Asia-Pacific, China Watch Now: China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia

Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party has made it clear that it wants to dominate the continent’s future. China’s new “Health Silk Road,” its provision of personal protective equipment to other Eurasian nations, and its COVID vaccine trials in countries like Pakistan are only the latest additions to a vast economic and political project that is transforming the region with new deep water ports, expanded railway networks, and high-speed digital infrastructure.

As grand as China’s visions may be, however, they will need to contend with the on-the-ground realities in South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

At this virtual event from Perry World House and Penn's Center for the Study of Contemporary China, we heard answers to these and other questions with Daniel Markey, a senior research professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), former South Asia expert for the State Department’s Policy Planning staff, and author of China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia, in conversation with Neysun A. Mahboubi, Research Scholar of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China.

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