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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The Maritime Silk Road (MSR) idea is part of this wider attemptby China to construct multiple lines of communication to its economicheartland in eastern China since the early 2000s. The underlying aim ofsuch a geostrategy is to also develop inner Chinese provinces and shapeChina's regional periphery by exercising economic, political and cultural Influence.
In May 2014, Xinhua unveiled maps showing China's ambitious Landand Maritime Silk Roads.3 The MSR envisions an 'economic cooperationarea' stretching from the Western Pacific to the Baltic Sea as a sort ofmaritime highway buttressed by Chinese-supported infrastructure andport facilities in states straddling maritime routes along which China'strade and natural resources flow.
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