Ye Explores Aspects of China’s Belt & Road Initiative
On October 14, 2020 Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke during an event on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) hosted by Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
During the event, Ye discussed the BRI’s origins, its implementation, and its on-the-ground effects inside China. She drew on her latest book – The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998-2018 – to explain the international and, arguably more importantly, the domestic component of President Xi Jinping’s signature infrastructure project. She noted that in her research she found that many, if not most, BRI projects are either entirely domestic or have strong ties to domestic programs.
Ye explored different local governments’ approaches to the BRI by discussing how subnational entities have leveraged Beijing’s grand strategy and how the implementation of projects and programs related to the BRI facilitate local economic agendas. She concluded by discussing COVID-19 and its impact on China’s BRI.
A recording of the event can be found on the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center’s website.
Min Ye is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her most recent book, titled The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 (Cambridge University Press 2020), explores the motivations and strategies behind China’s global economic expansion and considers the implications of the country’s status as a global power on both China and the world. Read more about her here.