By Weidong Liu, Michael Dunford                                              May 19, 2017    

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a call for an open and inclusive (mutually beneficial) model of cooperative economic, political and cultural exchange (globalization) that draws on the deep-seated meanings of the ancient Silk Roads. While it reflects China’s rise as a global power, and its industrial redeployment, increased outward investment and need to diversify energy sources and routes, the BRI involves the establishment of a framework for open cooperation and new multilateral financial instruments designed to lay the infrastructural and industrial foundations to secure and solidify China’s relations with countries along the Silk Roads and to extend the march of modernization and poverty reduction to emerging countries.

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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23792949.2016.1232598

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Jacopo A. Baggio, Shauna B. BurnSilver, Alex Arenas, James S. Magdanz, Gary P. Kofinas, and Manlio De Domenico Multiplex social ecological network analysis reveals how social changes affect community robustness more than resource depletion PNAS 2016 ; published ahead of print November 16, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1604401113.