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"This book analyses the progress, gains, and effects of Chinese overseas ports through in-depth and systematic studies of numerous cases in Europe and Latin America. China's participation in overseas ports, especially under the rubric of the Belt and Road Initiative, is a matter of great concern to businesspeople, policymakers, and researchers pondering the implications of Chinese infrastructure activities and overseas investment. Yet there is insufficient knowledge concerning the actual nature of China's role in specific ports, the economic and other consequences associated with that involvement, and the wider economic, political, and environmental effects of those economic effects. The chapters of this book fill these gaps by examining ports in diverse European countries like Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, and various Latin American countries including Brazil and Jamaica. The book illustrates why Chinese seaports succeed or fail, why they have the military, economic, and other consequences that they do, and why these consequences produce or fail to generate other effects such as political influence. This book will appeal to audiences with interests in China's overseas seaports, foreign direct investment (FDI), and infrastructure specifically and foreign direct investment, geopolitics, and the political economy of national security more generally"--

1.China's MSRI in Africa and the Middle East: Political Economic Realities Continue to Shape Results and Ramifications -- 2.The Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Connecting Africa -- 3.The Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Ethiopia: Transforming Policies, Institutions, and Politics in Expected and Unexpected Ways -- 4.Djibouti and Small State Agency in the Maritime Silk Road: The Domestic and International Foundations -- 5.Tanzania in China's MSRI: The "Chinese Dream" awaits Alignment with the African One -- 6.Iran in China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): Bounded Progress and Bounded Promise -- 7.The Missing MSRI in Iraq: The Southern Opportunity -- 8.The Gulf Cooperation Council's "Visions" of Maritime Silk Road Initiative Cooperation -- 9.Egypt in China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Relations Cannot Surmount Realities.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- China's MSRI in Southeast Asia: Dynamism Amidst the Delays, Doubts, and Dilemmas -- Introduction -- MSRI Features, Figures, and Fears -- SEA Relations with China in Historical Context -- SEA and China's MSRI -- ASEAN and the MSRI -- Chapter Summaries -- Conclusion -- References -- Are Southeast Asian Countries Willing to Join the Chorus of China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative? -- Responses of SEA Countries to China's MSRI: Overview and Measurement -- Tier 1 Countries -- Symbolic Gestures -- Concrete Measures -- Tier 2 Countries -- Symbolic Gestures -- Concrete Measures -- Tier 3 Countries -- Symbolic Gestures -- Concrete Measures -- Domestic Politics and SEA Support for the MSRI -- Elite Legitimation -- Trust/Public Opinion -- Leader Ideology and Preferences -- Societal Resistance -- Conclusion -- References -- China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Indonesia -- Introduction -- The Origins of MSRI and GMF -- China-Indonesia Economic Relations -- MSRI Projects in Indonesia: The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) and Others -- The Role of Rini -- Two Proposals Compared -- Split Within the Cabinet -- Pre-Jokowi Projects -- Chinese Companies in Indonesia and Their Partners -- Bilateral Issues Relevant for the MSRI's Future Progress -- Historical Distrust and Fear of China's Economic Domination -- Anti-Ethnic Chinese Sentiments -- Mainland Chinese Workers -- Conclusion -- References -- Malaysia and China's MSRI: The Road to China Was Taken Before the (Maritime Silk) Road Was Built -- Introduction -- Malaysia-China Political Relations -- Malaysia's Economic Links with China -- Trade -- Investment -- MSRI Projects in Malaysia -- MSRI Paving the Way to Sino Centrism? -- Malaysia's Supportive, Not Servile China Stance.

The raging debate about China's mega Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) falls into two extreme camps, those that forecast earthshattering effects and those, focused on the MSRI's numerous contemporary challenges, that see China's scheme as stagnating or failing. This study plunges into the debate by conducting a macro- and micro-level analysis of the MSRI. The macro-level analysis indicates that the MSRI is not having transformative economic effects. Neither does it show that the MSRI is significantly stalling or collapsing. The microlevel analysis, which focuses on Africa and the Middle East, demonstrates that the MSRI is being embraced and realized in different degrees and highlights reasons for this variation. The article further summarizes and distills various insights flowing from the other pieces in this special issue. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

There is raging speculation about the potential implications of China's One Belt, One Road (OBOR)/Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the global order, spheres of influence and the positions of extra-regional powers. Much commentary is overly broad and lacks a clear and systematic method for examining OBOR/BRI's future consequences. Focusing on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), a major OBOR/BRI component, in the Southeast Asian context, this article shows China's own situation and Southeast Asian international and domestic economic and political variables will hinder the complete implementation of the MSRI. Even if the MSRI is fully realized, various factors will limit the political impact of the MSRI's economic attractions. In short, the MSRI is more likely to yield a Chinese pond than a Chinese lake. (J Contemp China/GIGA)