According to Eyck Freymann, author of ‘One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World,’ the BRI is evolving to place less emphasis on traditional heavy infrastructure, and more on high-tech cooperation and digital services.RT
He told Nikkei Asia that "Beijing wants to dominate the physical infrastructure underlying global communications, particularly the internet,” adding: "This will give it an advantage in internationalizing its tech sector and pursuing future tech-related deals with partner countries."...
China building digital Silk Road stretching from Asia through Africa to Europe
See also at RT
The Belt and Road Initiative is the biggest infrastructure development project in history. It links the continental transport routes of Eurasia with maritime infrastructure in south and southeast Asia, Africa and beyond. The aim is to invest $4 trillion to $8 trillion. BRI puts a strong focus on developing economies and regions. So far around half of the investments went to states that Western rating agencies consider high risk and which have no prospect of receiving serious investments from the EU or the US. And if there is Western involvement, then it's often based on a form of neocolonial exploitation or quick profit and depletion of resources. It is therefore understandable that these countries are very open for new parties with a different approach, especially in regions like eastern Africa....Artur Leier, scientific employee, with a focus on foreign policy, in the German parliament and executive director of German media platform Weltnetz.TV
Also
China advancing win-win in development versus the Washington Consensus pushing neoliberalism, neo-imperialism, and neocolonialism.
Xi is a proponent of globalization, just not on the terms that the West had assumed and were confident in. It’s the question of ‘globalization on whose terms’ that has ignited the so-called Second Cold War...
Western belief that globalization can only move in tandem with ITS ideology is at the core of current confrontation with China
Tom Fowdy, British writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia
Tom Fowdy, British writer and analyst of politics and international relations with a primary focus on East Asia
See also
Already is.
The United States is more likely to face a British Empire-style decline than a Soviet-style collapse, Yan Xuetong, the professor and dean of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing’s Tsinghua University who’s regularly described as one of the most influential Chinese political scientists, predicts.Sputnik International
“In the course of historical development, all empires fall into decay, and the same will take place in the coming millennia,” Yan said, speaking to Der Spiegel.
“Great empires experience three stages: prosperity, stagnation and decline. The decline of the United States does not shock or surprise me. The question is in how it will take place. For many years, the United Kingdom was the most powerful nation in the world; its decline was long and lasted for several decades. The Soviet Union shattered like a glass that fell on the floor. I believe the decline of the United States is more likely to follow the British scenario,” the academic said....
The Belt & Road initiative is another environmental disaster in the making.
ReplyDelete