Abstract
ABSTRACTWith the increasing influence of China, the future of its non-interference policy is being increasingly debated both in China and abroad. This contribution investigates the question of intervention with Chinese characteristics by focusing on the ‘geo’ in the geo-economics of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is spatially reterritorialising the social geography of (Afro-)Eurasia. This reconfiguration challenges intervention research. By analysing the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as an illustration, this article argues that the geo-economic social geography of BRI is supplanting the current geopolitical social geography (dominated by the USA). Through geo-economic interventions, Chinese infrastructure projects create new geo-economic connectivity through corridors in various territories, which have been rendered simply geo-politicised (Pakistan or Iran) or insignificant (Africa) in the global economy. The article concludes by discussing some implications of geo-economic interventions for intervention research.
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