Making Use of Geographic Advantage

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-175
Author(s):  
Ping Zhou ◽  
Zhanwen Zhang ◽  
Siwei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Location ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Business Regulation ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Silk Route ◽  
The One

The “One Belt One Road” strategy has been fully implemented since 2016, and the unlimited potential of Macau needs to be developed. The excellent geographic location enables Macau to be a significant geographic node on the maritime silk route; the internalized business regulation and advantages in talent enables Macau to be a significant regulation node of system ensuring the operation of the policy “One Belt One Road”; the advantages in political aspect enables Macau to be a significant financial node of the process of “One Belt One Road” financing and management.

scholarly journals Integration Perspectives of Eurasian Land-Based Transport Corridors: Empirical Evidence from the OBOR and Rail Baltica Initiatives

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-25
Author(s):  
Anatoli Beifert ◽  
Gunnar Prause ◽  
Yury Shcherbanin
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Silk Route ◽  
Framework Conditions ◽  
The One

Abstract Land-based Trans-Eurasian transport corridors, their current development and perspectives have been high on the political agenda in the last two decades not only in Europe and China but also in the transit countries such as russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. A number of conceptual initiatives are already being implemented. The Belt and road or the one Belt, one road (oBor) initiative on the Chinese side and the rail Baltica project from the European perspective have gained special attention. Big-scale infrastructural projects are also being implemented by transit countries, e.g., the construction of a motorway from China to Europe—from Kazakhstan via russia to Belarus—to facilitate the land-based shortcut for cargo transport within the Eurasian transport corridor. This article investigates the general framework conditions of infrastructural investments into projects related to Eurasian logistics and discusses strategic areas of intersection between the European activities and the new Silk Way. in the framework of the oBor initiative, this article also addresses the interaction of the Chinese–Kazakh–russian–Belarusian –polish railway transport, with a special focus on Belarusian–polish cross-border issues. The authors have participated in several projects focusing on transport corridors and discuss the research question of how different Eurasian land-based transport corridors can be integrated and which strategic role can the rail Baltica project play in the context of the new Silk route. The research is based on surveys, expert interviews, secondary data research and case studies.

In and out of the shadows

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan H. Karrar
Keyword(s):  
Western China ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Silk Route ◽  
Karakoram Highway ◽  
The One ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
Gilgit Baltistan ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter describes overland trade between Pakistan and China since 1969 until the present. Overland trade between the two countries takes place over the high-altitude Karakoram Highway, connecting Pakistan’s mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan region to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China. The Karakoram Highway is popularly described as a contemporary silk road; this idea has been reinforced by the 2013 announcement of the One Belt One Road initiative, which includes the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. In this chapter, I explore the relationship between a documented, regulated silk route trade and its shadows; shadows take the form of traditional pathways between the two countries that are no longer used, as well as the undocumented movement of licit goods and smuggling of illicit substances.

scholarly journals Brief Communication: Vehicles for development or disaster? The new Silk Route, landslides and geopolitics in Nepal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Sudmeier-Rieux ◽  
Brian G. McAdoo ◽  
Sanjaya Devkota ◽  
Purna Lal Chandra Rajbhandari
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Rural Roads ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Landslide ◽  
Silk Route ◽  
The One

Abstract. The One Belt, One Road (OBOR) policy, one of China's most ambitious foreign investment and policy initiatives, portends significant changes in the social, cultural and critically, the physical landscape of Nepal, which became a signatory in May 2017. The small, mountainous nation is sandwiched between the massive Indian and Chinese economies and the roads that link these two signify vehicles of change. There are plans for expanding several major trunk roads to pass from Tibet to India along existing routes that are already being impacted by increased trade, and the recent landslide victory of the left alliance (Communist and Maoists Centre) auger greater openness toward China. Rural villages adjacent to these roads will undoubtedly continue to tie into these roads via a network of poorly constructed feeder (rural) roads which are likely to increase environmental, economic and human risks associated with roadside landslides. This commentary elaborates on the above issues based on research on the occurrence of roads and landslides in Nepal with recommendations for improved road governance.

scholarly journals A Survey of Techniques for Constructing Chinese Knowledge Graphs and Their Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianxing Wu ◽  
Guilin Qi ◽  
Cheng Li ◽  
Meng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Knowledge Representation And Reasoning ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Development History ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
History Of ◽  
Knowledge Graphs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

With the continuous development of intelligent technologies, knowledge graph, the backbone of artificial intelligence, has attracted much attention from both academic and industrial communities due to its powerful capability of knowledge representation and reasoning. In recent years, knowledge graph has been widely applied in different kinds of applications, such as semantic search, question answering, knowledge management and so on. Techniques for building Chinese knowledge graphs are also developing rapidly and different Chinese knowledge graphs have been constructed to support various applications. Under the background of the “One Belt One Road (OBOR)” initiative, cooperating with the countries along OBOR on studying knowledge graph techniques and applications will greatly promote the development of artificial intelligence. At the same time, the accumulated experience of China in developing knowledge graphs is also a good reference to develop non-English knowledge graphs. In this paper, we aim to introduce the techniques of constructing Chinese knowledge graphs and their applications, as well as analyse the impact of knowledge graph on OBOR. We first describe the background of OBOR, and then introduce the concept and development history of knowledge graph and typical Chinese knowledge graphs. Afterwards, we present the details of techniques for constructing Chinese knowledge graphs, and demonstrate several applications of Chinese knowledge graphs. Finally, we list some examples to explain the potential impacts of knowledge graph on OBOR.

Łódź’s benefits from the One Belt One Road initiative

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Bartosiewicz ◽  
Paulina Szterlik
Keyword(s):  
One Belt One Road ◽  
The One
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