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Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Silk Road Economic Belt component of the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative at Kazakhstan in 2013. OBOR is a development strategy and framework that focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily in Eurasia. It consists of two main components, the land-based "Silk Road Economic Belt" (SREB) and ocean-going "Maritime Silk Road" (MSR). This book studies the equilibrium or balance between overland and maritime trade routes of OBOR.This book has two major sections. The interpretive section examines contemporary media narratives related to the OBOR initiative and how contemporary commentators appropriate narratives about historical events related to the maritime Silk Road to interpret current policy agendas and legitimize diplomatic or economic exchanges. In terms of institutional studies, the chapters related to Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will look at the issues facing the Bank in its quest in forming a new world platform for multilateral development financing.The other section, the empirical case study of the publication highlights the fact that Euro-China High Speed Rail (HSR) and Central Asia-China HSR are not viable at the moment as passenger volume is not sufficient to justify the HSR line. This section examines the overland route of the OBOR and looks at recent Chinese HSR history and conventional sub-high speed rail technology development, and identifies technical

Lim Tai Wei is a Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI) National University of Singapore (NUS). His teaching interests include East Asian History, World History and Japanese popular culture-related courses. His research interests include energy and environmental histories of contemporary Japan and China. He is an area study specialist (on contemporary China and Japan) and a historian by training.

Henry Chan is a PhD candidate at Singapore Management University. His research interest is Economic Growth, Monetary Economics & China Study.

Lim Wen Xin is a Research Assistant at East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. She received her Bachelor's degree with Honors in Economics & Chinese Studies from National University of Singapore. She was a reporter with Sinchew Daily(2011).Her research interests include China's international relations and China's industrial development.

Dr Hui-Yi Katherine Tseng is a Research Associate in East Asian Institute. She obtained her master degree in Cambridge and NYU, and doctorate degree with UW-Wisconsin, Madison. Her research interests expand from international trade dispute resolutions in World Trade Organization to maritime conflict management and disputes resolution in East Asian areas.