Since its inception with the speech by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2013, the world has been trying to get its collective head around the B&R concept and its likely impact. Since 2013, the media has been replete with contradictory stories, figures and statistics. Now the global supply chain consulting firm SCMO has, it claims, come up with the definitive guide to the logistics and project aspect of the B&R Initiative: Transportation and the Belt and Road Initiative”. The book’s author is Nicolas de Loisy
This book critically examines what China’s BRI is about, clarifies the confusion, and answers many questions. It includes a first-time-ever-published list and statistical tables of all the BRI projects up to December 31st, 2018. A mixed-methods approach was used in the data analysis, and the theory of constraints underpins this research as a theoretical framework. BRI projects are classified by projects’ name, date, status, value, country, region, industry, and transportation mode.
Additional never-published-before tables describe seven transportation modes. These tables are instrumental to our understanding of the BRI and are unpacked and analysed in great detail in one section of this book. This work also demonstrates how instrumental the BRI is to globalization, which in itself is conducive to humanity’s evolution. It describes humanity’s five key chokepoints, and apprehends how China and the BRI are addressing them.
This book is aimed at practitioners, scholars, and experts in: policy making, government administration, infrastructure development, BRI, civil engineering, logistics, transportation, supply chain management, sustainability, warfare, defense, military, intelligence, security, risk mitigation, law, energy, electric grid, pipeline, sea-freight, air-freight, road transportation, rail transportation, digital world, internet, geostrategy, globalization, geopolitics, political science, business, economics, developing countries, social science, tipping points, ecosystem, water, collapse, society cycles, South China Sea, expansionism, and many more.
While a Simplified Chinese translation is being done and should be ready in one or two months’ time, the book is available since today in English language in paperback editions on Amazon and in digital edition on SCMO website (www.scmo.net).
Source:hongkongmaritimehub
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