Abstract

This article represents initial and ongoing efforts to map and plot the major legal and policy dimensions and dynamics of China's One Belt One Road Initiative ("OBOR"). OBOR is now arguably the most important component of China's economic diplomacy and its international trade and investment relations. Tracing the historic Silk Road trading routes, the Belt and Road Initiative has sweeping geopolitical implications. The first section of this article considers the rapidly changing nature of interactions between the United States, the European powers, Russia, and China from a ...