Middle-Power Responses to China’s BRI and America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
A Transformation of Geopolitics
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Asia is at a geopolitical crossroads. After China launched its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Japan and the United States responded with the November 2017 promulgation of the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) Strategy. Perhaps not surprisingly, these two initiatives share some common features, and two of these - their ambiguity and their competitiveness - seem to be crucial in the foreign policy evaluation process. Competition leads to ambiguity, which makes reactions, and responses in foreign policy more and more difficult. Middle-Power Responses to China’s BRI and America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy addresses that gap.
Starting from the insight that neither the BRI nor the FOIP exists in isolation, and drawing on the knowledge that when either China or the United States sneezes, it is often the less powerful geopolitical players that catch the worst colds, the chapters gathered herein examine how the US-China geopolitical competition affects nations as diverse as Taiwan, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the member states of ASEAN. These insights are provided by an international, multidisciplinary group of leading experts that include military flag officers, academic researchers, current and former government officials, and retired diplomats, all of whom contribute to a well-rounded, multifaceted view of the transformation that is currently taking place in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific.
Part 1: Perspectives on the Competing BRI-FOIP Strategies
- Chapter 1. Geopolitical Templates, Trends, and Transformation: The Evolving Maritime Security Architecture and Implications for the Indo-Pacific; Lawrence Prabhakar Williams
- Chapter 2. Analysis of Legal Warfare and Corresponding Actions in the South China Sea; Ruei-Lin Yu
- Chapter 3. Clash of interests between China and the United States along the development of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road; Judit Szilágyi Chapter 4.The Romance of Three Economic Blocs: EU-China Economic Relations Evolving in an Era of Uncertainty; To-hai Liou
- Part 2: Responses by individual countries/regions
- Chapter 5. Europe-Asia Connectivity Strategy: A Balancing Act vis-à-vis China’s Belt and Road Initiative?; Mor Sobol
- Chapter 6. China’s Central Asian Nexus and the New Silk Road Project: Comparing the Cases of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; Pal Gyene
- Chapter 7. The Sino-American Geopolitics and Geo-economics from Taiwan to Sri Lanka and Beyond; Patrick Mendis and Joey Wang
- Chapter 8. ASEAN’s Perspective on The Belt and Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Strategy; Hank Lim
- Chapter 9. Philippine National Security Interests and Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and US Indo-Pacific Strategy; Rommel Banlaoi
- Part 3: Competition in the Digital Domain
- Chapter 10. Great Power Politics on information and communications technology: between the United States Blue Dot Network and China’s Belt and Road Initiative; Hon-min Yau
- Chapter 11. The Fight for Economic and Digital Supremacy in the New Bipolar World Order: The EU’s Response to Global Challenges; Teodora Wiesenmayer
- Chapter 12. Assessing the Economic and Political Success of the Digital Silk Road throughout the Indo-Pacific Region; Tobias Burgers
Dean Karalekas, Ph.D., is a research fellow affiliated with the Centre for Austronesian Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK.
Fu-Kuo Liu, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations and Professor in the International Doctoral Program in Asia Pacific Studies (IDAS), College of Social Sciences, National Chengchi University.
Csaba Moldicz, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Business and Management, Budapest Business School, Hungary.