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Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order Kindle Edition
by Bruno Maçães (Author)
3.4 out of 5 stars 4 reviews from Amazon.com
Length: 288 pages Word Wise: Enabled Enhanced Typesetting:Enabled
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China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture.
Most importantly, it symbolizes a new phase in China's ambitions as a superpower: to remake the world economy and crown Beijing as the new center of capitalism and globalization.
Bruno Maçães traces this extraordinary initiative's history, highlighting its achievements to date, and its staggering complexity. He asks whether Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century?
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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 5545 KB
Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: Hurst (1 February 2019)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B07NF19VVV
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The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
Bruno Maçães
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$14.99
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Amazon.com: 3.4 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
wsmrer
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Belt and Road is China’s global development policy
28 February 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
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Bruno Maçães is immersed in his subject but the subject is not Xi Jinping’s proposals for rethinking the ancient Silk Road connecting China to Eurasia but the full implications of the changes that are in process across the globe, economic, political, and social remaking the world we know into the one that might follow; and the routes to that existence.
He might be called a roaming Intellect as he cites having been Europe Minister in the Portuguese government, has recently published The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, and now living in Beijing, his think tank the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University. Or an embodiment of Eurasia?
His treatment of ‘Belt and Road’ is rich describing its geological placement, its modifications as opportunities and oppositions develop, the unfolding of initial acceptance and the rethinking of recipients as the cost-benefit ratios are ‘discovered,’ and more interestingly Power Centers’ turmoil on how to deal with ‘the renewal of China’ as Xi chooses to call it.
“Instead of integrating into the existing world order, China could be creating a separate economic bloc, with different dominant companies and technologies, and governed by rules, institutions, and trade patterns dictated by Beijing.” p. 174
If the work has a failing it is some redundancy as he is pulling in material from previous publications, but the points he is making about the major changes implied by China’s development are the core of the study. You will seldom find as concise a treatment of world shaking events as those implied by Xi's One Belt One Road.
Everything you see in President Trump’s current meetings with General Secretary Xi regarding the ‘trade war,’ or the ‘trade dispute’ as the Chinese prefer to call it, currently fits well into Bruno Maçães treatment of the Struggle he forecast; he has alternative rendering of how the future could unfold less ominous than that Struggle.
Read the work to see how accurate he may have been on choosing outcomes. An enticing story well written.*
5 Stars
Bruno Maçães traces this extraordinary initiative's history, highlighting its achievements to date, and its staggering complexity. He asks whether Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century?
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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 5545 KB
Print Length: 288 pages
Publisher: Hurst (1 February 2019)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B07NF19VVV
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
Not Enabled
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
Bruno Maçães
Kindle Edition
$14.99
Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon.com
Amazon.com: 3.4 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
wsmrer
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Belt and Road is China’s global development policy
28 February 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
Verified Purchase
Bruno Maçães is immersed in his subject but the subject is not Xi Jinping’s proposals for rethinking the ancient Silk Road connecting China to Eurasia but the full implications of the changes that are in process across the globe, economic, political, and social remaking the world we know into the one that might follow; and the routes to that existence.
He might be called a roaming Intellect as he cites having been Europe Minister in the Portuguese government, has recently published The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, and now living in Beijing, his think tank the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University. Or an embodiment of Eurasia?
His treatment of ‘Belt and Road’ is rich describing its geological placement, its modifications as opportunities and oppositions develop, the unfolding of initial acceptance and the rethinking of recipients as the cost-benefit ratios are ‘discovered,’ and more interestingly Power Centers’ turmoil on how to deal with ‘the renewal of China’ as Xi chooses to call it.
“Instead of integrating into the existing world order, China could be creating a separate economic bloc, with different dominant companies and technologies, and governed by rules, institutions, and trade patterns dictated by Beijing.” p. 174
If the work has a failing it is some redundancy as he is pulling in material from previous publications, but the points he is making about the major changes implied by China’s development are the core of the study. You will seldom find as concise a treatment of world shaking events as those implied by Xi's One Belt One Road.
Everything you see in President Trump’s current meetings with General Secretary Xi regarding the ‘trade war,’ or the ‘trade dispute’ as the Chinese prefer to call it, currently fits well into Bruno Maçães treatment of the Struggle he forecast; he has alternative rendering of how the future could unfold less ominous than that Struggle.
Read the work to see how accurate he may have been on choosing outcomes. An enticing story well written.*
5 Stars
*An example: Xinjiang and its Uyghur population current in the news as a troubled region.
Maçães opens up the topic: “By 2023, Xinjiang will become the largest cotton textile industry base of China and the most important clothing export base in Western China. The largest city, Urumqi, will turn into the fashion capital of Central Asia.” pp. 100-101.
It may not be that easy.
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FCRichelieu
3.0 out of 5 starsNot another empty slogan
12 May 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a comprehensive study of China’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. It looks at what the initiative is about, its enormous scope, progress that has been made, and the economic and geopolitical implications not only on Euroasia, but the world as a whole.
While its contents are well-researched, the book reads rather like an academic dissertation. The author appears to have a tendency to use long sentences and paragraphs. Furthermore, given the strong geographical nature of the discussion, the reader will want to refer to relevant maps to appreciate the relationships among the many countries that are involved. I am disappointed that the author has not provided any in his book.
Gerardo Rodriguez
5.0 out of 5 starsBest reference available for the BRI
26 March 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a great book with a broad and differentiated perspective of how China is evolving their strategy to engage with the world. Well researched and well written2 people found this helpful.
Mr. Mark A. Siegel
1.0 out of 5 starsWorst Book In A while
25 March 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
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Suggest maps are a great way to track history but includes no maps. Worst book I have read in some time.One person found this helpful.
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