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Unfolding Black And White Of China’s Bri In The Indian Ocean: Narratives, Perceptions And Public Diplomacy

Nong Hong
Nong Hong

Executive Director & Senior Fellow

Description:

In 2015, China released its “Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Belt and Road”, describing a “Silk Road Spirit” characterized by “peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefits”. However, with China’s economic growth and increasing global influence, China’s BRI practices have encountered such criticisms as ‘debt trap’. This presentation explores the narrations and perceptions of Indian Ocean littoral states and of western media on China’s BRI and provides a Chinese perspective responding to these perceptions. The China-US geopolitical competition in Indian Ocean will also be discussed in the context of United States’ own initiative, the Blue Dot Network, as the counterweight that will compete with China’s spreading global influence through the BRI.

Product Details:

ublisher: Polaris – Journal of Maritime Research (P-JMR): Volume 3, Issue 1

Publication Date: December 12, 2021

About the Author:

Nong Hong

Nong Hong

Executive Director & Senior Fellow

Dr. Nong Hong holds a PhD of interdisciplinary study of international law and international relations from the University of Alberta, Canada and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the University’s China Institute. She was ITLOS-Nippon Fellow for International Dispute Settlement (2008-2009), and Visiting Fellow at Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (2019), the Center of Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia (2009) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2007). She is concurrently a research fellow with China Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, and the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, China. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining international relations and international law, with focus on International Relations and Comparative Politics in general; ocean governance in East Asia and the Arctic; law of the sea; international security, particularly non-traditional security; and international dispute settlement and conflict resolution.