The Costliest Pearl : China's Struggle for India's Ocean
鑑於石油，非洲礦產集裝箱運輸，印度洋對中國的戰略重要性不容小覷。自從鄭在十五世紀通過這些水域航行他們的艦隊 - 探索和繪製它們以擴展天體帝國的貿易以來，中國一直在這裡。
600年後，北京重新進入印度洋是其“一帶一路”大型項目的一部分，其中投資數万億美元用於海洋邊緣以及Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius等基礎設施項目，包括軍事基地在Djibouti。這引發了一場新的危險對抗。針對中國的遠程聯盟印度、美國、法國、澳大利亞以及可預見的日本，在亞太地區的主要競爭對手。
中國長期處於印度洋，大國政治進入這個敏感的海洋地區將會塑造其未來數十年。 Bertil Lintner發掘了這個引人注目的故事，介紹了主要參與者，研究了經濟和海軍的權力平衡，並審查激烈的競爭，以鼓勵小島嶼國家與新德里或北京保持一致。
The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them in a bid to extend the Celestial Empire's trading and tributary system -- has China been present here.
Beijing's re-entry into the Indian Ocean after 600 years is part of its Belt and Road megaproject, in which it is investing trillions of dollars in infrastructure projects around the Ocean rim and in Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius, including a military base in Djibouti. This has touched off a new and dangerous confrontation. Ranged against China is an informal alliance of India, the US, France, Australia, and, predictably, Japan, China's arch rival in the Asia-Pacific.
China is in the Indian Ocean for the long haul and the entry of big-power politics into this sensitive maritime region will shape its future for decades. Bertil Lintner unearths this dramatic story, profiles the key players, examines the economic and naval balance of power and scrutinizes the intense competition to encourage small island nations to align with either New Delhi or Beijing.
Bertil Lintner (Editor)
Publisher:Hurst
ISBN: 978-1849049962
原價 US 25 台幣 NT$875
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