This insightful book examines the growing role of China on the global stage by gauging the varying reactions of international spectators to Beijing's hugely significant Belt and Road Initiative. Featuring detailed studies of key geologistical projects, Peter Rimmer charts the swift transformation of China's domestic logistics systems into a global geologistics policy.

Analyses of major international logistical projects, from the Great Stone Industrial Park of Belarus, through the ports of Gwadar, Piraeus, Darwin and Sabetta to the Nicaragua Canal, illustrate the global impact of China's geologistical developments and how key logistics skills are exported through the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. This book distils China's global logistics developments into three basic models - the transcontinental, the reverse and the classic - to reflect upon the effects of the first five years of the Belt and Road Initiative. Laced with detailed empirical studies and an array of illustrative maps, Rimmer assesses the domestic impact of the Initiative thus far and offers an astute appraisal of the imperial connotations of Beijing's global logistical project.

This enlightening book provides crucial insights for academics and researchers in political science, transport studies and economics investigating China's recent policy initiatives, particularly those who examine the impact of geologistics. Policymakers and commentators will also benefit from the author's unique empirical insight into global logistics development.

About the Author
Peter J. Rimmer AM, Emeritus Professor, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Reviews
'Since Rimmer assesses both the BRI's evolution as well as political and logistic responses in the targeted regions, the book provides an essential read for understanding how extensive, transnational transport routes under the initiative reconstitute the geographic arena for China's policymakers.' -- Susann Handke, Independent scholar
'This book analyses the impact of China's global logistics developments since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative. Laced with detailed empirical studies and a great array of illustrative maps, Professor Rimmer has brilliantly assessed the domestic impact of the BRI thus far and offered a convincing appraisal of Beijing's global logistical projects. It has a rich bibliography over and above the nice cartography of maps. Not only its trans-continent plateau, but he has also looked into the specifics of the Initiative through trade, transportation and logistics. This book is certainly a great resource for those who are evaluating the success or failures of the BRI and way ahead.' -- Prabir De, Journal of Asian Economic Integration
'Peter Rimmer's China's Global Vision and Actions is a tour de force examination of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Using geologistics as the analytic compass, Rimmer takes the reader farther and wider than any previous book in understanding the BRI's true global scope, significance and emerging impact.' -- Xiangming Chen, Trinity College, US and Fudan University, China
'This is a remarkable and innovative book. Drawing on insights from geologistics, geopolitics and geoculture, Peter J. Rimmer provides a much-needed analytical intelligence of China's perspective of global transport geography through a detailed empirical and conceptual exploration of landbridges and maritime corridors of the Belt and Road Initiative.' -- Claude Comtois, University of Montreal, Canada



Book Information
ISBN 9781788978965
Author Peter J. Rimmer
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd