Belts and Roads: Is IMEC Going to Happen?
The corridor’s potential as a counterbalance to the BRI remains contingent on the United States’ ability to manage and implement this ambitious project effectively.
In short, while the IMEC concept appears attractive as a vision or idea, much remains to be done to see it through to completion—a result that, with previous announcements concerning the B3W and the PGII schemes, leaves some skepticism as concerns the United States’ ability to make the corridor proposal a working reality.
Dr. Mordechai Chaziza is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Governance and the Multidisciplinary Studies in Social Science division at Ashkelon Academic College (Israel) and a Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Department, University of Haifa, specializing in Chinese foreign and strategic relations.
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