[Book Launch] Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. While the Chinese government has framed the plan as one promoting transnational connectivity, critics and security experts see it as part of a larger strategy to achieve global dominance. Rivers of Iron examines one aspect of President Xi Jinping’s “New Era”: China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). This book illuminates the political strengths and weaknesses of the plan, as well as the capacity of the impacted countries to resist, shape, and even take advantage of China’s wide-reaching actions. Using frameworks from the fields of international relations and comparative politics, the authors of Rivers of Iron seek to explain how domestic politics in these eight Asian nations shaped their varying external responses and behaviors. How does China wield power using infrastructure? Do smaller states have agency? How should we understand the role of infrastructure in broader development? Does industrial policy work? And crucially, how should competing global powers respond?

"Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia" is available for sale on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.sg/Rivers-Iron-Railroads-Chinese-Southeast/dp/0520372999

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Speakers:
-- Prof. David M. Lampton, Senior Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins--SAIS

-- Asst Prof. Selina Ho, Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

-- Assoc Prof. Kuik Cheng-Chwee, Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Asian Studies, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM)

Chairperson:
Prof. Khong Yuen Foong, Vice Dean (Research and Development) and Li Ka Shing Professor in Political Science, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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