Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Retrospect and Evaluation
1. Silk Roads and the Centrality of Old World Eurasia (Gungwu Wang)
2. Progress on the Belt and Road Initiative: A Four-Year Evaluation (Wen Wang, Jinjing Jia, Junyong Xiang, Ying Liu)

Part 2: Finance and Investment
3. Hong Kong as an Equity Financing Centre for the Belt and Road Nations (Kevin C. K. Lam, Heather M.F. Lee, Julia J. Liu and Stacy Z. Wang)
4. A Comparison of Investment Strategies of China and Japan in Infrastructure Projects in ASEAN (Cheung-kwok Law and Derek Yuen)

Part 3: Infrastructure Connectivity
5. China’s Belt and Road Initiative through the Lens of Central Asia (Roman Vakulchuk and Indra Overland)
6. The Belt and Road Initiative and Cambodia’s Infrastructure Connectivity Development: A Cambodian Perspective (Lak Chansok)
7. Economic Cooperation and Infrastructure Linkage between Malaysia and China under the Belt and Road Initiative (Chow-bing Ngeow)

Part 4: E-commerce and Logistics
8. E-commerce Readiness from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to the Belt and Road Initiative (Kam-fai Wong, Chun-hung Cheng, and Waiman Cheung)
9. Maritime Logistics: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia Pacific Region in the Perspective of Belt and Road Initiative (Jai Acharya)

Part 5: Prospect and Challenges
10. Plotting the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative: Connections, Opportunities and Challenges (Peter Frankopan)

Index

About the Author

Fanny M. Cheung is Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Co-Director of Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK, Hong Kong and Co-Convenor of the Global China Research Programme, CUHK, Hong Kong

Ying-yi Hong is Associate Director of Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK, Hong Kong and Co-Convenor of the Global China Research Programme, CUHK, Hong Kong.