Understanding China’s New Diplomacy

Gerald Chan, Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand

'This is an excellent much needed book.'--Kingsley E. Haynes, George Mason University, US'Professor Gerald Chan is a perceptive and thorough scholar, with a highly inventive mind. In this book he brilliantly analyzes China's high-speed railway system and the Belt and Road Initiative, likely to transform all kinds of interactions across the great Eurasian Continent in coming decades. Professor Chan's sober and insightful analysis will also serve as a basis for future research.'--Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia'This is a timely but very original contribution to the field of international political economy and development studies and the study of China's relations with the world. Professor Chan takes the case of the rapid development and internationalization of China's high-speed rail industry to show how Chinese industrial development is organized in the context of the evolving world political economic structure. Theoretically sharp, empirically rich, and policy implications far-reaching.'--Xiaoming Huang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The New Silk Road 3. China’s high-speed rail diplomacy 4. Explaining China’s high-speed rail ‘miracle’5. Financing infrastructure projects 6. Assessing Asian responses to ‘one belt, one road’ 7. Theorising ‘one belt, one road’ 8. Conclusion Index