Review and importance of the Silk Road Initiative; China's initiative for hegemony
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https://doi.org/10.69760/jales.2025001005Keywords:
Silk Road Initiative, Economic and Security Objectives, Challenges and Obstacles, Regional and Global HegemonyAbstract
The Silk Road Initiative is the largest initiative ever announced and implemented by a country on a global scale. It involves sixty-five different countries around the world and is estimated to cost four trillion dollars in 900 different projects. Moreover, this plan has broad economic, political, and security dimensions and objectives, and the aim of this article is to analyze and dissect its various dimensions.
In this regard, the main question of the article is: What is the Silk Road Initiative, China's most important strategy in the twentieth century, and what goals is it designed to achieve? In response to the above question, the article hypothesizes that China’s ultimate goal of operationalizing the Silk Road Initiative is to provide the economic, political, and security frameworks necessary to become a regional and global hegemon. However, the research findings show that this plan faces serious obstacles and problems and that ultimately China’s goals will not be achieved to a large extent. The present article intends to discuss the questions and hypotheses raised, along with the objectives, opportunities, and obstacles of the project in three sections and in a descriptive-analytical manner.
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