Podcasts about china's new silk road

China is fast becoming a global leader in cutting-edge technologies — such as artificial intelligence, facial recognition, surveillance and 5G. But critics say China’s technology enables authoritarian control and increases dependence on an autocratic state.

The tradeoffs of China's investment in Kazakhstan require Kazakhs — most of whom are Muslim — to reckon with the persecution of Muslim minorities just across their border.

This week, we're delighted to bring you the first episode of Mary Kay Magistad's brand new podcast, On China's New Silk Road. Mary Kay is a veteran China reporter and a dear friend of the Sinica Podcast – a frequent guest in our early days. After she moved back to the States, she created another great podcast called Who's Century It It?, a show that often looked at issues related to China. We know that Sinica's audience would really appreciate her latest series and wanted to share it with you. On China's New Silk Road is a production of the Global Reporting Centre, a nonprofit group that teaches, practices and promotes innovation in global journalism. Make sure to subscribe to this great new series! We hope you enjoy this first episode.

Is history repeating itself? Today we will hear from Soha on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (which is often described as the 21st century silk road), and its effect on foreign investment in sub-saharan Africa.

If you like Whose Century Is It?, check out this preview of my new limited series podcast with the Global Reporting Centre, On China's New Silk Road. I've teamed up with great local journalists on almost every continent to explore how China's global ambition is seen around the world, and at the impact Chinese investments in one of the biggest global infrastructure efforts ever, are having on the ground. 

Join host Mary Kay Magistad as she explores how China's New Silk Road may change the world. Dozens of countries have invited China to build roads, railways, ports, 5G networks, and more. How is China’s global ambition seen around the world and what impact are its investments having on the ground? Over nine episodes, Mary Kay, a former China correspondent for NPR and PRX’s “The World,” partners with local journalists on five continents to uncover the effects of the most sweeping global infrastructure initiative in history. From the Global Reporting Centre, “On China’s New Silk Road” launches September 2, with new episodes dropping weekly.

The World Bank has loosely defined the Belt and Road Initiative project as "a China-led effort to improve connectivity and regional co-operation on a trans-continental scale through large-scale investments.” In this episode, Drew and Alex talk about China’s attempt at a modern “Silk Road" that is looking to invest in foreign infrastructure, trade routes, and more. They discuss the positives of this initiative, such as its ability to build infrastructure in poorer, less connected countries.They also discuss the growing issues that are related to this project. Many of their concerns come from the idea that China’s intentions are murky at best. The initiative may put many developing countries into "debt traps," as they will eventually be forced to pay back China in some way for these expensive projects. Others worry that China may be peddling political support from these large investment schemes, hoping to get voting power inside the U.N. Are China’s intentions mostly for the betterment of the world’s global system? Or does China have a nefarious goal of growing their economic soft power in places that aren’t happy with the status quo? 

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The contrast could not have been greater. While the dysfunctional nature of the dying G7, or G6, or G5 (!) — a remnant of British geopolitics which has dominated post-war policies — was on full display in Canada, an alternative global system was moving ahead in Qingdao, China, with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting, based on the "win-win" outlook of China's New Silk Road policy. And while the destabilized leaders of the increasingly irrelevant G7 were left to whine about President Trump abandoning them — both figuratively and literally — Trump's extraordinary summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a reflection of his orientation to Eurasia, as its success is in part due to his collaboration with leaders of China, Russia, South Korea and Japan.

As Helga Zepp LaRouche has repeatedly emphasized, the "win-win" approach of the New Paradigm, centered on China's New Silk Road policy, is unstoppable. Join us on Thursday, as she provides her unique analysis of what is required now, in the face of London's escalated war drive, to reap the benefits for mankind from a New Paradigm, based on economic cooperation on the greatest scale in human history.

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China's Grand Strategy - The New Silk Road - a vision to boost development along the ancient silk road connecting China and Europe. Watch CEIBS' David Gosset explaining why and how China's New Silk Road will reshape the world.