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Opinion: China’s Silk Road project – a PLA weapon?

7th February 2018 - 01:00 GMT | by The Geobukseon in Indo-Pacific

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On 7 September 2013, President Xi Jinping called for the construction of a Silk Road Economic Belt during a speech at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. However, this belt has always been more than just a means for China to hitch up its economic pants. 

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Cracking open the hard shell of defence and security policy within the Asia Pacific , The Geobukseon …

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