The New Silk Road and The Emergence of China as A Great Power

Abstract

The New Silk Road is one of the most important strategic projects of the state of China, which links the countries of Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East together. It is intended to approximate the distance between the sea route and the land road to facilitate trade exchanges in a faster way than before, arriving from China to those countries and providing raw materials and natural resources. Regardless of the large and multiple economic interests, On the other hand, it makes China emerge as a great power in political terms and dominates the countries that enter the project, and then China appears as a global power. China began with the steps of its project and concluded many agreements in that regard, but this project is not without any complications so that China can easily reach its goals, all of America, Russia and India have a danger to China's hegemony in the future, and all of these countries are fighting the project. Chinese according to its economic and political interests, and is trying to prevent China from implementing it.