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Quick questions on The Belt and Road Initiative explained: H2 China Studies
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What are the strategic motives?Show answer
The same projects also advance strategic ends, which is why the initiative is geopolitically consequential. By financing and building critical infrastructure across many countries, China builds influence over recipient governments and creates relationships of dependence and goodwill. Strategically located ports and facilities can offer access with potential future strategic or even military uses. The initiative extends Chinese economic and diplomatic reach, knits a network of states more closely tied to China, and projects China as a leading global power offering an alternative to Western-led development finance.
What is q1?Show answer
State two economic motives behind the Belt and Road Initiative. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain the "debt-trap diplomacy" critique and why it is contested. [12 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
"The Belt and Road Initiative is more about strategic power than development." How far do you agree? [20 marks]
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