Maritime Silk Road and China’s Indian Ocean Strategy: An Analysis from the Perspective of Cooperative Security

2015 ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiegen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Cooperative Security ◽  
Maritime Silk Road

Belts and roads every- and nowhere: Conceptualizing infrastructural corridorization in the Indian Ocean

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 815-819
Author(s):  
Henryk Alff
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Other ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Static State ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The One ◽  
Human Actors

This article scrutinizes the Maritime Silk Road Initiative by framing it not as a static, state-centric device to channel Chinese developmental ambitions, but by emphasizing the flexible character of its production and the provisional configuration of its materialization. It draws on assemblage theory as a conceptual angle to, on the one hand, focus on the agentive character of human and non-human ‘actors’ such as ‘traveling’ discourses of development or infrastructures to explore Maritime Silk Road Initiative’s materialization ‘on the ground’ in its emergent rather than resultant way, on the other.

China's Indian Ocean strategy will be hotly contested

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
The United States ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Sphere Of Influence

Subject China's Indian Ocean strategy. Significance The Xi Jinping administration plans to integrate Eurasia and Africa more closely with China through investment and infrastructure, including pipelines, railways, roads and ports under the 'Silk Road Economic Belt' and 'New Maritime Silk Road' initiatives. The former is designed for Eurasia, the latter for the Indian Ocean. This is of growing concern to India, which sees the Indian Ocean as its sphere of influence. Impacts Indian Ocean stakeholders including the United States, India and Australia will cooperate to balance Chinese activities. China's ties with Persian Gulf countries will strengthen as China overtakes the United States as the largest crude oil importer. China's South China Sea and Indian Ocean strategies are interlinked on economic and security goals.

scholarly journals C-E Translation Practice of the Chapter “Maritime Silk Road of the Indian Ocean” of the Book The Silk Road

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 434
Author(s):  
Min Shen
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Hard Evidence ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Silk Road ◽  
Unique Status

The Silk Road written and edited by Professor Liu Yingsheng introduces the origin, rise and decline of the Silk Road and its unique status in world history. Through describing the evolution of the Silk Road and history and geography of countries along the route, this work reproduces the prosperity of the Silk Road at a time dated back to thousands of years ago. The chapter “Maritime Silk Road of the Indian Ocean” excerpted from the book describes intense cultural exchanges between ancient China and India, presenting hard evidence of strong ties between these two civilizations. This paper starts with brief introductions to source text analysis and translation preparations including pre-translation, while-translation and post-translation proofreading are then exemplified. Translation difficulties such as translation of proper names, specifically names of places and nations and of books and translation of classical Chinese are analyzed with examples and solutions proposed for reference.

Indian Ocean Listening Stations: Governmental Ears, Surveillance Acoustemologies, and the Maritime Silk Road

Diplomatica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-361
Author(s):  
Jim Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
The Press ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
A Site ◽  
In Virtue Of

Abstract In this article, I examine the discourse surrounding “listening stations” (surveillance outposts) that the Indian government has built to counter Chinese infrastructural projects in the Indian Ocean. As surveillance technologies are placed on out-of-the-way islands and deep underwater, the ocean is discursively situated in the press and diplomatic circles as a site where the geopolitical and sonic ‘noise’ of the metropole is evaded in virtue of the seeming fidelity of the sea, thus garnering potential for the listening stations to reveal China’s true geopolitical intentions. Drawing on classic securitization theory, as well as writings in the anthropology of security and sound studies, I argue that the positioning of listening stations as sites defined by listening and protection from Chinese encroachment obfuscates how they function as geopolitical speech and an expansion of Indian power. I coin the term “surveillance acoustemology” to refer to the ways that India’s listening stations spatialize India’s projected influence and its ability to hear its Chinese rival across the Indian Ocean.

The Dragon’s March into the Indian Ocean: Implications for International Trade

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Fred Jonyo ◽  
Samuel Mbutu
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Indian Ocean Region ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
String Of Pearls

Abstract This article reviews China’s engagement in the Indian Ocean Region, implications for international trade and strategies to mitigate its vulnerabilities. Premised on maritime theory, it argues that China’s interests in the Indian Ocean will influence its relations with India, extra-regional powers and African states. China is likely to leverage on its presence in the Indian Ocean to boost its levels of international trade volumes, while at the same time forge alternative strategies such as string of pearls, Maritime Silk Road and access through Myanmar to mitigate its vulnerabilities in the region.

scholarly journals Indian Ocean island sustainable development in the context of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Shuneng Zhong ◽  
Xili Wu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Indian Ocean Island

Island countries and territories are often subjected to standardized development strategies, which overlook the distinct needs of different island societies. Indian Ocean island countries and territories face certain shared sustainability challenges but also have their own diverse needs when it comes to sustainable development. This paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of 1) the overarching philosophies of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) projects and 2) the specific Indian Ocean island-focused initiatives that have formed part of the MSR. The aim is to ascertain the manner in which island sustainability is conceived by and pursued within the MSR framework. The article finds that the Chinese government envisions the MSR as a path toward transnational mutual benefit and pursuit of shared interests, with economic and environmental sustainability being mutually contingent and reinforcing. Focus is placed on bilateral and multilateral partnerships that advance sustainable development across the region and on Indian Ocean islands in particular. Although there is at present a lack of effective assessment of sustainability achievements within the MSR, this policy framework offers an opportunity for working toward sustainable development in a manner that suits diverse island needs.

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