While the New Spice Route is seen as a means of competing with ... "We should not see the IMEC as a competitor because the New Silk Road is a global initiative by China that essentially ...

If compared with the Silk Road at a glance, Silk Road connects one point to another in a road trip corridor, while the Spice Route connects commodity centres in the hinterland to ports on the coast ...

While the New Spice Route is seen as a means of competing with the New Silk Roads project initiated by Beijing, the researcher doubts its ability to rival the Chinese economic corridor. "We should not ...