The Maritime Channel in Southeast Asia and China’s Strategic Pivots

With its transition from land power to sea power and the rapid expansion of its national interests, the security of maritime channels has become an important agenda for China. China has shifted its focus from the dilemma of Malacca Strait to the construction of a sea-lane network in its bid to protect its maritime rights and interests. To build its sea power as a strong nation, China should follow its “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” strategy and establish its strategic pivots at harbors at Sumatra Island and Kalimantan Island in Indonesia so as to improve its ability to ensure its navigational safety.     

Reflections on Maritime Parmership： Building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road

The ＂Silk Road＂ is a general term used to geographically describe ancient Chinese exchanges between Asia, Europe and Africa in the areas of politics, economics and culture. Starting on land and developing on sea, the ＂Silk Road＂ is a vehicle of historic importance for the dissemination of culture. The ancient maritime Silk Road was developed under political and economic backgrounds and was the result of cooperative efforts from ancestors of both the East and West. China＇s proposal to build a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is aimed at exploring the unique values and concepts of the ancient road, enriching it with new meaning for the present era and actively developing economic partnerships with countries situated along the route. Specifically, the proposal seeks to further integrate current cooperation in order to achieve positive effects.     

Borrow Internationally Well-known Concepts to Introduce the "Belt and Road" Strategy

<正>The initiation of the"Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21~(st)-Century Maritime Silk Road"strategy("Belt and Road"strategy)in the fall of 2013 has promoted both the offshore and maritime development between China and its neighbors.In the beginning of 201S,the Chinese Government officially announced the implementation of the"Belt and Road"strategy.As an international-     

英文摘要

There are different viewpoints in India about China＇s proposal of building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Some assert that India and China should cooperate on marine issues, others insist that India has to contain China＇s influence on the Indian Ocean. Most of the Indian strategic community believe that the government needs prudence in reacting to the proposal. New Delhi will probably limit its participation in this effort and make the final decision based on an assessment of whether China will project power or build military utilities on the Indian Ocean.     

日本介入南海问题的动向及影响（英文）

正Japan is not a claimant country of the South China Sea.However,it has been meddling in the South China Sea issue in recent years.Japan’s meddling has brought greater uncertainties to the already complicated situation,and it increases the challenges China faces in safeguarding its maritime rights and its initiative for the development of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.     

Strategic Significance of the 21~(st) Century Maritime Silk Road and Tactics in its Development

正In a speech delivered at the Indonesian Parliament in October 2013,Chinese President Xi Jinping said:"we should further strengthen our maritime partnerships and jointly build the 21st century Maritime Silk Road",articulating China’s willingness to beef up maritime cooperation with ASEAN countries.The Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on     

Securing the New Silk Road

The renewed Chinese ambitions to develop trade along the different branches of the Silk Road bring several new traditional and non-traditional security challenges. The Chinese government has vowed to address them with new security concepts. Yet, these concepts might not be adequate to advance China’s security interests. Moreover, China seems to have difficulties overcoming the contradictions between different security interests: the quest for prosperity and the safeguarding of security; China’s economic aspirations and their consequence of becoming the largest economy; peaceful development and unification with Taiwan and the regain of lost territories; and the dilemma in the guiding diplomatic principles. As a result of these contradictions, Europe faces three uncertainties: How will the tensions in the Pacific develop? How will China seek to defend its interests along the New Silk Road? How will the tensions in the Pacific affect China’s behavior in the common Eurafrasian interface? These uncertainties bring about two more strategic choices for Europe: trying to continue its work with China along the Silk Road and balancing; prioritizing the huge challenges in the wedge of hardship and Europe’s immediate neighbourhood and responding calls to join the United States in its rebalancing to the Pacific. This will make it difficult to establish meaningful cooperation and to work towards burden sharing with the European Union at the other end of the Silk Road.     

Win-win cooperation: when ASEM Meets the Belt and Road Initiative

<正>Introduction The Belt and Road Initiative is set to be a grand project to enhance connectivity between Asia and Europe.When the ideas of the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk     

“一带一路”与洲际基础设施走廊的联通——评《新丝绸之路成为世界大陆桥》（英文）

正Since its inception in 2013 when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Central Asia and Southeast Asia,the Belt and Road Initiative,namely the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road,has received much attention both at home and abroad.With the progress of the Initiative and the emergence of early harvests,planning and research for the Belt and Road Initiative are now high on the agenda in China     

B&R,AIIB: Opportunities for Enhancing FDI in South Asia

Implementation of China's Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (B&R) initiative and the advent of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have redirected attention to infrastructure building in economic development.The domestically driven B&R policy is rewriting the geoeconomic and geopolitical map of Eurasia,while AIIB catalyzes a positive change in the dynamics of international development cooperation.They provide opportunities for South Asia which has economic potential but limited foreign investment inflow thus far.     

新时代中国海洋维权理念与实践

As China is ushering in a new era of national development,the global environment is becoming increasingly volatile.Faced with a complex situation in the adjacent maritime waters,the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC),with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core,has put forward a farsighted and important strategic plan to transform China into a maritime power,including a series of concepts and practices specifically intended to safeguard China’s maritime rights and interests in the new era.A comprehensive analysis and summary of these concepts and practices will not only clarify what these rights and interests are,but it also bears theoretical and practical significance to correctly understand the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy,and better safeguard China’s maritime rights and interests.     

全球视野之“一带一路”（英文）

正What is the Belt and Road Initiative?In September 2013 in Kazakhstan,Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed countries work together to build a Silk Road Economic Belt.A month later in Indonesia,he further proposed to join hands with other countries to create a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.Connecting the two economic circles     

Australia's Synergy with the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" Initiative and Its Prospect

Australia' s development and infrastructure plans have synergy with China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative,and their political,economic,trade,financial and civil exchanges have deepened bilaterally.However,as the synergy of the development strategies meets challenges,China should stick to the principle of opening-up and inclusiveness to cope with the ups and downs coming up in the China-Australia relationship so as to ensure Australia can contribute positively to the initiative.     

中国的“一带一路”倡议:韩国的视角(英文)

<正>China’s new grand strategy,the Belt and Road(BR)Initiative,has two primary components:Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt(SREB)in September 2013 during a visit to Kazakhstan,and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Route Economic     

“一带一路”:中国的马歇尔计划?(英文)

<正>With the "New Silk Road" initiative(known as the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road)being gradually elucidated and corresponding measures unveiled,there is growing talk at home and abroad about the"New Silk Road"being the equivalent of the U.S.Marshall Plan aimed at rebuilding Europe after the Second World War.     

Sino-European Cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative: Drive,Dynamics, and Prospect

After China's President Xi Jinping visited Central Asia and Southeast Asia in 2013 and proposed jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road,the so-called One-Belt-One-Road initiative has become a dominant concept in China's diplomacy and foreign policy.     

Silk Road Economic Belt： A Dynamic New Concept for Geopolitics in Central Asia

In the autumn of 2013 two notable opening-up and diplomatic initiatives were forthcoming from China. One was the concept of a ＂Silk Road Economic Belt＂ put forward by President Xi Jinping during his visit to the Central Asia, and the other was the convocation of the conference on the diplomatic work towards neighboring countries held in Beijing in October, which, due to the finalization of strategic objectives for China＇s diplomatic work towards neighboring countries in the next five to ten years, was of great significance to the realization of the two centenary goals laid down at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, ushering in a brand- new geopolitical situation in Central Asia.     

经济全球化背景下的“丝绸之路经济带”国际学术研讨会综述(英文)

On December 11,2013,the international conference on the Silk Road Economic Belt in the Context of Economic Globalization was hostedby the China Institute of International Studies(CIIS)in Beijing.About 60 participants,including experts from China,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan and Uzbekistan,officials from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)secretariat,diplomats from the embassies in China of the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States(CIS),officials from China’s Foreign Ministry and former Chinese ambassadors to the CIS states,attended the conference.The participants agreed that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Silk Road Economic Belt initiative encapsulates the trend of the times and is of greathistorical significance.The Silk Road Economic Belt will bring new historic opportunities and huge benefits to the economic development of the countries within the belt.This initiative proposed by China will be enriched with specific content with the active participation of the relevant countries over a long period.The major points expressed at the symposium were as follows.     

“民心相通”:认知误区与推进思路(英文)

<正>During his visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in 2013,President Xi Jinping advocated that China and its neighbors join hands to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road,now known as the Belt and Road Initiative.To this end,he put     

CIIS President Su Ge Gives Lecture on Belt and Road Initiative

正Upon the invitation of the Hong Kong Maritime Silk Road Society,Dr.Su.Ge,President of China Institute of International Studies,gave a lecture on"The Belt and Road Initiative in International Perspective"in Hong Kong on January 23,2016.The lecture was presided over by Mrs.Regina IP LAU Suk Yee,Legislative Council Member and Co-Chair of Maritime Silk