Belt and Road Initiative and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: geopolitical challenges
Pablo Ibanez
Pablo Ibanez, visiting scholar of FDDI, Fudan University, Ph.D in Geography, University o São Paulo. Worked as a visiting researcher at Institute of Applied Economic Research, IPEA. Author of several research articles on innovation and geopolitics.
Abstract
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is something extremely new and challenging. As a part of a strong effort looking toward a consolidation of Chinese power in the international scenario, the initiative is moving fast with all challenges, suspicions and critics (especially arising from the westerns analysts). What China is proposing is more than a revolutionary infrastructure project and that is the point. How can BRI move forward being such a giant step without any other example in a recent history? How can China prepare itself for the big challenges and conflicts that it will face on the way?