China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia

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<p>This book brings together a diverse range of responses to China's Marine Silk Road Initiative, which proposes to redraw the map of Asia, particularly South Asia. Chinas 21<sup>st</sup> Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) is a massive scheme to connect wide swaths of East, Southeast, South, and West Asia through a dense web of interconnected hard and soft infrastructure involving ports, roads, logistics facilities, special industrial zones, and free trade and investment agreements. This book will be invaluable for students of Chinese foreign security and foreign economic policy, those interested in South Asia including Indian foreign security and economic policy as well as Indian relations with China, those attentive to international economic developments in East and South Asia, and those interested in the political and economic situation in specific MSRI participant countries such as Pakistan, Maldives, and Sri Lanka as well as their political and economic relations with China. </p><p></p>

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<p>Jean-Marc F. Blanchard,&nbsp;is Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International and Area Studies, East China Normal University, China. He is Executive Director of the Mr.& Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, USA.&nbsp;He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited more than half a dozen books/special academic journal issues and nearly 50 book chapters and journal articles on topics relating to China and the World Trade Organization (WTO), Chinese foreign economic policy, foreign investment in China, Chinese outward investment, and Chinas sovereign wealth fund.&nbsp;</p>

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