When China’s President Xi Jinping articulated his idea of the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) in Astana in September 2013 and again a month later in Jakarta, 1 what emerged was a vision to parlay large-scale economic dynamism into a foreign policy projecting Chinese influence overseas in the name of development. Inclusive and expansive at […]
Author Archives: Kevjn Lim
Kevjn Lim researches foreign and security policy in the context of the wider Middle East, Central Asia and China. He is also consulting analyst for IHS Markit, senior analyst for the UK-based Open Briefing: The Civil Society Intelligence Agency, and a doctoral candidate in International Relations and Strategy at Tel Aviv University’s Political Science Department.