's international influence. Zusammenfassung This Element examines how infrastructure projects have created both purposeful and unintended sources of influence by serving as valuable but risky political capital for host country governments as well as the Chinese government. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Questions about infrastructure and influence; 2. The lineage of Chinese overseas development projects; 3. Chinese global infrastructure: high-profile and prestige projects; 4. The infrastructure-influence nexus; 5. The past, present, and future of Chinese global infrastructure; References; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Austin Strange, Austin (The University of Hong Kong) Strange, Strange Austin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009088343
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0908834-3
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Elements in Global China
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Development Studies, Development economics and emerging economies, Constitution: government & the state, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Railway technology, engineering and trades, Aid and relief programmes, Global South / Developing countries