China Launches New Go West Development Drive to Counter Post-Coronavirus Geopolitical Risks

This is the first story in a three-part series examining the Chinese government’s new Go West plan to develop the central and western regions of the country in response to growing challenges in the international environment.
In July 2013, while at the Port of Qinzhou in southwest China, Premier Li Keqiang summed up the government’s plan for handling an oncoming external economic shock.
With merchandise shipments to the United States and Europe beginning to stagnate at the time, China was looking to use ports like Qinzhou, in the Guangxi autonomous region, to tap emerging markets such as neighbouring Vietnam.Read More…