Belt, Road, and Circle: The Arctic and Northern Europe in China's Belt and Road Initiative

Sørensen offers a much-needed analysis of the how the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) links to China’s growing interests and ambitions in the Arctic showing how China is using the BRI to further intensify and strengthen relations with the Nordic countries in the Arctic. Conducting...

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Main Author: Nørup Sørensen, Camilla Tenna
Other Authors: Zhang, Wenxian, Alon, Ilan, Lattemann, Christoph
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Palgrave/Macmillian 2018
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Online Access:https://pure.fak.dk/da/publications/belt-road-and-circle-the-arctic-and-northern-europe-in-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative(6db59be7-5bff-44c7-8e8e-129281144460).html
https://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9783319754345
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Summary:Sørensen offers a much-needed analysis of the how the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) links to China’s growing interests and ambitions in the Arctic showing how China is using the BRI to further intensify and strengthen relations with the Nordic countries in the Arctic. Conducting a comparative analysis, the chapter further draws attention to how especially geography and certain domestic circumstances and considerations play into how the Nordic countries’ see and engage with the BRI as it broadens to the Arctic and to Northern Europe. Sørensen concludes with a critical discussion of why the Nordic countries are not cooperating to a higher degree despite growing Chinese efforts in recent years to introduce a 5+1 mechanism for high-level Nordic-China interactions.