Xiaoli Guo is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS) in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU). She has been a visiting scholar at Department of International Relations and East Asian Studies at Middle East Technical University (METU), Department of Chinese Translation Studies in Faculty of Arts at Gazi University in 2017; The Middle East Studies Institute at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) in 2018. Her recent publications include: “Is Turkey Acting Fairly? –Turkey’s Choice in T-LORAMIDs,” Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Issue 2, 2017 [Trans. into Arabic by Mahjoub Abbas et al. and published in Turkey: Issues and Insights تركيا: قضايا ورؤ) 2018.)]; “A Glimpse of China-Turkey Relations at the 11th G20 Summit,” Uluslararası Politika Akademisi – (UPA), October 23, 2016; and with Murat Yurtbilir, “Erdoğan’in Çin Seferi Ve Çin Basinindaki Yansimalari, Chinese Media’s Perception of Erdogan’s Visit to China,” Uluslararası Politika Akademisi– (UPA), August 10, 2015.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Turkey’s Middle Corridor: “Win-Win Cooperation”?
The launching of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Middle Corridor have provided wider scope and greater potential for China, now the world’s second-largest economy and Turkey, a G20 member, to develop more extensive bilateral trade and investment ties and further advance their respective regional and global aspirations. This article examines the headway that China and Turkey have made and the roadblocks that they have encountered in enhancing their economic relations.
