Kina: Stort udviklingsspring eller blot røde elefanter?

Great Game, Development Push, Or Red Elephants? – 

Behind China’s Global Infrastructure Geopolitics

Background

In recent years we have witnessed a dramatic surge in China’s foreign investment, particularly dedicated to large infrastructural projects around the world. The portfolio of Chinese companies now includes everything from roads and water dams to bullet trains, high-speed Internet, and satellite systems.

All policy fields, from development assistance to security policy, seem to be affected. What motivations and factors are behind this development? What does China’s leadership want to achieve with pushing for the establishment of the modern Silk Road?

Are China’s infrastructural policies sustainable, supported by novel political and financial institutions? How does the Silk Road change China’s view on the world? Can China continue large-scale investments in the mid- and long-term, including handling their political repercussions?

This seminar will debate conflicting answers to these questions and line out different options how other countries’ foreign, security, and development policies should be revisited in order to respond to China’s infrastructural geopolitics.

Speakers

Maximilian Mayer, Research Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai

Yang Jiang, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Luke Patey, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Peer Schouten, Postdoctoral fellow, DIIS

Programme

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http://www.diis.dk/event/great-game-development-push-or-red-elephants-behind-chinas-global-infrastructure-geopolitics