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.

New Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) crinoids from the Qijiagou Formation, Taoshigo Valley, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China

Palaeoworld ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.D. Webster ◽  
Johnny A. Waters ◽  
Zhuo-Ting Liao ◽  
Christopher G. Maples
Keyword(s):  
Western China ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

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.

Uncentred Minds

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Jonardon Ganeri
Keyword(s):  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
The World ◽  
Simone Weil ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

In this chapter I explore the relationship between Fernando Pessoa and Buddhism. I first introduce the brilliant French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–43), a contemporary of Pessoa but someone of whom he certainly had never heard. One way to read her remarks is as directed against the positional use of ‘I’, against the deployment in thought and speech of a positional conception of self. One should abandon forms of self-consciousness that are grounded in one’s thinking of oneself as the one at the centre of a landscape of sensation. For Weil, it is precisely such contact with reality as attention makes possible which holds the uncentred mind together, preventing its content being ‘a phantasmagoric fluttering with no centre or sense’. The uncentred mind would thus be a sort of conformal and aperspectival map of reality, standing in correspondence with the world without any privileged perspectival point. With these distinctions in mind, we say more of the mind of Alberto Caeiro, and address the question whether he is a Buddhist heteronym.

scholarly journals Draft Genome Sequence of Myroides sp. N17-2, a Multidrug-Resistant Bacterium Isolated from Radiation-Polluted Soils

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Liu ◽  
Liying Zhu ◽  
Zhidong Zhang ◽  
Ling Jiang ◽  
He Huang
Keyword(s):  
Multidrug Resistance ◽  
Genome Sequence ◽  
Draft Genome ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Draft Genome Sequence ◽  
Polluted Soils ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Multidrug Resistant Bacterium ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT We report here the 4.29-Mb draft genome sequence of Myroides sp. N17-2, a new bacterium isolated from radiation-polluted soils in Xinjiang, Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The acquisition of its genome will provide valuable information to reveal the relationship between radiation and multidrug resistance.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA-KAZAKHSTAN AND CHINA-UZBEKISTAN TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS (2013-2020): A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Mengkewuliji Mengkewuliji
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Western China ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Manufactured Products ◽  
Energy Independence ◽  
The One ◽  
Transit Routes

This paper explores the development of trade and economic relations between China and Kazakhstan, and China and Uzbekistan since the introduction of the "One Belt – One Road" initiative in 2013 until the economic slowdown in 2020. The author also compares the different ways in which China–Kazakhstan and China–Uzbekistan trade and economic relations were developed. The research reveals a significant role of the "One Belt – One Road" initiative in the rapid growth of bilateral cooperation between China and Kazakhstan, and China and Uzbekistan in the spheres of trade, infrastructure development, finance and energy. Kazakhstan and China put the emphasis on infrastructure development and trade, including the manufactured products. Uzbekistan and China focused on trade in energy resources. China's investment in both Central Asian countries grew equally, however Kazakhstan received more Chinese loans than Uzbekistan. China provided loans to both countries only on condition of their cooperation with Chinese companies operating in Central Asia. New transit routes were built within the framework of the "One Belt – One Road" initiative. China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan implemented joint highways projects such as the Kabul and Trans-Caspian corridors. While China and Kazakhstan developed continental infrastructure projects such as "Western China-Western Europe", China and Uzbekistan focused more on local programs such as the construction of the Kamchik tunnel. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan pursued different energy policies toward China. Kazakhstan was developing equal cooperation with China and Russia in energy sphere. Uzbekistan tried to pursue a policy of energy independence, and when it failed, it began to work more closely with China. Other significant differences between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan included their positions regarding the financial structures of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. During discussion of the SCO Development Bank project, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan supported Chinese and Russian projects respectively.

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 Regional Disparities on The New Silk Road: Some Thoughts about Regional Convergence

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Oldřich Hájek ◽  
Jana Novosáková ◽  
Michal Lukač
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Regional Convergence ◽  
Important Research ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Spatial Hierarchy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East West

Abstract Regional disparities are a research and political theme that has received considerable attention. This is also because regional disparities constitute a pull factor of migration, because high regional disparities may seriously threaten territorial integrity, and because socioeconomic development potential is not fully realized in lagging regions. Not surprisingly, regional disparities are an important research and political theme for New Silk Road countries and this is also reflected in the focus of this paper. The primary aim of this paper is to characterize regional disparities in selected New Silk Road countries, namely in China, in Russia and in Visegrad Four countries, and subsequently to discuss the relationship between regional disparities and the One Belt, One Road Initiative. The results point out the presence of a pattern of regional disparities in the countries. In this regard, the importance of the East-West gradient, of spatial hierarchy, and of inherited specialization is particularly emphasized. Reflecting the pattern of regional disparities, the potential of the One Belt, One Road Initiative to stimulate development of lagging regions is indicated.

scholarly journals Gender, Uyghur Identity, and the Story of Nuzugum

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1069-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between gender and Uyghur identity through the story of Nuzugum, the allegory of a Kashgar woman who kills an enemy outsider she is forced to marry rather than yield her chastity and bear his children. Tracing the story from its nineteenth-century roots to literary, artistic, and political incarnations in recent decades, the article argues that the story's prominence in the canon of Uyghur literature and its eponymous protagonist's place among Uyghur national heroes highlights the integral but overlooked role of gender in the construction of modern Uyghur identity. The resiliency of the story's gendered themes also underscores gender's importance in contemporary Uyghur political advocacy, especially advocacy about the transfer of Uyghur women to factories in China's coastal cities, an issue connected to the July 2009 protests and riots in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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