China's "One Belt, One Road" Global Strategy:
Implications, Prospects and Constraints
Aalborg University, January 19 - 20, 2017
Venue: Create Building, room 4.105, Aalborg University, City Campus, Rendsburgsgade 14, 9000 Aalborg
Day 1 - january 19
Session 1
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration, Canteen area outside room 4.105 |
9:30 - 10:15, ROOM: 4.105chaired by Li xing |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Opening Remark by Marianne Rostgaard, Head of Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Topical note by Hu Yi, Director of the Political Section, The Chinese Embassy to Denmark |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Topical note by Søren Bindesbøll, Senior Advisor / Policy Expert, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark |
Keynote presentation 10:15 - 11:45, room 4.105Chaired by Thorsten Budde Haensel |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Sarah Kirchberger: China’s Search for a New International Role and What It Means for Europe (30 min presentation, 15 min discussion) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Collective photo |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Li Xing: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding the Multi-facets of China’s “One Belt One Road” Strategy |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
Day 1 - January 19
Session 2A
13:00 - 16:00, room 4.105Chaired by Li Xing(25 min presentation, 15 min discussion) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Feng Yuan: One Belt, One Road Strategy and China’s multilayer Multilateralism |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Peng Bo: Belt and Road Strategy and China’s Regional Leadership in Asia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Coffee break |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Carsten Boyer Thøgersen: The “One Belt – One Road” Initiative and the Foreign Policy Concept of “义” and “利”. Seen in the Context of China’s World Analysis since 1946. |
| 15:20 - 16:00 |
Paulo Duarte: China’s momentum: the One Belt One Road triple’s securitization |
Day 1 January 19
Session 2B
13:00 - 16:00, ROOM 5.125Chaired by ane bislev(25 min presentation, 15 min discussion) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 |
Laurids Lauridsen: Can two tigers occupy the same mountain? Regional competition and railway diplomacy in Thailand. |
| 13:40 - 14:20 |
Jesper Zeuthen: Strategies and Minerals: why do Chinese mining enterprises invest overseas? |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Coffee break |
| 14:40 - 15:20 | Ritika Passi: OBOR: Where the economics stop and the geopolitics begin |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Wu Fuzuo: Geopolitical Competition and Cooperation: Sino-Indian Relations in the Context of “One Belt, One Road” |
| 18:00 - 20:00 |
Conference dinner at Restaurant Huameng Østerågade 3, 9000 Aalborg (for paper presenters and invited guests only) |
Day 2 - January 20
Session 3A
9:00 - 12:40, room 4.105Chaired by Peng Bo(25 min presentation, 15 min discussion) |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Nie Yuxi: China’s Policies on Social Media Messaging - Reviewing Xinhua News Agency’s posts on One Belt One Road initiative |
| 9:40 - 10:20 |
Agniya Chistyakova: The Chinese language as a tool of “soft power” in the project of the Economic belt of the Silk Road |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Huang Rihan: On China's Smart Power: How to tell the Chinese Story |
| 11:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Zheng Xiaowen: Conceptualizing B&R Initiative as rising China’s public Good --Taking Interdependent Hegemony as an Analytical Tool |
| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Zhang Jie: Framing the five breakthrough points of implementing the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
Day 2 - January 20
session 3B
9:00 - 12:40, room: 3.329Chaired by Jesper Zeuthen(25 min presentation, 15 min discussion) |
| 9:00 - 9:40 |
Murad Ali: China’s One Belt, One Road initiative: Prospects and challenges for Pakistan |
| 9:40 - 10:20 |
Wolfgang Zank: The Eurasian Economic Union: Stepping Stone or Road-Block for the “New Silk Road |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Xu Yao: China's One Belt One Road Initiative and the Governance of International Investment |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Ewa Rzanna: The KMT economy – Taiwan as a model for the PRC’s OBOR strategy. |
| 12:00 - 12:40 |
Neil Renwick: US-China Relations 'Trumped'? OBOR and the Maritime Silk Road in a New Age of American Nationalism |
| 12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch |
Day 2 - January 20
Session 4
13:40 - 14:40, room 3.107Chaired by Li Xing |
| 13:40 - 14:40 | Collective discussion on publication |
