Asif Aziz — A Pound of Flesh: Why is India Trying to Sabotage the Silk Road Initiative?

29 countries attended, including delegates from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations; even the US. However India, the OBOR Initiative’s second-largest investor, boycotted the event.

His absence was a mum protest against People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping’s shrewd decision to deepen ties with Pakistani President Nawaz Sharif on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC); a vital trade route into the Middle East for the OBOR.

More geopolitics and geostrategy around the New Silk Road initiative (OBOR — One Belt One Road).

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A Pound of Flesh: Why is India Trying to Sabotage the Silk Road Initiative?

Asif Aziz

Asia Unhedged — First UK to China freight train sets off

The journey will take half the time of shipping by boat.

Historic moment. Britain kicks off One Belt One Road.

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First UK to China freight train sets off
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Asia Unhedged — Blackwater’s Eric Prince to open bases in China

US private military company Frontier Services Group (FSG) is planning operations in China’s Xinjiang Province that will support the One Belt, One Road initiative, Chinese state media reported Wednesday.

FSG’s chairman, Eric Prince, is better known as the founder of the Blackwater military company, which played a large role in the US-Iraqi war. Prince told China’s Global Times that “FSG has expanded its geographic focus from purely Africa to include the Northwest corridors of the One Belt and One Road initiative.”

Seemingly at odds with plans to provide military services in China, Prince has close ties to the White House. His sister is a member of the president’s cabinet, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and he was a frequent radio guest of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s Breitbart....

Asia Times

Blackwater’s Eric Prince to open bases in China

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Pepe Escobar — The Ultimate 21st Century Choice; OBOR or War

Mostly about China and Chinese economic expansion globally, which the US regards as a threat to US global hegemony. China rollin'. The major growth in the coming decades will be in the emerging world rather than the developed world, where growth has peaked.

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The Ultimate 21st Century Choice; OBOR or War
Pepe Escobar

See also by Pepe Escobar at  RT and Counterpunch.

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Andrew Korybko’s Interview With China’s Dr. Pang Zhongying

Regular contributor to The Saker, Andrew Korybko, is presenting us with additional correspondence from his recent China trip . He had the opportunity to conduct a prolonged interview with Dr. Pang Zhongying, one of the country’s premier international relations experts, alongside his colleague from TASS, Ksenia Petrova. The following is a transcript of their conversation, with minor grammatical changes made to the text to make it more understandable. This is the first time that the contents of the interview are being published in full.

Geopolitics and geopolitical economy.

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Andrew Korybko’s Interview With China’s Dr. Pang Zhongying