HKTDC (2017) [47] | Analysis of six economic corridors in the OBOR. Key areas of co-operation are policy, finance and others. | Hong Kong Trade Development Council |
Du (2016) [1] | Compare the OBOR with the TPP, claiming the former to be the Chinese version of globalization. | The Chinese Journal of Global Governance |
Tian, 2016 [48] | OBOR is China’s grand strategy encountering the US’s TPP promotion or rebalancing in Asia. | Voices |
Hsueh, 2016 [49] | The OBOR would provide a great opportunity for the internationalization of the renminbi, since more trade and investment can be settled with renminbi. | Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies |
Tian, Yu, & Zhang, 2016 [50] | Outward FDI of China has become economically important to touch international investment with a 50% annual growth rate. | China Economic Journal |
Hali, Shukui, & Iqbal, 2015 [51] | The OBOR has been perceived by Chinese planners and their well-wishers as a game changer for the entire region. | Strategic Studies |
Yang et al., 2016 [54] | The rail way infrastructure can connect China to Europe as an important part of the OBOR initiative. | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review |
Wolff, 2016 [8] | The Belt and Road initiative has common approaches to infrastructure development and regional cooperation by institutions, particularly the development banks. | German Development Institute |
Xu, 2016 [52] | China impetuses to reach well-adjusted regional development between coastal and inland regions, and places a priority on investment by OBOR Initiative. | China Economic Review |
Xue, 2016 [53] | China’s foreign policy agenda will change significantly from “keeping a low profile” to “proactively and enterprisingly striving for achievements” as it implements the One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy. | Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies |
Yang et al., 2016 [54] | Some major challenges of OBOR are complex natural features, mismatched resources, shared ecological issues, and diverse socioeconomic conditions. | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability |
Haggai, 2016 [55] | OBOR initiative has huge potential in promoting economic development in the partner nations. | World Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities |
Yuqing, 2016 [56] | China plans to achieve diplomatic, economic and political objectives through the AIIB through facilitating OBOR strategy and steering regional cooperation and integration. | Chinese Political Science Review |
Ferdinand, 2016 [57] | China’s foreign policy has moved from risk-averse caution to optimistic “dreaming” about a better world in which China will have recovered its rightful place. | International Affairs |
Grieger, 2016 [58] | The initiative is unprecedented in terms of China’s financial engagement and the innovative network-based project design which is intended to contribute to a more inclusive global governance. | EUROPEAN PARLEMENT Briefing |
Huang, 2016 [18] | OBOR initiative aims to boost business and spread affluence across 60-plus countries with more than 4 billion people by construction of essential infrastructure and enhancing financial and trade links. | China Economic Review |
EIU, 2015 [59] | OBOR not only represents a renewed, stronger and better coordinated push to expand China’s influence overseas, but it is also coupled with a domestic investment drive. | The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited |
Swaine, 2015 [60] | The One Belt, One Road initiative offers considerable potential in several economic, political, cultural, and strategic realms; it also presents many uncertainties and potential concerns. | China Leadership Monitor |
Zimmerman, 2015 [61] | OBOR has been designed to reshape the economic and political order in Central Asia and the Asian Pacific region by encouraging a network of trade routes, political cooperation, and cultural exchange. | Center on International Cooperation |
Andrea, 2014 [4] | China’s OBOR initiative is based upon projects, not rules, supporting that China has made connectivity and infrastructure as the top priorities. | Asian Review of World Histories |