| Summary: | The book “One Belt One Road, Una Strategia di
Sviluppo Globale” is prepared as a response and a
deepening to the promotion of New Silk Road, also
called the Belt and Road Initiative (OBOR). The plan
of development of this new growing project was
initiated by Xi Jinping, President of the People’s
Republic of China, in 2013. It focuses on investment
for railway, highway and port construction and links
countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa together and
promote global cooperation and economic
development. It also representing the interests of
China for geopolitical and strategic influence.
The New Silk Road is a continuation of previous
initiatives, such as the Going out policy, promulgated
at the end of the Nineties to support, through a
liberalization of the regulations, outgoing foreign
direct investments of Chinese companies, in
particular state-owned enterprises, for the purpose
to improve international competitiveness and
protect the labor market from industrial conflicts.
The result has been a progressive
internationalization of Chinese public companies
and also private but still under the auspices of the
Chinese state. The OBOR, now renamed Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI), is the pillar of Chinese foreign
policy, on the basis of which the Chinese
government intends to build a future world order
that will have its reference point in the People’s
Republic of China. The BRI is as a platform for
promoting trade.
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