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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2017.15.9.189

Analysis of China's trade dependency on the countries participating in the Belt and Road initiative  

Song, Min-Geun (Graduate School of Logistics, Incheon National University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.15, no.9, 2017 , pp. 189-200 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of China's trade relationships with and dependency on the countries participating in the Belt and Road initiative and to present some implications. This study collected annual total imports, exports, and GDP data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 198 countries and the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) on 221 countries from 1995 to 2015. China's imports and exports have expanded considerably from the mid-1990s to the present, and China's dependence on imports and exports with the US and Japan has declined, while its dependence on the Middle East, South Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia has increased. China has a very high level of dependence on imports from and exports to the countries participating in the Belt and Road initiative, and as the Belt and Road project progresses, the mutual trade dependency between China and the other participating countries is expected to strengthen and expand.
Keywords
Trade dependency; China; Asia; One Belt One Road; The Belt and Road; AIIB;
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