Chinese President Xi Jinping's 'One Belt, One Road' (OBOR) vision, heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route, is intended to strengthen West Asia's economic links with China through ambitious infrastructural projects. Central to this are fast-track rail links, funded by the...

The issue of protectionism has become the main topic of discussion in both the academic and bureaucratic circles of the advanced as well as the developing market economy countries. This paper aims to critically deal with one aspect of the debate, namely, the rising protectionist sentiments in...