This chapter reviews the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the greater Eurasian context by integrating economic, political and cultural aspects. This includes in particular strategic issues and core motives of China's leadership as well as aspects of critique from a European view. Europe's...

Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Xi Jinping's China -- Chapter 2 The cry for Chinese democratization -- Chapter 3 The 2012-13 generational power transfer and it's perspectives -- Chapter 4 The Ethnonationalism Problem -- Chapter 5 China's new foreign policy and the West -- Chapter 6 China and...