Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.

• Part IThe BRI/AIIB and China’s Global Reach1 China’s Belt-Road Initiative as the Signature of President Xi Jinping Diplomacy: Easier Said than Done2 In the Shadow of Strategic Rivalry: China, America, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment BankPart IIThe BRI/AIIB and China’s Domestic Politics3 Fragmentation and Mobilization, Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China4 Rhetorical legitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: evidence from Chinese state media 5 Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’? 6 From “Lamb Kebabs” to “Shared Joy”: cultural appropriation, ignorance and the constrained connectivity within the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative 7 Interwoven destinies: the significance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the China Dream, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Xi Jinping Legacy Part IIIInternational Responses to the BRI/AIIB8 Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRT): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East9 Beijing’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy and Belt and Road Initiative in the Sahel: The Case of China’s Growing Presence in Niger10 Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear11 Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies12 China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States: Lessons from the Case of Djibouti.13 India’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB: Struggling for Relative and Absolute Gains

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.

• Part IThe BRI/AIIB and China’s Global Reach1 China’s Belt-Road Initiative as the Signature of President Xi Jinping Diplomacy: Easier Said than Done2 In the Shadow of Strategic Rivalry: China, America, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment BankPart IIThe BRI/AIIB and China’s Domestic Politics3 Fragmentation and Mobilization, Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China4 Rhetorical legitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: evidence from Chinese state media 5 Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’? 6 From “Lamb Kebabs” to “Shared Joy”: cultural appropriation, ignorance and the constrained connectivity within the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative 7 Interwoven destinies: the significance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the China Dream, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Xi Jinping Legacy Part IIIInternational Responses to the BRI/AIIB8 Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRT): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East9 Beijing’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy and Belt and Road Initiative in the Sahel: The Case of China’s Growing Presence in Niger10 Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear11 Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies12 China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States: Lessons from the Case of Djibouti.13 India’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB: Struggling for Relative and Absolute Gains

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.

• Part IThe BRI/AIIB and China’s Global Reach1 China’s Belt-Road Initiative as the Signature of President Xi Jinping Diplomacy: Easier Said than Done2 In the Shadow of Strategic Rivalry: China, America, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment BankPart IIThe BRI/AIIB and China’s Domestic Politics3 Fragmentation and Mobilization, Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China4 Rhetorical legitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: evidence from Chinese state media 5 Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’? 6 From “Lamb Kebabs” to “Shared Joy”: cultural appropriation, ignorance and the constrained connectivity within the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative 7 Interwoven destinies: the significance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the China Dream, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Xi Jinping Legacy Part IIIInternational Responses to the BRI/AIIB8 Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRT): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East9 Beijing’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy and Belt and Road Initiative in the Sahel: The Case of China’s Growing Presence in Niger10 Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear11 Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies12 China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States: Lessons from the Case of Djibouti.13 India’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB: Struggling for Relative and Absolute Gains