Abstract
Li Xing and Paulo Duarte summarize the various debates on the Chinese One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative presented in each chapter and find that, although the OBOR initiative generates a mixture of hope and fear, it also resembles pragmatism and adjustment of China’s foreign policy to the requirements of domestic and international realities. The OBOR initiative reflects a multifaceted interplay of realism, liberalism, constructivism, and altruism between China and the rest of the world. It is expected that the rise of China and the principal powers of the existing world order will have to go through a considerable period of struggle, adjustment, and tension.
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Notes
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According to the Copenhagen School, securitization is a process whereby a securitizing agent tries to establish, socially, the existence of a threat to the survival of a unit. When a subject is securitized, it comes out of the scope of normal policy and moves into the scope of emergency policy, which usually legitimates the use of force (Buzan et al. 1998).
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This is a Chinese idiomatic expression which means “to hide brightness, and to nourish obscurity”. Its underlined notion reflects an implicit strategic choice, namely to wait for a time when China is ready to assert itself in the global sphere and is ready to make a challenge.
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This is also a Chinese idiomatic expression which is semantically connected with the “Tao Guang Yang Hui” aphorism (see note 2). It stands for “striving for achievement” and “making a difference” after a period of accumulation of physical and psychological strength.
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Xing, L., Duarte, P. (2019). Conclusion: The One Belt One Road in the Politics of Fear and Hope. In: Xing, L. (eds) Mapping China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ Initiative. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92201-0_11
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