Gvantsa Gogaladze

It is a development strategy proposed by

the Chinese president Xi Jingpin in 2013
to further connect the mainland with the
rest of the world via two main routes.

New Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB),

21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR),
They are expected to feature
prominently in China’s 13th Five-Year
Plan, which will run from 2016 to
2020 and guide national investment
strategy throughout that period.
China’s official media outlets show

the “Belt”

“as a planned network of overland

road and rail routes, oil and natural
gas pipelines, and other infrastructure
projects that will stretch from Xi’an in
central China, through Central Asia,
and ultimately reach as far as Moscow,
Rotterdam, and Venice”
.
the “Road”.
is its maritime equivalent:
“A network of planned port and other
coastal infrastructure projects that dot
the map from South and Southeast
Asia to East Africa and the northern
Mediterranean Sea.”
The New Eurasia Land Bridge, also known as
the Second Eurasia Land Bridge, is an
international railway line running from
Lianyungang in China’s Jiangsu province
through
Alashankou in Xinjiang to Rotterdam
in Holland.
Linked by land, China, Mongolia and
Russia have long established various
economic ties and co-operation by
way of frontier trade and cross-border
co-operation
The China-Central Asia-West Asia
Economic Corridor runs from Xinjiang
in China and exits the country via
Alashankou to join the railway
networks of Central Asia and West
Asia before reaching the Mediterrane
an coast and the Arabian Peninsula.
Currently, the countries along the
Greater Mekong River are engaged in
building nine cross-national highways
connecting east and west and linking
north to south in
Indo-China peninsula
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
one of the first of the 6 corridors to start
construction is receiving $46bn and a
further injection of $1.6bn agreed in
August. The scale and scope of how large
this is, the investment from China is
approximately 20% of Pakistan’s GDP.
Official representatives from the four
countries conducted in-depth discussions
with regard to the development prospects
priority areas of co-operation and
cooperation mechanisms for the economic
corridor.
China has grown too fast and their
economy is reaching to that point
where they will need to readjust/
restructure their economy..

OBOR is result of finding new ways,

new opportunities..
China gets in that point where they
understand that they can’t do
“traditional trades”.

It’s one way a stimulation from

China to these countries for
developing infrastructure, so they
can promote their economic growth.
 Win-Win situation

Good for Other Countries – Economical

development and a lot of money flow
from China

Good for China - More developed

neighbors create opportunities of
trade and investment for China.
 Many think that

The “OBOR” has been referred to as

China’s version of the “Marshall Plan.
 US China

Boosting exports
• After WWII US was a •Today CN is very strong
strong manufacturing manufacturing country
country • equipped with high
• equipped with high industrial capacity
industrial capacity • Looking for a
• But there was no
MARKET NEW MARKET
 US China

Exporting currency
• The Marshall Plan •China is also seeking

allowed the United Stats to To increase the international

export its currency. use of its currency.
 US China

Fostering strategic divisions

• In order to prevent the •OBOR allows China to foster
geopolitical risk of a bilateral integration with
Countries who are
possible Soviet Union-
still looking up to US.
Germany coalition, the •OBOR limits the chance of
Marshall Plan forming of coalitions against
strengthened political China
and economic ties
between West Germany
and Western Europe.
All thou there are a lot of similarities
between Marshal Plan and OBOR

China states that the two strategies

are not comparable.
The US$40 billion Silk Road Fund has
been established to finance the Belt
and Road Initiative. It will invest
mainly in infrastructure and resources
as well as in industrial and financial
cooperation
AIIB will focus on the development of
infrastructure and other productive
sectors in Asia, including
energy and power, transportation and
telecommunications, rural infrastructure
and agriculture development, water supply
and sanitation, environmental protection,
urban development and logistics.
Joined 57 countries

But among these 57 countries are not

US and Japan
Some are saying that CN from the
start excluded US and Japan from
this initiative.
1.Why OBOR has such a big interest and why it became such a huge
topic in media and in world political arena?
2.What you think why did President Xi Jinpin proposed OBOR
strategic initiative?
3.Why he Called silk road a foreign policy priority for China? What is
Beijing trying to achieve with this initiative?
4.How does one belt one road help achieve China’s economic
objectives and diplomatic goals?
5.What impact will this initiative make in Geo-political scale?
6.Do you think that this initiative will be successfully done?
7.If OBOR initiative succeeds how world will going to change?
8.Do you think China has a hidden motives?
9.Why so many countries what to be a part of this initiative project?
What they expect to gain from OBOR?
10. Is OBOR China’s Marshal plan?
11. Every country where China will invest to develop the
infrastructure what they need to be aware about?
12.What you think why US and Japan do not join AIIB? Does they
feeling threatened by AIIB? If yes why?