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China has been going around the world signing development deals with countries in an initiative it calls Belt and Road, formerly One Belt One Road. It's a massive infrastructure project that was started in 2013 and goes from East Asia to Europe. The goal of the program seems benign—invest in other countries' infrastructure using Chinese engineering and manufacturing. But like most things the Chinese Communist Party touches, it has come with corruption, subversion, and deceit. Are we seeing the expansion of Chinese communist colonialism? Joining us in this episode of China Unscripted is Dr. Rachel Winston, a professor and author of several books about China, including “Belts and Roads Under Beijing's Thumb.”

Following the official call from the Taliban welcoming Chinese investment, the SCMP’s Zhou Xin analyses China's past relationship with Afghanistan and its strategic and historic importance to Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative. In the wake of US investor uproar over the Didi IPO, business reporter Georgina Lee unpacks the new rules for Chinese companies listing on US stock markets, and how Hong Kong stands to benefit.

Washington Report Ep 2: Deciphering G7's challenge to China's Belt and Road initiative 10:09 mins Synopsis: Every Monday, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh analyses the latest developments in the country he is based in, with Money FM 89.3's Elliott Danker. They chat about the following: G7's challenge to China's multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative (0:47) Making sense of G7 Summit climate change plans (2:35) Explicit language covering China this time round, in G-7 final communique (5:00) Introduction of five bills aimed at limiting the power held by Big Tech companies in the US (6:20) Produced by: The Breakfast Huddle, Money FM 89.3, Ernest Luis Edited by: Dan Koh Subscribe to our Asian Insider Podcast channel to follow our various shows each week and rate us on your favourite audio apps: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/Ju4h  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://www.straitstimes.com/authors/nirmal-ghosh Asian Insider newsletter: https://www.straitstimes.com/tags/asian-insider Discover Asian Insider Videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnK3VE4BKduMSOntUoS6ALNp21jMmgfBX --- Discover more ST podcast series: Green Pulse Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaf Health Check Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaN ST Sports Talk Podcast: https://str.sg/JWRE Life Weekend Picks Podcast: https://str.sg/JWa2 #PopVultures Podcast: https://str.sg/JWad Bookmark This! Podcast: https://str.sg/JWas Lunch With Sumiko Podcast: https://str.sg/J6hQ Discover BT Podcasts:  http://bt.sg/podcasts Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

G7 leaders have concluded their summit in Cornwall. They pledged over a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses for poorer countries, promised to cut their own carbon emissions and agreed to fund a democratic alternative to China's Belt and Road initiative. It was President Joe Biden's first overseas trip and a chance to persuade old allies America is back as a reliable partner. Simon McGregor-Wood reports. For more, we were joined by Huw Edwards in Loughborough in the UK. He's a senior lecturer in economics at Loughborough University. #G7 #Leaders #Cornwall

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In the run-up to last Friday's U.S.-Japan summit at the White House, there had been a lot of talk that President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga would announce a new initiative to challenge China's Belt and Road Initiative.In the end, it turned out that the two leaders did not address infrastructure development in their summit's joint statement but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of enthusiasm in both Washington and Tokyo to come up with a way to stem China's lead in building infrastructure throughout the Global South.Elizabeth Losos, a senior fellow at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions thinks that reviving the failed Blue Dot Network from 2019 might be the answer. She joins Eric & Cobus from Chapel Hill, North Carolina to talk about why it's critical to simultaneously tackle the climate crisis and confront the Chinese on infrastructure.JOIN THE DISCUSSION:Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProjectTwitter: @eolander | @stadenesque SUBSCRIBE TO THE CAP'S DAILY EMAIL NEWSLETTERYour subscription supports independent journalism. Subscribers get the following:1. A daily email newsletter of the top China-Africa news.2. Access to the China-Africa Experts Network3. Unlimited access to the CAP's exclusive analysis content on chinaafricaproject.comTry it free for 30-days and see if you like it. Subscriptions start at just $7 a month for students and teachers and $15 a month for everyone else. Subscribe here: www.chinaafricaproject.com/subscribe

Speakers: Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Björn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge Centre on China , Swedish Institute of International Affairs Luke Patey, Senior Researcher, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Danish Institute for International Studies Moderators: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies James Gethyn Evans, Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University Nordic and Baltic countries have struggled to develop well-calibrated approaches to cooperation with China and its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Economic incentives or disincentives, human rights, the EU dynamics, security arrangements, and global governance consideration have pulled the agendas of Northern European states in different directions. This panel will discuss the current state of affairs and the prospect of a coordinated Nordic-Baltic policy with regard to the BRI. Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

In this episode, I talked with Yuan Jiang, an Australia-based China and Russia analyst, actively appeared in many international news platform like South China Morning Post (SCMP), The Diplomat, Global Times, China Daily, The National Interests etc. Recently, he wrote an interesting article at the Diplomat titled “The Continuing Mystery of the Belt and Road”. Therefore, I asked him why does he think that BRI is a mysterious China's policy narratives? How does he see the outlook of BRI at the post-COVID-19 time when countries in the region are going to pursue economic recovery? What does he mean by saying that BRI is a constantly changing group of policy settings? And also to what extent the changing leadership in the United States will affect the future BRI projects and implementation?

Listen now to WACA's KNOW NOW conference call on Wednesday, December 2, at 2:00-2:30 PM ET, featuring Firoz Peera, board member and past Chair of the World Affairs Council of Charlotte.  The Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s ambitious multi-decade project to create a modern day version of the ancient Silk Road, a powerful route that provided the foundation for the very first wave of globalization across a vast Eurasian landscape. Mr. Peera will discuss the nature & scope of the BRI and its geo-strategic implications in this new age of great power rivalry. Peera is a board member and past Chair of the World Affairs Council of Charlotte. With a strong interest in history and geopolitics, he has been an avid watcher of China’s ascendency to superpower status.

Since its inception in 2013, Chinese government officials have insisted that the Belt and Road is solely an economic initiative and does not have any military motivations. But the BRI's civil-military distinction is no longer as clear cut as it used to be. President Xi Jinping himself called for a strong BRI security system to protect China's overseas interests, people and property.One little-known aspect of the BRI is that much of the overseas construction, particularly ports, must conform to standards that conform to the People's Liberation Army's requirements. So, while today there's little evidence that China is leveraging the BRI for security or military purposes, there are concerns that it is positioning to be able to do so in the future should the need arise.Daniel Russel, vice president for international security and diplomacy at the New York-based Asia Society Policy Institute, examined the security dimensions of the BRI in a recent paper. Daniel joins Eric & Cobus to discuss what he calls the Belt and Road's "civil-military fusion" in maritime, terrestrial and space environments.JOIN THE DISCUSSION:Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProjectTwitter: @eolander | @stadenesque | @dannyrrusselWatch a discussion with the authors of ASPI's report Weaponizing the Belt and Road Initiative: https://youtu.be/PX5PnnnYrFw SUBSCRIBE TO THE CAP'S DAILY EMAIL NEWSLETTER FOR JUST $3 FOR 3 MONTHS.Your subscription supports independent journalism. Subscribers get the following:1. A daily email newsletter of the top China-Africa news.2. Access to the China-Africa Experts Network3. Unlimited access to the CAP's exclusive analysis content on chinaafricaproject.comTry it out for just $3 for 3 months: www.chinaafricaproject.com/subscribe

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a central theme of China's foreign policy, particularly in developing regions like Africa where it's linked to billions of dollars of infrastructure development. But when you ask Chinese officials "what exactly is the BRI?" no one really seems to have a definitive answer.It's a development agenda, a foreign policy initiative, a security strategy... and much more all mixed together.While it may seem counterintuitive, but that ambiguity/confusion is actually intentional, according to Jonathan Hillman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International and author of the new book "The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century." Jonathan joins Eric & Cobus to discuss his journey along the BRI and why it embodies China's push for "incremental imperialism."JOIN THE DISCUSSION:Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProjectTwitter: @eolander | @stadenesque | @hillmanjePurchase The Emperor's New Road: China and the Project of the Century on Amazon.com.SUBSCRIBE TO THE CAP'S DAILY EMAIL NEWSLETTER FOR JUST $3 FOR 3 MONTHS.Your subscription supports independent journalism. Subscribers get the following:1. A daily email newsletter of the top China-Africa news.2. Access to the China-Africa Experts Network3. Unlimited access to the CAP's exclusive analysis content on chinaafricaproject.comTry it out for just $3 for 3 months: www.chinaafricaproject.com/subscribe

Stricken by the COVID-19 shutdown, China is now among the fastest to recover. The burning issue is: What happens to all of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in ASEAN countries, many of which have closed their borders to contain the pandemic? From new ports and hydropower projects to railroads criss- crossing Asia, China's massive infrastructure projects under the BRI have left awe and controversy in their wake. Find out what's next for the BRI at our Captains Speak session with Mukhtar Hussain, Head of Belt and Road Initiative for Asia Pacific at HSBC, and Chairman of HSBC Singapore PLC.

In this episode of Building the Future, Joshua Eisenman, author of Red China’s Green Revolution and Assistant Professor at the Keogh School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame, sits down with Dan Runde to talk about the specifics of China’s development narrative, and how the country leverages this narrative to advance its strategic objectives in the rest of the world. The two also discuss where the U.S. fits in within this dynamic, and how it should frame its own role in the developing world going forward, especially in Africa.

Discussants: Chaoting Cheng, Founder of DCF Institute Ganyi Zhang, PhD of Political Science 讨论人： 成朝庭，DCF研究所创始人 张干一，柏林自由大学政治学博士

This week we are joined by Yun Sun of the Stimson center in a discussion about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Yun Sun is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the East Asia Program and Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center. Her expertise is in Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations and China’s relations with neighboring countries and authoritarian regimes.

This week on Spotlight, host Naomi Shi sits down with MIR Writer of the Week, Emma-Jane Ni, to discuss her article “Debt, Masks, and Tech: Why COVID-19 Won't Mean the End for China's Belt and Road Initiative”, in which she explores how China has continued to increase its influence abroad despite the setbacks posed by COVID 19.

Ankur Shah joins host Hamsini Hariharan to discuss the border between China and Russia. For comments or questions, reach out to the host For questions or comments, reach out to the host on twitter @HamsiniH (https://twitter.com/HamsiniH ) or on Instagram @statesofanarchy ( https://instagram.com/statesofanarchy )You can follow Ankur on Twitter and Instagram: @ANKURsamirshahTwitter: (https://twitter.com/ANKURsamirshah)Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/ankursamirshah/)Read More:1. Near China’s border with Russia, the Orthodox Church regains a toehold – Ankur Shah (https://econ.st/2ZE51De)Life in limbo on the Sino-Russian border – Ankur Shah (https://bit.ly/3iy6SCc)COVID-19: Trouble on the China-Russia Border – Ankur Shah (https://bit.ly/31NyywV)Exploring the remote realities of China's Belt and Road – (https://s.nikkei.com/2Z3NXrq)105 Night Trailer (https://bit.ly/3iw9ZdU)Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between - Ed Pukford (https://amzn.to/3gAr2K9)Reconnecting Asia- CSIS (https://bit.ly/3f32ER3)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

ASEAN is in the heart of China's Belt and Road Initiative and America's Indo-Pacific Strategy. But, what is ASEAN's position on BRI and Indo-Pacific, really? In this episode, we are trying to shed a light the overlapping schemes that exist between ASEAN, BRI, and Indo-Pacific.

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As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage economies worldwide, we take the time to speak with Dr. Bruce Elmslie of UNH about the global economy during this time. Also, we speak with Dr. Sarwar Kashmeri about China's Belt and Road Initiative, as well as how China's relations with the world will be affected by the current crisis. Join us for these interesting discussions and hear more about how this crisis is shaping our world today and into the future.

Interview with Lord Stephen Green of Hurstpierpoint about his book "The Human Odyssey: East, West and the Search for Universal Values". In this interview we discuss; - What influenced him to write this book - China's Belt & Road Initiative - The impact of COVID-19 and artificial intelligence - and much more Please Enjoy!

Kyle Bass (@Jkylebass) is the Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management, and arguably the most outspoken China hawk on Wall Street. I had Bass on the podcast to discuss his views on the U.S.-China economic competition, what a U.S. grand strategy with respect to China might look like, and much more. What We Discussed Why Bass believes China is a paper tiger China's ignored Achilles' heel The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) effort to set up a competing global reserve currency How the CCP has ensured a predominant pro-Beijing narrative in the U.S., through developing relationships with our political class, titans of  financial services and other powerful sectors of the economy, and Hollywood--to our great detriment How America can use capital market reforms to end the CCP's unfair trade practices What Bass would do if he was advising the Trump administration on trade vis-à-vis China Whether America can decouple from China, and what the consequences would be The economic viability of China's Belt and Road Initiative The stakes of the competition with Huawei in 5G telecommunications technology Making China pay for its culpability in the coronavirus crisis China's biggest Achilles heel Bass's three major recommendations for a U.S. grand strategy with respect to China Thanks for Listening! Check out other episodes, show notes and transcripts at benweingarten.com/bigideas. Subscribe, rate and review: iTunes | Stitcher | Google | YouTube Follow Ben: Web | Newsletter | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn Advertising & Sponsorship Inquiries: E-mail us. ___________ Backed Vibes (clean) Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

More than seven years after the Chinese government's commencement of the belt and road initiative, the pseudointellectuals reflect on the initiative's progress while considering the main benefactors and questioning the program's success. Who was the initiative meant to help? Who was the initiative meant to harm? Do the aims of the project seem like they are being achieved? Listen today and find out!

On Business Coast Radio with Mike Ryan, Senator Pauline Hanson joins us to discuss COVID-19 and a possible easing of restrictions on business and shares her views on China's Belt and Road initiative. Shane O'Reilly from O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat says rely less on Government Marketing and more of your own. Tweed Shire Councillor James Owen says the Coronavirus has been disastrous for the Tweed region. George Costi, State Operations Manager of RSPCA Queensland tells us that they have been severely impacted by the Coronavirus. And local Brewer Lost Palms Brewing Company has adjusted its strategy to keep supplying the Gold Coast with liquid gold. We catch up for a virtual beer with Zac Nalder...

After months of hiatus, In The World Podcast is back with more interesting topics to uncover. In the first episode of its comeback, we will discuss China's Belt and Road Initiative, its fate after COVID-19, and the Health Silk Road -- as dubbed by the Chinese Government; a Chinese response to the pandemic by capitalizing on its Belt and Road foundations.

Amid the worsening COVID-19 epidemic, China’s Belt and Road Initiative is facing its single greatest challenge since President Xi Jinping launch the BRI in 2013 when he promised countries around the world greater access to Chinese markets and capital. That interconnectedness was once widely regarded in Africa and elsewhere as a huge opportunity, but now as store shelves in Nairobi run bare, oil piles up on the docks at the Port of Luanda, and BRI-inspired construction projects across the continent have stalled, that dependence on China is seen as a potentially dangerous liability.While stakeholders in countries throughout Africa, MENA and the Gulf regions are starting to call for a re-evaluation of their dependence on Chinese trade and financing, those questions may, in fact, be academic in the end because the reality is that there may not be a comparable alternative to China. The U.S., Japan and the EU remain difficult markets for developing countries to penetrate and none of these advanced economies are spending the kind of money on infrastructure development that Beijing is as part of the BRI.So what’s next for China’s BRI in Africa, the Mideast and Mediterranean regions? Zayed University political science professor Jonathan Fulton closely follows the BRI from Abu Dhabi and is cautiously optimistic that once the COVID-19 outbreak stabilizes, China’s BRI partners in these various regions will go back to business as usual because, well, they have to.Johnathan joins Eric & Cobus to talk about what impact he forecasts that COVID-19 will have on China’s once ambitious global trading agenda.JOIN THE DISCUSSION:Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProject Twitter: @eolander | @stadenesque | @jonathandfultonSUPPORT THIS PODCAST. BECOME A SUBSCRIBER TO THE CHINA AFRICA PROJECT.Your subscription supports independent journalism. Subscribers get the following:1. A daily email newsletter of the top China-Africa news.2. Access to the China-Africa Experts Network3. Unlimited access to the CAP's exclusive analysis content on chinaafricaproject.comSubscribe today and get two-weeks free: www.chinaafricaproject.com/subscribe

The intellectuals look at China's Belt and Road Initiative as part of the China Miniseries.

We continue our visits on Friday looking into the how and why's that "It takes a long time to get young." Show highlights: -Patrick shares a dream experience and talks about consciousness and how things affect us if we allow them to -Fairness and Karma -How the sun affects temperatures on Earth (w/ Valentina Zharkova, Northumbria University) -Patrick talks about a test to check the microbiome of his dog, Doodle  -Dr. Shiver calls in to talk a bit about nose tunneling and he shares how he's helping Patrick with his neck -Sinus allergies can be resolved sometimes by focusing on the upper neck in chiropractic -White rice doesn't contain arsenic -We talk about the new Wuhan corona virus, propaganda, and the Hegelian dialectic From Atom Bergstrom: The Wuhan coronavirus is only a blip compared to the Spanish flu, which killed 50 million people, including 675,000 Americans. The "Spanish" flu started in Kansas, and gained virulence circling the world, being deadliest on its third trip around the globe. It's politics. The "Five Eyes" are threatened by China's Belt and Road Initiative. That's why coronavirus is being called the Belt and Road Pandemic. -Patrick shares his take on aging then a listener asks, "If your theory that being hyper aware of time ages us, then why do people born with mental disabilities, or those who had a severe brain injury and don’t have a conventional concept of reality, let alone time, still age?" Please leave your thoughts below in the comments section if you have some ideas on this -Have you seen Vaxxed 2? -From Atom Bergstrom: Itching of the nose is a symptom of tunneling electrons being activated within the receptors of the quantum nose — intuition. The nose knows.  and so much more!

We continue our visits on Friday looking into the how and why's that "It takes a long time to get young." Show highlights: -Patrick shares a dream experience and talks about consciousness and how things affect us if we allow them to -Fairness and Karma -How the sun affects temperatures on Earth (w/ Valentina Zharkova, Northumbria University) -Patrick talks about a test to check the microbiome of his dog, Doodle  -Dr. Shiver calls in to talk a bit about nose tunneling and he shares how he's helping Patrick with his neck -Sinus allergies can be resolved sometimes by focusing on the upper neck in chiropractic -White rice doesn't contain arsenic -We talk about the new Wuhan corona virus, propaganda, and the Hegelian dialectic From Atom Bergstrom: The Wuhan coronavirus is only a blip compared to the Spanish flu, which killed 50 million people, including 675,000 Americans. The "Spanish" flu started in Kansas, and gained virulence circling the world, being deadliest on its third trip around the globe. It's politics. The "Five Eyes" are threatened by China's Belt and Road Initiative. That's why coronavirus is being called the Belt and Road Pandemic. -Patrick shares his take on aging then a listener asks, "If your theory that being hyper aware of time ages us, then why do people born with mental disabilities, or those who had a severe brain injury and don’t have a conventional concept of reality, let alone time, still age?" Please leave your thoughts below in the comments section if you have some ideas on this -Have you seen Vaxxed 2? -From Atom Bergstrom: Itching of the nose is a symptom of tunneling electrons being activated within the receptors of the quantum nose — intuition. The nose knows.  and so much more!

In this episode, we explore the Trump side of the US-China Trade War, including protectionism, US de-industrialization, China's trade violations and the alleged new cold war taking place before our very eyes.Please subscribe and leave a 5-star review - thank you!***‘Why Trump Will Win the US China Trade War – Stephen Moore’, American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times, YouTube.‘US China Trade War: ‘Trump is Not Going to Back Down….This is a War of Values’ – Curtis Ellis’, American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times, YouTube.‘Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy’, Stephen Moore and Arthur B. Laffer, 2018, All Points Books, United States.‘Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System’, Paul Blustein, 2019, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada.‘Trade War From The Chinese Side’, Milton Ezrati, Forbes.‘How China Really Sees the Trade War’, Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs.‘The U.S. Trade War Has Caught Beijing’s Attention. Now Washington Needs a Longer-Term Plan.’, Tim Roemer, Foreign Policy.‘2018 Data Report’, Reshoring Initiative.U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.‘The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade’, David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson, NBER Working Paper No. 21906, January 2016, National Bureau of Economic Research.‘Trump’s Push to Bring Back Jobs to U.S. Shows Limited Results’, Jim Tankersley, New York Times.‘WTO chief: 'Months' needed to fix disputes body’’, Jonathan Josephs, BBC.‘David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets’, Econ Talk Podcast.‘China’s Currency Moves Escalate Trade War, Rattling Markets’, Ana Swanson, Alexandra Stevenson and Jenna Smialek, New York Times.‘Does China manipulate its currency as Donald Trump claims?’, Farok J Contractor, The Conversation.‘Why Capital Flows Uphill’, Peter Passell, Foreign Policy.‘Why China Buys U.S. Debt With Treasury Bonds’, Shobhit Seth, Investopedia.‘The Impact of China Devaluing the Yuan’, Investopedia.‘China's Xi allowed to remain 'president for life' as term limits removed’, BBC.‘China has started ranking citizens with a creepy 'social credit' system’, Alexandra Ma, Business Insider.‘Made in China 2025: The Industrial Plan that China Doesn’t Want Anyone Talking About’, Emily Crawford, PBS.‘China NBA: How one tweet derailed the NBA's China game plan’, Mark Dreyer, BBC.‘Australia to tighten foreign investment rules amid China concerns’, Jamie Smyth, Financial Times.‘China's Belt and Road Initiative: Where it goes and what it's supposed to accomplish’, CBC.‘China’s Sea Control Is a Done Deal, ‘Short of War With the U.S’’, Hannah Beech, New York Times. ‘Steve Bannon's Warning On China Trade War (w/ Kyle Bass) | Real Vision Classics’, Real Vision Finance, YouTube.‘Steve Bannon on the US-China trade war (full interview)’, CNBC Television, YouTube.‘US China Trade War: ’Trump is Not Going to Back Down… This is a War of Values’—Curtis Ellis’, America Thought Leader – The Epoch Times, YouTube.***Music: Julian AngelatosArtwork: Nerpa Mate

On this edition of Friday Night Live, Hafiz Sha'ban returns to host the show on the topics of China's Belt Road Initiative, Iran, Press regulator's view on Muslim coverage.

#Trade #relations #China became the world's largest trading nation in 2013, as measured by the sum of imports and exports.[208] By 2016, China was the largest trading partner of 124 other countries.[209] In 2017, China exported $2.26 trillion in goods while it imported $1.84 trillion.[210] In recent decades, China has played an increasing role in calling for free trade areas and security pacts amongst its Asia-Pacific neighbours. China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 11 December 2001. In 2004, it proposed an entirely new East Asia Summit (EAS) framework as a forum for regional security issues.[211] The EAS, which includes ASEAN Plus Three, India, Australia and New Zealand, held its inaugural summit in 2005. China is also a founding member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), along with Russia and the Central Asian republics. China has had a long and complex trade relationship with the United States. In 2000, the United States Congress approved "permanent normal trade relations" (PNTR) with China, allowing Chinese exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries.[212] China has a significant trade surplus with the United States, its most important export market.[213] In the early 2010s, US politicians argued that the Chinese yuan was significantly undervalued, giving China an unfair trade advantage.[214][215][216] Since the turn of the century, China has followed a policy of engaging with African nations for trade and bilateral co-operation;[217][218][219] in 2012, Sino-African trade totalled over US$160 billion.[220] China maintains healthy and highly diversified trade links with the European Union. China has furthermore strengthened its ties with major South American economies, becoming the largest trading partner of Brazil and building strategic links with Argentina.[221][222] China's Belt and Road Initiative has expanded significantly over the last six years and, as of 2019, includes 137 countries and 30 international organizations.[223] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vegansteven/message

To the relief of the UK government, Chinese firm Jingye has promised to rescue British Steel, an iconic company that employs 4,000 people. We ask Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World, whether the UK is being drawn into China's Belt and Road plan. Protests in Lebanon show little sign of easing up; the entire financial and political system is the focus of the anger. The BBC's Ivana Davidovic has been finding out more. There is an argument that the American Dream is dead and that meritocracy and hard work aren't valued any more. But some do still live the dream and we hear from one such success story; Rob Bernshteyn, CEO of fintech company, Coupa Software which is worth around US$1.6 billion. Vast parts of Australia's east coast are bracing for potentially catastrophic bushfires today and we're joined by the BBC's Phil Mercer in Maitland, an inland city 165 km north of Sydney. China's annual Singles Day has morphed into an enormous frenzy of shopping and green groups are warning all this comes at a huge cost to the environment. We hear from Tang Damin, a plastics campaigner with Greenpeace in Beijing. And joining us throughout the programme are Simon Littlewood in Singapore - he's President of AC Growth Delivered. And in California, Alison Van Diggelen, is host of Fresh Dialogues. Photo description: British Steel's Scunthorpe works Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

It was great having Chris Devonshire-Ellis, Founding Partner & Chairman of Dezan Shira & Associates, sits down on RTD to educate viewers on China's Belt and Road Initiative. Chris talks about "Ghost Cities", the role of gold in the next world order, & a lot more. Find out more from the video interview here on the RTD website: https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/chinas-silk-road-gold-fund-is-investing-to-create-wealth-w-chris-devonshire-ellis/

A deeper look into China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and how Xi Jinping is positioning it globally, regionally and domestically.The BRI is often seen as a global power move, and while this is the case, it’s not the whole story. In this China Connection podcast episode, Argus Chief Economist David Fyfe and Argus Vice President, China Crude and Products Tom Reed discuss what even smaller countries are finding to be the pros and cons of the BRI.

​​​Elizabeth C. Economy discusses how China is exercising global leadership through its foreign policy and the Belt and Road Initiative.

In line with the Budget 2020 announcement of a special channel under InvestKL to attract more investments from China, we examine the opportunities presented by the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), a platform for Malaysian companies to explore more trade and investments to/from China and other participating countries. What are the risks? What are the promising sectors? Which technology companies are we hoping to attract? We speak with Dr. Ong Kian Ming, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry; Koh King Kee, Director of China's Belt & Road Desk at Baker Tilly Advisory; and Koong Lin Loong, Managing Partner of Reanda LLKG International, Chairman of the SME Committee and national council member of the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM).

Straits Times Regional Correspondent, Leslie Lopez discusses the latest headlines from the ASEAN region including where China's Belt and Road Initiative currently has its investments, Thailand's ruling coalition moving closer to losing its majority and how disagreements within the Malaysian ruling party coalition can be resolved.

Tyler Bonin (@tylermbonin) returns to What's the Res to help with the NSDA Public Forum Sept/Oct resolution - "The EU should join the Belt and Road Initiative." What exactly is the Belt and Road Initiative? Tyler has published on the topic (that article is here), and defines the goals and efforts of the Chinese government in understandable English. Josh and Tyler discuss the nature, history, potential advantages and harms of Chinese lending policy to create global infrastructure. Does this count as predatory lending? Listen in, and let us know what you think!  WhatsTheRes@gmail.com Instagram, Twitter, Reddit - @Whatstheres_ Facebook - Faceboom.com/Whatstheres

In this episode, the Trade Guys and Andrew discuss the Trump administration's designation of China as a currency manipulator. They also welcome a special in-house guest, Jonathan Hillman, who is a senior fellow with the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy and directs the Reconnecting Asia Project. Reconnecting Asia tracks new roads, railways, ports, and other infrastructure projects across Eurasia--and most notably, China's Belt & Road initiative. Download the full transcript here.

China's OBOR initiaive seeks to dump excess domestic capacity abroad.

King's College's Giulio Pugliese and Senior Fellow Devin Stewart discuss the political climate in Italy, with the Northern League and the Five Star Movement representing various types of dissatisfaction with the status quo, and China's increasing interest in the nation via its Belt and Road Initiative. What could Italy get out of this relationship? What kinds of concerns do Italians have about Xi Jinping's China?

King's College's Giulio Pugliese and Senior Fellow Devin Stewart discuss the political climate in Italy, with the Northern League and the Five Star Movement representing various types of dissatisfaction with the status quo, and China's increasing interest in the nation via its Belt and Road Initiative. What could Italy get out of this relationship? What kinds of concerns do Italians have about Xi Jinping's China?

This episode references: Italy signing a Belt and Road MOU https://www.cfr.org/article/chinas-belt-and-road-gets-win-italy Sri Lanka turns over operations of a port to China https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lanka-port.html Dubai Ports World suing Djibouti and China Merchants over port access https://qz.com/africa/1560998/djibouti-dp-world-port-case-challenges-chinas-belt-and-road/ CSIS Report “The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge” https://www.csis.org/higherroad Jonathan Hillman is the Director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies https://www.csis.org/people/jonathan-e-hillman

The world's super powers are on edge as China's trade policy projects increasingly dot the world map. 

Since the widening of Russia's rift with the West in 2014, relations between Russia and China have entered a new stage, characterized by a more robust political, military and economic cooperation. In spite of a number of problems and asymmetries in bilateral relations, the two states’ interdependence has been growing against the background of mounting tensions with Washington. Are the two countries moving closer to an alliance? What has been the balance between political, military and economic cooperation, and what challenges have emerged? What are the driving factors behind Russia's position on China's Belt and Road Initiative and what is the logic of the Greater Eurasian Partnership? Where do Russia's interests in Asia converge and diverge with those of China and what are the implications? Is there room for U.S.-Russia cooperation in Asia and what would that look like?This event is made possible by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

China's foreign policy to seek places to dump excess capacity is failing fast.

The U.S. teams up with Japan, Australia, Canada, and the EU to offer an alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative, which has been accused of being debt trap diplomacy. It comes as the White House is pushing trade negations with China that may result in major new tariffs, and Italy joins with the Belt and Road.

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) invites you to a discussion on the Belt and Road Initiative – China's global vision for trade, infrastructure and political cooperation – and its relation to international order. China's importance as a global provider of investments, loans and development aid has increased significantly over the past decades. This has sparked both hopes of new economic opportunity and concerns over effects on the established international order. For example, the Belt and Road Initiative has been criticised for drawing economically vulnerable developing countries into “debt traps” as a way to increase China's political influence. How does China's model for economic and political cooperation differ from and challenge established international practices, norms and standards? Will China reshape the international order through its Belt and Road Initiative? Welcome to the first seminar of the Global China Series, organised together with the Stockholm Observatory for Global China. Speakers: Amanda Cheney, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Lund University Johanna Malm, PhD in International Development Studies from Roskilde University Tim Rühlig, Research Fellow at UI Moderator: Björn Jerdén, Head of UI's Asia Programme.

In the last decade, not one of the fastest growing economies was located in the western hemisphere. Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University, discusses China's transformational changes and why we must pay attention. Guest Biography Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University. His translation of The Alexiad was published by Penguin Classics in 2009. In 2012, his book The First Crusade: The Call from the East with Bodley Head/Vintage and was hailed as the ‘the most significant contribution to re-thinking the origins and causes of the First Crusade for a generation’ (TLS). It has since appeared in ten languages. In 2015, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World was published to world-wide acclaim. It was named as one of the Books of the Year in almost every single publication in the UK. It has since been published in more than 22 languages. The Silk Roads was a Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, a New York Times Top 10, and topped the non-fiction charts around the world, including in China. It has been described as ‘breath-taking and addictively readable’ (Daily Telegraph); ‘astonishing’ (Vanity Fair); ‘dazzling’ (South China Morning Post); ‘not only the most important history book written for years, but the most important in decades’ (Berliner Zeitung) and ‘a magnificent book’ by the Prime Minister of France. In October 2018, an illustrated edition of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World will be published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World was published in March by Alfred A. Knopf. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Anthropological Society, the Royal Geographic Society and the Royal Society of Arts. He is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is a special advisor at the UN and a senior advisor to the World Bank on transport corridors. Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/089 In this episode, you will learn: Why curiosity may be the most important skill. Learn about China's Belt and Road Initiative and why its impact could be significant. Position yourself for the future by keeping an open mind toward learning about other cultures. Find more from our guest: peterfrankopan.com Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Mentioned in this episode: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World Music Spotify playlist - Song of the Steppes by Peter Frankopan Spotify playlist -Best Russian Folk Songs by Peter Frankopan Spotify playlist - Top Chinese Pop Hits 1996-2018 by Jo Chan K-Pop Rising playlist by Spotify Runnymede Money Tip of the Week: Passive versus active for international investing. Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

China will host its second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 26-27, two years after hosting its inaugural forum that was attended by dozens of world leaders and put a spotlight on Beijing’s massive signature initiative and its global leadership ambitions. This conference features two panels: The first discusses cross-regional trends and concerns about BRI, alternatives to the Chinese model of investment and development, and strategies for increasing the sustainability of international development efforts. The second panel examines the on-the-ground impact of BRI in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa and implications for conflict dynamics in these regions.   Panel 1: Toward High-Quality Projects: Comparing BRI’s Implementation to Global Standards Samantha CusterDirector of Policy Analysis, AidData Scott MorrisSenior Fellow and Director of the U.S. Development Policy Initiative, Center for Global Development Pauline MuchinaPublic Education and Advocacy Coordinator, Africa Region, American Friends Service Committee Fei YuDeputy Representative, North American Representative Office of the Asian Development Bank Patricia Kim, moderatorSenior Policy Analyst, China Program, U.S. Institute of Peace    Panel 2: BRI’s Impact on Local and Regional Dynamics: Force for Stability or Driver of Conflict? Brian HardingDeputy Director and Fellow, Southeast Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies Khin Khin Kyaw KyeeLead Researcher, Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar Paul Nantulya Research Associate, Africa Center for Strategic Studies Andrew Small Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Asia Program, German Marshall Fund of the United States Jacob Stokes, moderatorSenior Policy Analyst, China Program, U.S. Institute of Peace

37 foreign heads of state came to Beijing this week to take part in the second Belt and Road summit hosted by Chinese president Xi Jinping. Some leaders like Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta came with expectations to sign huge infrastructure loan deals, while others, including Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed, asked for debt relief. But amid all of the deals and big announcements at the summit, the underlying message about what exactly is the Belt and Road and what does it stand for is still not clear to a lot of people. Is it China's grand plan for global domination that uses debt as a tool of control, as the United States and others contend? Or, is it a new global development platform that the Chinese say is meant to propel its much-heralded "win-win" diplomacy? Mired by sloppy deal-making, poor planning, and clumsy diplomacy in recent years, the Belt and Road Initiative has seemingly lost its focus and President Xi, no doubt, wants to use the recent summit as a way to get the BRI back on track again. THIS WEEK'S GUEST: Erik Myxter-lino, host of the Belt and Road Podcast, is a close observer of BRI politics and has followed this initiative from the beginning, back in 2013. Erik joins Eric & Cobus to discuss why he thinks it's so difficult for the Chinese to explain what BRI is really all about. JOIN THE DISCUSSION: What do you think of China's Belt and Road Initiative? A ploy to entrap poor countries with the lure of cheap loans? Or do you think this is a legitimate development agenda that aims to improve the lives of millions through new infrastructure? Let us know. Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChinaAfricaProject Twitter: @eolander | @stadenesque | @emyxter | @beltandroadpod Email: eric@chinaafricaproject.com | cobus@chinaafricaproject.com   Subscribe to the Belt and Road Podcast here   Sign up here if you would like to join our weekly email newsletter mailing list for a carefully curated selection of the week's top China-Africa news. 

Leslie Palti-Guzman exchanges with Dr. Kelly Sims Gallagher, a Tufts University Fletcher School professor and former US climate policymaker, on her new book Titans of Climate. They chat about the reasons that motivated her and her co-author to write the book and the process of writing it. Kelly tells us about China's post-Paris agreement climate actions and China's progress on being a responsible stakeholder. They talk about energy investments within China's Belt and Road initiative and Beijing's ambition to make it greener, as well as US-led Indo-Pacific strategy. In terms of personal trajectory, Kelly explains how it is more challenging for a woman to become a professor with tenure, and how she embraced the opportunity to work for the government--despite feeling guilty for her family at first. 

Lower expectations for PH growth. US warns against China's Belt and Road initiative. Immediate plans for BARMM. And DOH says #EndTBNowNa! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pumapodcast/message

The role of China in the world economy is viewed largely negatively in the dominant Western press.China is portrayed as a new Imperialist power, seeking to put developing countries in a "debt trap" in order to capture their resources, strategic assets and locations.This is highly ironic coming from former and still currently Imperial countries, who have engaged in this activity on unprecedented scales in the present and the past.One should not romanticise China's efforts, of course.But one needs to understand its perspective and goals, which are quite different from the former and current Imperialist powers.Indeed, the Belt and Road initiative -- China's massive international infrastructural initiative meant to connect the whole world in a single road and maritime route -- comes from long efforts to DECOLONISE the world economic system.In fact, the Belt and Road Initiative -- or the "New Silk Road" -- was not developed by China, but by the American-based global movement of the recently deceased Lyndon LaRouche.Lyndon LaRouche had been involved in theorising about and politically mobilising world leader for a change in the unfair global economic system which was designed in a way that left the mass of humanity at the level of base existence while only a few benefited.His recently widowed wife, Helga Zepp LaRouche, has been by his side for more than 40 years in this struggle, being a leader in her own right, and a champion of the Belt and Road initiative in particular.She was largely behind the successful effort to get China to adopt their New Silk Road proposal, and Zepp LaRouche is leading the movement for the United States to get on board, as well as Europe. Success on these fronts is in sight.I am pleased and honoured to have Helga Zepp LaRouche as my guest this week on Independent Thought and Freedom to explain the whole process for us.

On Twitter, President Trump has taken aim directly at the British origin of Russiagate, causing a hysterical reaction in the UK. In Europe, Italy is bailing on Brussels and the EU's anti-China policy as it joins China's Belt and Road Initiative, part of a new paradigm that leading Italians acknowledge as originating from Lyndon and Helga LaRouche. And to embrace a paradigm of growth, we must reject the Green New Deal, based on a fancied "consensus" on climate change. We support Trump's proposal for a Committee on Climate Science. Hamiltonian newspaper — http://lpac.co/hamiltonian-subscribe Support the climate committee — https://larouchepac.com/20190311/president-trump-s-committee-climate-security-much-needed-overdue-return-science

Gideon Rachman discusses Italy's controversial move to endorse China's Belt and Road Initiative with Miles Johnson and Christian Shepherd See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jonathan Hillman, Senior Fellow of the Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Director of CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project, discusses China’s $1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative. What is it? What are China’s goals and objectives? What is the outlook? What are Implications for 'receipient' countries, and for the U.S?   

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the One Belt, One Road Initiative. The massive infrastructure project aims to link countries along the old Silk Road routes with Europe. China has spent close to $150 billion a year in the 68 countries that are taking part. Such a large undertaking has immense implications for the environment. Duke University faculty member Alexander Pfaff has been detailing the potential environmental risks of the BRI and considering alternatives that would avoid environmental damage while still allowing for improved infrastructure. Subscribe to the Policy 360 podcast: www.policy360.org/ Read a transcript: sites.duke.edu/policy360/2019/02…-road-initiative/ Image: Duke University Music: Open Flames by Blue Dot Sessions freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/ (Creative Commons License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ )

**Bruegel fellows Alicia García-Herrero and Uri Dadush join Guntram Wolff for this Director's Cut of 'The Sound of Economics', focusing on the progress made by China's Belt and Road Initiative, how it will continue to develop, and the reactions it has stirred across the world.** China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a trade and development strategy proposed by Xi Jinping in 2013. It aims to enhance development prospects via infrastructure, trade, and investment on a trans-continental scale, and is hence often referred to as 'the 21st century's Silk Road'. Five years after its launch, how well has the BRI been received and how much potential does it still hold? Two Bruegel scholars, Alicia García-Herrero and Uri Dadush sit down with Bruegel's director Guntram Wolff to discuss their analyses of the initiative. In a recent [Policy Contribution](http://bruegel.org/2019/01/the-belt-and-road-turns-five/), Uri Dadush and Michael Baltensperger reflect on the background and context of the BRI, and critically assess the project's potential for future performance. In this podcast episode, Uri points to the worrisome aspects of the initiative, particularly the lack of transparency and due diligence concerning the issue of debt trap, as well as China's poor regard for the possible environmental impact. In a newly released [Working Paper](http://bruegel.org/2019/02/countries-perceptions-of-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-a-big-data-analysis/), Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu analyse large amounts of data to identify the trends in the global perception of the BRI. In this episode Alicia lets us in on their findings. For example, she explains why – despite the generally positive image of the initiative – it is the Central European countries, which benefited from substantial assistance from China, that have a relatively negative perception of the initiative. For further reading, you may consider Simone Tagliapietra and Shivali Pandya's [blog post on Chinese investment in European maritime ports](http://bruegel.org/2018/06/chinas-strategic-investments-in-europe-the-case-of-maritime-ports/), as well as a piece by Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu discussing [what the Belt and Road Initiative means for EU trade](http://bruegel.org/2016/09/what-does-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-mean-for-eu-trade/).

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) strives to improve infrastructure, trade, financial integration, and people-to-people bonds across more than 80 countries. Its digital dimensions are far-reaching, including fiber optic cables, 5G networks, satellites, and devices that connect to these systems. Please join the CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project for a discussion of these developments and their implications for U.S. economic and strategic interests.  Featuring an expert panel discussion withDr. Robert Atkinson President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Lt. Gen. William Mayville (Ret.) Former Deputy Commander, U.S. Cyber Command Emily Rauhala Staff Writer, The Washington Post  Moderated byKate O'Keeffe Reporter, The Wall Street Journal  Welcoming remarks byMatthew P. Goodman Senior Vice President; William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy and Senior Adviser for Asian Economics  With special presentations by Hirobumi Kayama Special Advisor, Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry Jonathan E. Hillman Senior Fellow, Simon Chair in Political Economy, and Director, Reconnecting Asia Project  This event is made possible by generous support from JETRO NY.

Parag Khanna, futurist, TED speaker and founder of Futuremap, joined us to discuss his book "The Future is Asian". We kick off the conversation on the main themes of the book, and taking the Asian perspective on how we should look at world history. We discuss the geopolitical landscape of Asia, and why China's Belt and Road Initiative will not led to a bi-polar world but will shift the rest of Asia towards independence and have the ability to assert their identity in the next century. Last but not least, Parag shared his advice for those out there who might want to come to Asia and why the future is truly Asian.

In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Bruno Maçães, the former Europe minister of Portugal, in conversation with Oxford economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh. They talked about China's Belt and Road strategy, widely acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2013 China launched its flagship economic project, the 'Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI). In the five years since the initiative has rapidly expanded trade and infrastructure relationships between China and 88 countries in Eurasia and Africa, covering over 60% of global GDP. Ben speaks to the Asia-Pacific Programme's Yu Jie to find out more. The rise of populism is a phenomenon affecting political systems across the West. From the 2016 electoral shocks of Brexit and Trump through to the victories of Salvini and Bolsonaro in 2018, conventional ideological divisions between left and right are being dismantled and replaced by a politics of polarization and identity-fuelled tribalism. Agnes speaks to the Europe Programme's Matthew Goodwin about his new book on 'national populism'.  Read the Chatham House Expert Comment: Money, Might and Mindset: China's Self-centred Global Ambition Listen to the interview: Yu Jie on China's halloumi craze [from 27:00] Find the book: National Populism: the Revolt Against Liberal Democracy

In 2013 China launched its flagship economic project, the 'Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI). In the five years since the initiative has rapidly expanded trade and infrastructure relationships between China and 88 countries in Eurasia and Africa, covering over 60% of global GDP. Ben speaks to the Asia-Pacific Programme's Yu Jie to find out more. The rise of populism is a phenomenon affecting political systems across the West. From the 2016 electoral shocks of Brexit and Trump through to the victories of Salvini and Bolsonaro in 2018, conventional ideological divisions between left and right are being dismantled and replaced by a politics of polarization and identity-fuelled tribalism. Agnes speaks to the Europe Programme's Matthew Goodwin about his new book on 'national populism'.  Read the Chatham House Expert Comment: Money, Might and Mindset: China's Self-centred Global Ambition Listen to the interview: Yu Jie on China's halloumi craze [from 27:00] Find the book: National Populism: the Revolt Against Liberal Democracy

In the final episode of our special series on China's Belt and Road initiative, we go to Europe to learn more about how that continent is involved with the giant infrastructure project. Bloomberg reporter Tom Mackensie takes us to a sprawling port in Athens dubbed the "Dragon's Head," and run by China in partnership with Costco; and then to a small town in Germany that is being transformed by the project.

See the video here: www.beltandroad.ventures/podcasts/ Ankur Shah (安然) is a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and National Geographic’s Young Explorer. He earned a degree in Chinese and Russian from the University of Edinburgh. During his studies, he spent 15 months living between Sichuan and St Petersburg and worked on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostok. Afterward, Ankur worked at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on the organization’s Silk Road Online Platform. The desire to explore saw Ankur partake in a 23,000 km Silk Road expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic, driving from Venice to Xi'an. Ankur spent 4 months retracing the footsteps of Marco Polo across 16 Silk Road countries, researching China's Belt and Road initiative, interviewing key stakeholders and visiting 16 Belt and Road projects across Eurasia. On this podcast, Ankur Shah shares his observations from his visits to Belt and Road Project’s sites and stories from his expedition following footsteps of Marco Polo along the Silk Road.

See the video here: www.beltandroad.ventures/podcasts Ankur Shah (安然) is a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and National Geographic’s Young Explorer. He earned a degree in Chinese and Russian from the University of Edinburgh. During his studies, he spent 15 months living between Sichuan and St Petersburg and worked on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostok. Afterward, Ankur worked at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on the organization’s Silk Road Online Platform. The desire to explore saw Ankur partake in a 23,000km Silk Road expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic, driving from Venice to Xi'an. Ankur spent 4 months retracing the footsteps of Marco Polo across 16 Silk Road countries, researching China's Belt and Road initiative, interviewing key stakeholders and visiting 16 Belt and Road projects across Eurasia. Following the expedition, Ankur returned to London and worked as an analyst at a leading political risk consultancy in the firm's Former Soviet Union team. Now based in Beijing, Ankur is researching the Sino-Russian strategic partnership, and more specifically, how the BRI will collaborate and compete with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union.  On this podcast, Ankur Shah shares his observations from his visits to Belt and Road Project’s sites and stories from his expedition following footsteps of Marco Polo along the Silk Road.

In the third episode of this four-part series on China's Belt and Road initiative, we look at Kenya and how Chinese investment in cargo and commuter railways between Mombasa and Nairobi is impacting economic development in the region. Bloomberg TV producer Rosalind Chin and series host David Tweed discuss how strengthening ties between these two countries may play out.

Mike Billington discusses Lyndon LaRouche's decades of work to eliminate the British Empire in all its various forms, and the potential to finally accomplish that feat with Trump's presidency and China's Belt and Road Initiative.

In the second of this four-part series on China's Belt and Road initiative, we talk to Haslinda Amin, who hosts the second episode of Bloomberg's TV series on the initiative and has traveled extensively through Southeast and Central Asia for the project. She looks at the complex ways countries in the region view China's sprawling infrastructure investment. India, for example, has one of the world's largest rail networks, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has committed in excess of 3 billion dollars to the country's transportation system. This episode explores the political and strategic reasons China is interested in contributing to boosting India's infrastructure.

This week, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Andrew Small, senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C. Andrew is one of surprisingly few scholars with specialized experience researching China's relations with what it calls its "all-weather friend" — Pakistan. His book from 2015 on the subject is titled The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics. Kaiser, Jeremy, and Andrew discuss how Sino-Pakistani ties have been impacted by the recent election of Imran Khan to prime minister, Pakistan's economic difficulties, and the numerous projects that comprise the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC – one of the most important components of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Recommendations: Jeremy: What3Words, a startup that has divided the entire world into a grid of 57 trillion squares, each of them three meters by three meters (9.8 feet), and assigned each square a three-word address, generated randomly by computer. Improving.shrimps.legal, for instance, is located just south of the Chairman Mao portrait at Tiananmen in Beijing. Read more about the system and its implications for developing countries and China on SupChina. Andrew: Two alternative views on how an economic “decoupling” of the U.S. and China could happen, other than the tariff-driven trade war path currently being taken. First, “Trump thinks a trade war with China is the only option, but it’s not,” a piece by Dan Rosen in Foreign Affairs, and second, “Jennifer Hillman testifies on addressing Chinese market distortions,” where the Georgetown Law professor lays out before the U.S. Senate in early June how litigation could be brought before the World Trade Organization to address grievances against China. Kaiser: Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, by Eric Schlosser.

Commentary of China's Belt, Road Initiative and review of the week's world news events  #silkroad #beltroadinitiative #affrica #chinaaid #eu #africa #yellowperil #marshallplan #debttrap #chinesemilitary #foreignaid #russianpensions #putin #brexit #russianorthodoxchurch #ukrainianorthodoxchurch #nafta #canada #canadiandairyfarmers #brettkavanaugh #trump #refugees #dutchrefugees #dutchdreamers scubadiving, pakistan #palestinianrefugees

In this podcast, Martin Jacques, best-selling author of When China Rules the World, talks about how he sees China's Belt & Road Initiative as the driver of China's economic growth and geopolitical influence over the next 50 years. https://bit.ly/2OyYT8Y Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also a fellow of the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC. He was until recently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at IDEAS, a center for diplomacy and grand strategy at the London School of Economics.

Visit https://www.KeshaRogers.com - Join us LIVE at 10:30am Eastern with our host, Matthew Ogden, and special guests Congressional Candidate Kesha Rogers (TX-9), and Dennis Small of EIR Magazine. We'll be discussing the NABRI - North American Belt and Road Alliance, the proposal to link the North American continent with China's Belt and Road Economic Initiative.

China's Belt and Road Initiative has significant economic potential for ASEAN to tap on. Can ASEAN harmonise their social policies in response to this new infrastructural project?  Guests: Ho Geok Choo, CEO of Human Capital (Singapore); Anselm Chu, Managing Director & School Director of the Singapore Cambodia International Academy, SIM Group; Cheryl Lim, Partner at McKinsey & Company and Jimmy Koh, Managing Director with UOB Group within the Wholesale Banking/ Sector Solutions, Group Business Insights and Analytics.

The crisis within the European Union never was limited to the ability of Greece, Spain, Italy, or any other nation to repay their debt. Beginning with the Maastricht Treaty, signed in February 1992, Helga Zepp LaRouche and the Schiller Institute have repeatedly pointed out that the EU institutions were badly flawed from the start, by design, as they were created to serve the interests of neo-liberal financial speculators of the City of London and Wall Street, and the unilateralist neo-cons allied with them, not the people of the nations of Europe. Since Brexit, in country after country in Europe, voters have been in a state of rebellion, rejecting the established parties, just as American voters did in electing Donald Trump, who promised to end the era of corporate free trade policies, austerity, bailouts and regime change wars. Most significant, was Trump's rejection of the Obama policy of confrontation with Russia and China, which was supported by most EU nations. Trump's determination to meet with Russian President Putin, to achieve a cooperative relationship with him, has created a new level of hysteria, with the meeting of the two now set for Helsinki triggering new, even more extreme panic among governments struggling to survive. The resignations this week of top officials in the May government in the U.K. is exemplary of a regime in disarray, as officials are incapable of thinking outside the axioms of the rapidly disintegrating institutions. Helga Zepp LaRouche was never content to merely point out the shortcomings of these institutions. She has led an effective international campaign, to gain support for a New Paradigm, based on the economic ideas of her husband, Lyndon LaRouche, many of which are now shaping the global development plan of China's President Xi Jinping, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). She has played a leading role in introducing the principles behind this plan to Western governments, many of which are now participating on some level in the BRI. Her recent call for the EU to drop its opposition to China's BRI, and adopt instead the "Singapore example," to instead work with China to develop Africa, is being discussed in many countries, though many governments are still proving to be incapable of breaking from the constraints of the old paradigm. Join Mrs. LaRouche your host Harley Schlanger this Thursday, and every Thursday, as she presents the latest update on this dynamic unfolding process, and provides strategic guidance to citizens who wish to move their nations out from under the dictatorship represented by the old, submissive thinking, and bring them into the New Paradigm.

On the Global Ethics Forum series finale, best-selling author Robert Kaplan discusses China's global ambitions in an increasingly connected world. In this excerpt Kaplan discusses some of the underreported aspects of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Thanks for watching!

On the Global Ethics Forum series finale, best-selling author Robert Kaplan discusses China's global ambitions in an increasingly connected world. In this excerpt Kaplan discusses some of the underreported aspects of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Thanks for watching!

North-East Asia Senior Analyst, Josef Jelinek, and Director of Asia Pacific Research, Adam Jarczyk, discuss China's Belt and Road Initiative and its implications for multinational companies. This podcast extracts the key takeaways from FSG's recently published report of the same title, providing clarity on an opaque initiative that will wash over executives' markets, at a time when they are under increasing pressure to hit ever higher targets.

History Is Now Being Written in Asia! The EU Summit Must Follow the Example of Singapore! by Helga Zepp-LaRouche http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com/blog/2018/06/18/history-is-now-being-written-in-asia-the-eu-summit-must-follow-the-example-of-singapore There is an ongoing transformational shift underway in the world, as the era of geopolitics, with its destruction of nations through financial manipulations and wars, is being challenged by the emergence of a new era of "win-win" policies of mutual benefit, spearheaded by China's Belt and Road Initiative. Developments in Asia, with the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Qingdao, China, provide examples which show that peaceful economic cooperation is not only possible, but is already underway. The benefits of this new era can be seen in new infrastructure projects throughout Eurasia, Africa, and in South and Central America, and the clamor to be included is also heard now in a number of nations in Europe. The growing likelihood of a Trump-Putin summit is part of this new geometry, an indication that the U.S. President is breaking out of the containment intended by the fraudulent, so-called Russiagate allegations. For this moment of great opportunity to be realized, there must be an elevation in both the capabilities of creative thinking, and passionate activation, of citizens of all nations. Schiller Institute founder and President Helga Zepp LaRouche's weekly webcasts are a critical part of elevating populations to the level required by this promising moment of history. Help us organize to make these webcasts available to growing numbers of people, to bring new activists into the fight for the New Paradigm each week.

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) invites you to a discussion on the impact of China's global trade and infrastructure push, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The seminar will mark the establishment of the Stockholm Belt and Road Observatory, a research network created to tackle questions arising in relation to BRI and China's growing global footprint. Launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the BRI is connecting countries across Asia, Europe and other continents through an extensive web of infrastructure. While the Chinese government assures widely shared benefits, doubts and concerns remain about the drivers and consequences of the project. How is China's proactive economic foreign policy impacting Sweden and Europe? How does BRI relate to Chinese global leadership? Are there opportunities for Sweden and the EU in engaging China? And how can we contain possible risks emerging from the BRI? Speakers: Viking Bohman, Coordinator of the Stockholm Belt and Road Observatory Jerker Hellström, Head of Asia and Middle East Programme at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Åsa Malmström Rognes, Researcher at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University Mikael Weissmann, Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University and Senior Research Fellow at UI Jiayi Zhou, Researcher at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Moderator: Björn Jerdén, Head of UI's Asia Programme

In episode 45 of the Sustainability Agenda, Professor Bill Laurance reveals the enormous, and neglected, environmental impact of road building in the global south and highlights the massive environmental risks associated with China's dizzyingly ambitious Belt and Road initiative—a vast series of infrastructure projects across 70 countries with an estimated budget of $8 trillion. Laurance explains the traditional cycle of road development and its detrimental environmental impact–which has to date mostly been neglected: deforestation from road development can amount to 12 times the impact of any specific infrastructure related project. He also discusses the approach of overseas Chinese companies: after many decades working on the ground as a researcher in the tropics, he has seen first-hand some of the adverse environmental impact of large-scale infrastructure investment in countries with less developed regulatory systems, and the impact of huge bribes to local politicians. Finally, he looks to the future: as this issue is getting increasing attention via The Convention on Biological Diversity and leading environmental organisations, more needs to be done to get the message out. Bill Laurance is a Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, and also holds the Prince Bernhard Chair in International Nature Conservation at Utrecht University, Netherlands. His research over the past 35 years spans the tropical world, including the Amazon, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions, and his research focuses on the impacts of intensive land-uses, such as habitat fragmentation, logging, hunting and wildfires, on tropical forests and their biodiversity.  He is also interested in protected areas, climatic change, the impacts of roads and other infrastructure on biodiversity, and conservation policy.  To date, he has published eight books and over 600 scientific and popular articles. Professor Laurance has received many scientific honors including the BBVA Frontiers in Ecology and Conservation Biology Award, a Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, the Heineken Environment Prize, and the Royal Zoological Society of London's Conservation Scientist of the Year Award.  He is also founder and director of ALERT—the Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers & Thinkers, a group that advocates for environmental sustainability. The post Episode 45: The shocking detrimental environmental impact of China's Belt and Road initiative: interview with Professor Bill Laurance,Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.

The broader strategic implications of President Trump's decision on the Iran deal are not yet clear. What is clear is that the British Empire and its allies intend to escalate the tension, especially between the U.S. and Russia, and between the U.S. and China. Their goal is to sabotage the New Paradigm, which is emerging around a Four Power agreement between China, Russia, India and the U.S., centered on China's Belt-and-Road Initiative, which continues to win the support of the majority of governments, despite the desperate efforts of its geopolitical opponents, who are deploying sanctions, regime change, terrorism and proxy wars to stop it. It must also be noted that the wheels continue to fall off the Russiagate steamroller, with judges issuing rulings challenging legal assassin Robert Mueller's serial abuses of power. Further, the agencies behind it, especially the FBI, are being purged, through firings and resignations, in anticipation of indictments to come. Now is not the time to engage in armchair musings, or depressed submission. Last week, Helga Zepp-LaRouche issued a stirring challenge for an unprecedented mobilization, on behalf of the New Paradigm. Join her this week -- ON WEDNESDAY -- as she outlines what must be done to achieve victory over the degenerate oligarchs engaging in a collapsing defense of the Old Paradigm.

This episode presents a discussion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), described by our guest as Xi Jinping’s “organizing foreign policy concept.” That guest is Nadège Rolland, Senior Fellow for Political and Security Affairs at NBR. Nadège walks us through the significance of BRI, what it means for the region, and how U.S. officials and businesses should respond to the initiative. Please join us for future discussions and let us know what you think of the podcast on Twitter (@nbrnews) or via email at media@nbr.org.

Just before taking off on his Latin America tour this month, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned about China's growing engagement in the region. But with the TPP off the table and the future of NAFTA in doubt, there's more room than ever for China to fill the vacuum left by United States. The OECD's head of the Latin America and Caribbean unit Ángel Melguizo speaks with AS/COA Online's Elizabeth Gonzalez about how the region can shape its relationship with Beijing. Listen to our first podcast with Melguizo at as-coa.org/newchina and watch the full AS/COA panel on sharp power at as-coa.org/sharpower

UCLA sociologist Ching Kwan Lee discusses her new book that is the result of over six years of ethnographic research in Zambia on Chinese capital and labor. In The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa, Prof. Lee analyzes the peculiarity of outbound Chinese state capital by comparing it with global private capital in copper and construction in Zambia. Refuting the rhetorical narratives of “Chinese colonialism” and “south-south cooperation,” Prof. Lee chronicles the multi-faceted struggles that confront and differentiate these two varieties of capital, and discuss their uneven potentials for post-colonial African development, China's Belt-and-Road Initiative, and telling a more nuanced story about Global China. The book is available via Chicago University Press in December 2017: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo22657847.html This episode was recorded at UC San Diego Host & Editor: Samuel Tsoi Production Support: Mike Fausner, Anthony King, Lei Guang, Susan Shirk, Amy Robinson, Michelle Fredricks Music: Dave Liang/Shanghai Restoration Project Episode illustration credit: Ching Kwan Lee

Three years since the launch of China's flagship outbound investment strategy, One Belt One Road (OBOR), many are left uncertain - what is OBOR and what exactly is China trying to achieve? Based on study of trade-related potential for win-win development between China and Africa countries, Dr. Lauren Johnston will explain economic push factors underlying China's outbound investment agenda, and the attractiveness of selective 'Road' countries in Africa. Arguing that the timeliness of OBOR investments for particular African economies could help underlie sustained economic development, she adds a call for Australia, the only OECD member of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), to grasp related new challenges and opportunity.

Episode Host Mustafa Alrawi was at the IISS Bahrain Bay Forum in Manama this week where he heard lively and insightful debate on the impact of China's ambitions for a new silk road : on global trade links and infrastructure. Leading expert on the topic Professor Lanxin Xiang explains what the Belt and Road Initiave is and Gulf-based economist Omar Al Ubaydli discusses why China's approach has been so successful in this region.

China's Belt and Road Initiative is widely hyped, and many African governments view it as a special shot in the arm of African economic development. The scheme links China with Europe via Kenya and Egypt, and if it is built, it will be one of the biggest infrastructure projects in human history. On the surface, it's easy to see why African governments are excited. The project will provide new infrastructure to Africa, including new ports in East Africa. Also, it will link regions to each other. Kenya's new Standard Gauge Railway won't only integrate Kenya with the rest of East Africa, it will also connect the region to a massive trade route. This opens opportunities not only to connect to China, but also to Europe. Great, right? Not so fast. This week Eric and Cobus speaks to the Kenyan development economist Anzetse Were. She raises several big questions about the impact of the Belt and Road scheme on Africa. She asks how it will impact on East Africa's own development agendas, who will have power over which aspect of the project, and whether East Africa itself is ready to take full advantage of it. It is a provocative show that flips assumptions about development and China-Africa relations 

Paul Haenle speaks with Professor Xie Tao about China's Belt and Road Initiative.