Spatiotemporal characteristics of terrorist activities in 56 countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt and their impact on China's export trade: An analysis of inhibition and transfer

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This paper quantitatively analyzes how terrorist activities in 56 importing countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt from 2002 to 2021 relate to China’s export trade, while also characterizing the spatial and temporal patterns of terrorism across those countries. It reports that terrorism varies widely in severity, with more fatalities concentrated in West Asia and South Asia and fewer fatalities mainly in Central/Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Central Asia, and it finds a westward shift in the “center of gravity” plus spatial interdependence and regional clustering. The study further finds that terrorist activities in importing nations significantly inhibit China’s exports even after sample adjustments and instrumental variable introduction, with stronger inhibition in Islamic and middle- to high-income countries and when incidents target private individuals and their property; it also reports that export trade pivots toward countries with closer institutional proximity rather than physical or cultural proximity. This paper is centrally about none of these conditions; it does not explicitly discuss endometriosis or adenomyosis and was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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Abstract This paper quantitatively analyzes the influence of terrorist activities in importing nations on China's export trade, utilizing export trade data between China and 56 countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt from 2002 to 2021, while also depicting the spatial and temporal evolution of terrorist activities in these nations. The analysis reveals that the terrorist activities in importing nations exhibit considerable diversity and severity, with countries experiencing more fatalities predominantly situated in West Asia and South Asia, whilst those with fewer fatalities are primarily found in Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Central Asia. The distribution of terrorist activities along the route exhibits a westward trend in its center of gravity, revealing spatial interdependence and differentiation. High-high agglomeration areas are concentrated in West Asia, while the low-low agglomeration areas are found in Central and Eastern Europe. The finding that terrorist activities in importing nations impede China's export trade remains significant even after sample adjustments and the introduction of instrumental variables. This inhibition predominantly occurs in Islamic countries and middle- to high-income nations, with a more pronounced effect on China's export trade when terrorist activities target private individuals and their property. Following the terrorist activities in the importing nations, China's export trade will pivot towardscountries with a closer institutional proximity to the sites of the incidents, rather than those with closer physical or cultural proximity. This paper contends that the adverse effects of terrorist activities on China's export trade should be alleviated through effective prediction and assessment of such activities in their initial stages, the objective identification of their varied impacts across different regions, and the enhancement of crisis management capabilities.
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The analysis reveals that the terrorist activities in importing nations exhibit considerable diversity and severity, with countries experiencing more fatalities predominantly situated in West Asia and South Asia, whilst those with fewer fatalities are primarily found in Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Central Asia. The distribution of terrorist activities along the route exhibits a westward trend in its center of gravity, revealing spatial interdependence and differentiation. High-high agglomeration areas are concentrated in West Asia, while the low-low agglomeration areas are found in Central and Eastern Europe. The finding that terrorist activities in importing nations impede China's export trade remains significant even after sample adjustments and the introduction of instrumental variables. This inhibition predominantly occurs in Islamic countries and middle- to high-income nations, with a more pronounced effect on China's export trade when terrorist activities target private individuals and their property. Following the terrorist activities in the importing nations, China's export trade will pivot towardscountries with a closer institutional proximity to the sites of the incidents, rather than those with closer physical or cultural proximity. This paper contends that the adverse effects of terrorist activities on China's export trade should be alleviated through effective prediction and assessment of such activities in their initial stages, the objective identification of their varied impacts across different regions, and the enhancement of crisis management capabilities. 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