The Geopolitics of China's Overseas Port Investments

A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Pakistan

Bibliographic Data

ID3948591
AuthorsMoneeba Iftikhar (0000-0002-1068-8676, Department of Government & Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Jing Vivian Zhan (0000-0002-3054-0265, Department of Government & Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume27
Issue3
Pages826-851
Publication date2022-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2020.1832473
OpenAlexW3095526799
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited56

With China’s continuous rise and growing external commercial, strategic, and political endeavours, questions have arisen about the motivation, timing, and locale of China’s outreaching strategies. This research analyzes China’s overseas port investments through a comparative study of Greece and Pakistan, two important partners of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Adopting the neoclassical realist framework and drawing on expert interviews, official statistics, and policy documents, this paper reveals how China’s economic security objectives in combination with changing geopolitical structures led to its external port investments. This research contributes to the studies on rising powers and geopolitics by showing how China as a rising power capitalizes on geopolitical opportunities created by the changing interests of dominant powers to expand its presence in strategically important regions

China · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geopolitics · International trade · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Sociology · Belt and Road Initiative · Engineering · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law