The belt and road initiative in Southwest China: responses from Yunnan province
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...At the same time, economic interests and structural changes at the provincial level are crucial factors shaping China’s external economic relations (Summers, 2019)....
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...The BRI “China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor” with its flagship China-Laos Railway furthermore rests on a longer history of Yunnan’s provincial authorities’ constant efforts to develop into as a transregional “bridgehead” (Li 2014; Su 2013; Summers 2013, 2019)....
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...[251], Gong & Ding [249], Liu & Dunford [64], Qin & Chong [13], Summers [248], Xu et al....
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...Summers [248] explored the principal responses to the BRI on the provincial level in Yunnan, situated in southwestern China and bordering Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam....
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...This is consistent with interpretations of the BRI as a framework of “interpretative leniency”, as an “omnibus” policy, and as an extremely loose, indeterminate scheme within which provincial actors can compete for external influences (Jones & Zeng, 2019; Li, 2019; Summers, 2019)....
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...Yet, through transborder energy projects with neighboring states, multiple Chinese actors develop stronger trading relationships, deeper integration and consequently advance ‘brand China’ through energy diplomacy (Freeman 2017; Tubilewicz 2016)....
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