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104 The aforementioned motives are mainly the reasons why China aims to implement the New Silk Road project. Besides, integration of minority regions which constitute 65% of China’s total surface area with Han Chinese region socially and culturally and Sinicization of Uyghur and Tibet regions are vitally significant (Kodaman, Gonca, 2016: 1257). Beijing aimed to attract many countries in Eurasia, the Turkish world, the Arab world and Africa and curb the USA’s “Shift to Asia” policy thanks to commercial and economic benefits as well as growing investments in infrastructure. China has set strategic goals in order to lessen dependence on transport routes through Southern Eastern Asia for energy and raw material imports from the Arabic world and Africa. One of these strategies was Gwadar port which was purchased from Pakistan and the economic corridor to be created between the port and Kashgar (Sial, 2014). Chinese administration has allocated 46 billion dollars in order to finance the China-Pakistan economic corridor (Zhang 2015: 62). China is said to have allocated a 3 trillion dollar budget in order to finance One Belt One Road project including the overseas spending. 206 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIBB), which has been founded recently and expected to have at least 100 billion dollars of assets, has provided 50 billion dollars for the start. Another 40 billion dollars have been allocated to the Silk Road Fund for the projects to be launched in Turkic republics. 206 China spreads its wealth around the world: http://www.fortuneturkey.com/cin-serveti-dunyaya-yayiyor-42227, access: 20.01.2017 105 General Overview With a two thousand years of recorded history, China is the only existing ancient civilization and it has been evolving within the capitalist system today while developing and expanding thanks to ambitious strategies that can be implemented steadily. Deriving strength and confidence from its ancient history, it has been striving for becoming a global power rather than a regional actor. Utilizing its civilization experience, China is able to interpret global progress and intentions of the West successfully. Analyzing regional and communal cultures in depth, it establishes ties with them and putting its soft power into effect in those local and regional communities and countries, it now offers an alternative to the West. In this process, having gone through tragedies, many local and regional communities and countries tend to prefer China to the West and former imperialist powers even though it is for a short period of time. Making its presence felt in the global capitalist system, China is demonstrating new exploitation models that are similar to those of Western imperialists, which is now expressed more and more by local and Western intellectuals. As “Reform and Opening” process initiated by Deng Xiaoping approaches to its 40 th year, China has become a giant production facility while its people have become a producing and consuming community. It is inevitable for China to produce to be able to consume and to consume to be able to produce. On the other hand, a subsistence imperative, “feeding”, is indispensable for the Chinese as a social and political stability determinant. Therefore employment is a must in China, hence the production. It has become crucial for China to secure the raw material and energy resources required by all sectors of employment, particularly industrial production, which is why China’s investments overseas mostly concentrate on the raw materials and energy resources. Another crucial point in terms of national economy is exports. It is vital to find new markets for Chinese products and converting production surplus into foreign currency. Therefore China needs to have the upper hand in the global market and have control over the markets. CCP administration led by Xi Jinping was obliged to develop and implement more different strategies than their 106 predecessors under these circumstances and necessities. China has become a country that strive for becoming a global actor while taking some risks at the same time. One Belt One Road project stands out among great initiatives and global-scale projects initiated by Xi Jinping since 2013. This project has enabled China to prevent the USA from taking control in Eurasia where the USA had set as a base for its global hegemony. It has also allowed SCO to work more effectively by making the project plausible to the countries in the region. It’s because China had discovered the significance of the region which is now called the Turkic world long time ago and it has been seeking for opportunities to step in. Thanks to the real projects and promising great infrastructure projects it offers, China seems to have been favored by the countries in the region. The fact that China’s One Belt One Road project covers the Turkic world and aims to include almost all of the Islamic geography shows that intellectuals and strategists of Turkic origin need to think more carefully, analyze and create new theses by deriving lessons from history. Particularly likely outcomes of the aforementioned project on the Turkic world need to be evaluated objectively in consideration of interests and subsistence of Turkic communities. Discussing the topic from a commercial standpoint may result in irreversible outcomes. BIBLIOGRAPHY Boulnois, Luce (2005). Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants. Hong Kong: Odyssey Books. Chang-Liao, N. C. (2016). China’s New Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping. Asian Security, 12(2), 82-91. Chen pin/陈频 (2012), Zhang Qian Batıya gidişi ve Doğu-Batı ekonomi, kültürel alış veriş üzerine mülahaza/ 张骞凿空西域及东西方经济文化交流述论 , Ü rümçi Yüklə 1,96 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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