Strategic Prospects of the Maritime Silk Route (MSR) with respect to Energy Security and Military Purposes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35484/ahss.2025(6-III)21Keywords:
Silk Road, South China Sea, Sea Lines of Communications (SLOCs), Energy Supplies, Grand Strategy, People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)Abstract
The 21st-century Maritime Silk Route refers to a broader geographical region stretching from South China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, South West Asia, Europe, and Africa. This qualitative study aims to explore the strategic prospects of the Maritime Silk Route concerning energy security and military drives. Since most of China's imports of energy supplies transit through the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, Beijing is interested to ensure unobstructed access in these regions. China is establishing a network of permanent naval bases from the Middle East to China. The MSR has emerged as cornerstone of China's foreign policy to capitalize the opportunity of Africa, Europe and Asia's transformation to create strategic space for China. It is effective in pursuing specific goals with respect to security of energy and China’s maritime superiority. Furthermore, it concludes that MSR is a win-win as it concentrates primarily on long-term benefits to all participating countries.
Downloads
Published
Details
-
Abstract Views: 6
PDF Downloads: 3
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Annals of Human and Social Sciences

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & Annals of Human and Social Sciences (AHSS) adheres to Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The authors submitting and publishing in AHSS agree to the copyright policy under creative common license 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license). Under this license, the authors published in AHSS retain the copyright including publishing rights of their scholarly work and agree to let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. All other authors using the content of AHSS are required to cite author(s) and publisher in their work. Therefore, RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & Annals of Human and Social Sciences (AHSS) follow an Open Access Policy for copyright and licensing.