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Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China's Rise and its Impact on the Developing World

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2019

Julia C. Strauss
Julia C. Strauss*
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SOAS University of London. Email: js11@soas.ac.uk
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On a random Tuesday in May 2019, I found myself in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport, waiting in a fortunately short and quickly moving immigration line prior to a return flight home. Just to the right was an immigration desk with what appeared to be a new sign: a “Belt-and-Road” channel (Yidai yilu tongdao). There was no one behind the BRI desk. I was intrigued by this, but of course did not dare to take a photograph of the sign in a restricted zone. Twenty minutes later I attempted to log on from the airline lounge, and ended with failure. The relevant two-step process now involved a passport scan, the receipt of a registration number that required inputting an (overseas) mobile number and receiving SMS verification with further password. The juxtaposition of the fast-track but empty BRI immigration desk and the clunky double verification procedure to get online at all seemed to encapsulate much China's current position in the world.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 239 , September 2019 , pp. 804 - 812
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2019 

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