Global Development and International Order Transition

Abstract

The aim of this study is to discuss China's role in the development process in the current world order. This chapter elucidates how China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) connects countries from all over the world in the context of economic and trade prosperity. Thus, the revival of the China's old silk road by President Xi Jinping has initiated a global development programme on all the continents. Since 2013, China has been delivering through the successful launch of the BRI projects and dominate on their counterpart in the new world order. Now, the theory of globalisation is being pioneered by Chinese diplomacy in world politics. The concept of soft and hard power is applied to explain the main research problems of this study. The chapter relies on qualitative analysis and an empirical approach to discussion to investigate the goal of this research.