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Belt and Road Initiative in Northern Myanmar: The Local World of China's Global Investments
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Abstract Macro-level discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) firmly establish China as the sole agent in driving infrastructure development. This article contends that often obscured from view by the discourses on China's dominance are the host country authorities' exercising of agency in infrastruc... mehr
Macro-level discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) firmly establish China as the sole agent in driving infrastructure development. This article contends that often obscured from view by the discourses on China's dominance are the host country authorities' exercising of agency in infrastructure development under their own jurisdiction. The paper focuses on the actions of the local host country authorities in developing an infrastructure megaproject as a part of the BRI in northern Myanmar's Kachin State. Currently under suspension, the Myitkyina Economic Development Zone (MEDZ, also known as Namjin Industrial Zone) would make an ambitious spatial intervention with wider implications and risks. The paper scrutinizes the 'strategies' by the local authorities in 2019-2020 in their attempts to move the project forward covertly. These include exploiting the project's designation as an economic developing zone to conceal its scale and the inclusion of a major urban development, lack of transparency, and alleged abuse of power.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Myanmar; China; Infrastruktur; grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit; Investition; Stadtentwicklung; Macht; Missbrauch
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Wirtschaftspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Belt and Road Initiative; Chinese Investments; Cross-Border Economic Zone; Kachin
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 251-268
Zeitschriftentitel
ASEAS - Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 16 (2023) 2
Heftthema
Negotiating Chinese Infrastructures of Modern Mobilities: Insights from Southeast Asia
ISSN
2791-531X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0