Egypt’s Cognition of the “Belt and Road” Initiative from the Perspective of Cognitive Psychology

Shiwu Liu

Abstract


The “Belt and Road” initiative is a foreign cooperation initiative proposed and actively promoted by China in 2013. Its purpose is to promote the formation of a community of responsibilities, interests, and destiny among countries along the route by building mutually trusting economic and trade relations under the background of a new type of globalization. The Middle East is an important region for the “Belt and Road” initiative, and its attitudes and policies are crucial to the smooth progress of the “Belt and Road” initiative. There are many countries in the Middle East, and their national conditions are also different. It is not realistic to study one by one. Therefore, this article attempts to start from the representative and overall significance of regional powers to study their perceptions of the “Belt and Road” initiative. This article takes Egypt, a major country in the Middle East, as the main research object to study its perception of the “Belt and Road” initiative. This article applies the theoretical methods of cognitive psychology to Egypt for case analysis. First, this article divides the subject of cognition into three levels: political, academic, and non-governmental; In the end, this article proposes countermeasures to deepen the benign cognition based on Egypt’s cognition of the “Belt and Road” initiative.

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Egypt; Belt and Road; Cognition

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36012/ems.v2i3.3366

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