![]() The authors hope that their book creates public awareness in the US and elsewhere about the importance of BRI.The book offers to-the-point chapters on many regions including Southeastern Europe, Central, South and Southeast Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic and Space. Glantz worries that few Americans, including their political leaders are not so aware of current BRI affairs. This incident led to a potential“debt-trap” label for China’s loan arrangements. When the government could not keep up its loan payments, the Chinese took a major ownership share and a captured a 99-year lease to operate the port. BRI 2.0, he suggests, began with exposure of Sri Lanka’s debt repayment problem over its China-built Hambantota deep-water port. OBOR/BRI 1.0 represents the initial roll-out and early expansion of its bilateral infrastructure agreements in Asia, Africa and Europe. Glantz characterized his OBOR/BRI book as providing a background setting of an emerging BRI 3.0. Glantz confessed that a major challenge was in keeping up to date each week as new projects were agreed to and existing ones went through twists, turns and sometimes reversals. ![]() Specifically to the space and the polar silk roads. Influence.” They belatedly drew attention and concern and even ire of the US “Great Games,” that is, a worldwide competition for regional “spheres of That the emerging economic competition in different regions were similar to The decades-old model of Western development institutions. ![]() In developing countries on a fast track, using its model as an alternative to Sectors in China to engage in the country’s effort to put economic development China has become a global economic and political superpower in less thanĤ0 years: developing countries were keen to explore the China-fundedĭevelopment initiative with the hope of replicating its success in a matter of aĪnd belt as a “campaign” to energize and support different socio-economic To developing countries appeared less attractive when compared with the Chinese Although the US and the EU have been large international developmentĪid donors to the developing world, their model to provide financial assistance China’s development model isĪttractive to developing countries, because China was itself a developingĬountry. Public for what may prove to be one of the most forward-looking development Ross and Gavin Dougherty),Glantz set out to capture the enthusiasm of the OBOR/BRI had become a successful brand for China’s global infrastructure development theme and “dream.”Glantz’s first paper about Silk Roads was published in March 2017 in a Russian journal: “ One Belt One Road: What a difference a Brand makes.” Talk of silk belts and roads were attracting the interest of industrialized as well as developing economies but for different reasons. To see the bigger picture, however, about various aspects of BRI’s rapidly expanding development oriented “ecosystem,” he mapped out the expanding geographic and functional scopes of BRI-related projects on land, sea, air and in space. As media coverage of new OBOR/BRI projects were on the rise, he collected and categorized media accounts on China’s increasing number of new infrastructure activities. At the time, the Chinese initiative was not as much covered by Western mainstream media as it is today. Glantz first learned about OBOR in Spring of 2016. He has also lectured at several universities in China. In light of his multidisciplinary experiences, he has been invited to participate in various research consortia, most recently as an Advisory Committee member of the IRG ( international Integrated Risk Governance Program), headquartered at Beijing Normal University. He has written numerous articles and books on droughts and floods and desertification in various countries around the globe. His research interests are now mainly focus on climate-related disaster risk reduction and early warning systems. Glantz is the director of the Consortium for Capacity Building in the University of Colorado, Boulder where he conducts research on climate, water and weather and how they impact society. ![]()
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