The production of a trans-regional scale

China’s ‘One Belt One Road’imaginary

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ID20076994
AuthorsNgai-Ling Sum (0000-0002-4285-1351), Ngai‐ling Sum (corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-07-27
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHandbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4337/9781785365805.00046
OpenAlexW2917672651
ISBN9781785365805
LanguageEN
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This entry locates the production of China’s new trans-regional scale of One Belt One Road (OBOR) in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. In response to falling exports and unemployment, the Chinese leadership launched a four trillion Renminbi stimulus package which intensified its property, infrastructure and, later, the financial asset bubbles between 2010 and 2015. This crisis-pronged period coincided with the transfer of leadership and in anticipation of falling growth rate, it promotes a new trans-regional imaginary of OBOR with the hope of displacing its excess capacities abroad. The entry examines these changes via a discursive-material approach. First, it examines the discursive production of this new scale via the construction and negotiation of geoeconomic and geopolitical tropes. Second, it examines how this body of knowledge contributes towards the making of two inter-related governance configurations which form the bases for an emerging but contradictory infrastructural–infocommunication–finance complex in the shadow of global capitalism

Arrow · Capitalism · China · Corporate governance · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Financial crisis · Geopolitics · Keynesian economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Negotiation · Political science · China's Global Influence and Migration · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · International Development and Aid · Finance

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