Belt and Road Initiative

CPC Charts Path To Achieve An Advanced Socialist Society By 2050

July 22, 2024 People's Dispatch. Create! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping, Socialism, Xi Jinping

The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held in Beijing from Monday July 15 to Thursday, July 18. It adopted a resolution listing a set of reforms with the objective of deepening the modernization process in the country in the path to complete building an advanced socialist market economy in China by the year 2035 and an advanced socialist society by 2050. Chinese President Xi Jinping who is also the general secretary of the CPC presided over the meeting attended by 199 members and 165 alternate members. Each elected Central Committee, the highest decision making body between two party Congresses, holds seven plenums or meetings during its five year term.

Belt And Road Initiative Introduces Key Tenets Of Chinese Philosophy To World

July 6, 2023 Martin Jacques, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Africa, Belt and Road Initiative, China, Diplomacy, Global South, Latin America, US Imperialism

When the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed 10 years ago, along with much anticipation, there was considerable puzzlement. “What is it?” was a widely asked question. And quite reasonably so, because it was like nothing we had seen before. This was no plan with fixed dates. There was nothing concrete. There were no boundaries. There was no end date. In every sense it was open-ended. It was an idea, a concept. It was a totally new and original way of thinking about a project. Furthermore, it was on the hugest of scales, encompassing the great majority of the world’s population.

China’s Historical Destiny Is To Stand With The Third World

March 31, 2023 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute For Social Research. Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Global South, Russia

On 20 March 2023, China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spent over four hours in private conversation. According to official statements after the meeting, the two leaders talked about the increasing economic and strategic partnership between China and Russia – including building the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline – and the Chinese peace initiative for the war in Ukraine. Putin said that ‘many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with Russian approaches and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when the West and Kiev are ready for it’.

Breaking The Cycle Of Underdevelopment In Latin America

February 17, 2022 Carlos Martinez, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, International Relations, Latin America

The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious fit for an undertaking that was originally modelled on the Silk Road – a network of trade routes linking East Asia with the Middle East, Africa and Europe – the reality is that the countries of South America, Central America and the Caribbean share many of the same needs as their counterparts in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Most Latin American countries won their formal independence from Spanish and Portuguese colonialism in the 19th century, but they found themselves in the shadow of an incipient North American imperialism.

China And Nicaragua To Collaborate On New Multipolar World

December 13, 2021 Kawsachun News. Create! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Nicaragua, Taiwan

China and Nicaragua have resumed diplomatic relations in what Nicaragua’s Presidential Advisor Laureano Ortega Murillo called “a historic date.” The Government of the Republic of Nicaragua announced it had broken diplomatic relations with Taiwan, ceasing to have any contact or official relationship, in a statement by Foreign Minister Denis Moncada before Nicaraguan diplomats and press, on Thursday and effective immediately. Kawsachun News attended the meeting virtually. Foreign Minister Moncada stated: “The Government of the Republic of Nicaragua declares that it recognizes that in the world there is only one single China. The People’s Republic of China is the only legitimate government that represents all of China and Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory.”

US Risks Reigniting Islamic Extremism In Xinjiang

May 1, 2021 Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong, Asia Times. Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Extremism, Xinjiang

“Kashgar is a key location for the land and sea interface of the Belt and Road, connecting not only westward to West Asia, Europe, the Red Sea and Africa, but also southward to the Indian Ocean through the port of Gwadar,” said Professor Li Bo of the China Research Institute, Fudan University. It is, he told us, “a core area of the Belt and Road strategy.” Kashgar, one of the westernmost cities in China, is the main urban area of southern Xinjiang. Traders from across Asia have assembled at its Sunday bazaar for 2,000 years. More than 1,000 kilometers north of Kashgar is the town of Nur-Sultan, previously known as Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Here, in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke about the need for a “Silk Road Economic Belt.

The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is A Myth

February 7, 2021 Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire, The Atlantic. Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Infrastructure, Loans

China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they can’t afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the end goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its struggling borrowers. As states around the world pile on debt to combat the coronavirus pandemic and bolster flagging economies, fears of such possible seizures have only amplified. Seen this way, China’s internationalization—as laid out in programs such as the Belt and Road Initiative—is not simply a pursuit of geopolitical influence but also, in some tellings, a weapon.

The East-Bound Wind Causes A Storm In The West

July 18, 2020 Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi, Counterpunch. Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Iran, US Empire

A few months after the publication of his remarkable book, Adam Smith in Beijing, I had an illuminating conversation with Giovanni Arrighi about the significance of China in world history. The late sociologist was interested in knowing more about the subject of my scholarship–modern Iran and the Iranian revolution. When he saw my puzzled face, he told me that he believes that all this apprehension in the west about Iran, is actually rooted in apprehension about China. Arrighi thought that if there were any “mainstream” of world history, it ought to be located in the story of China, the only civilization that has shaped the world as a hegemon over many millennia with the exception of the last 250 years.

Iran-China Pact Turbocharges The New Silk Roads

July 14, 2020 Pepe Escobar, Information Clearinghouse. Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Iran, US Sanctions

Two of the US’s top ‘strategic threats’ are getting closer and closer within the scope of the New Silk Roads — the leading 21st century project of economic integration across Eurasia. The Deep State will not be amused. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi blasted as ‘lies’ a series of rumours about the ‘transparent roadmap’ inbuilt in the evolving Iran-China strategic partnership. That was complemented by president Rouhani’s chief of staff, Mahmoud Vezi, who said that ‘a destructive line of propaganda has been initiated and directed from outside Iran against the expansion of Iran’s relations with neighbours and especially (with) China and Russia.’ Vezi added, ‘this roadmap in which a path is defined for expansion of relations between governments and the private sectors is signed and will continue to be signed between many countries.’

China rolls Out The Health Silk Road

April 4, 2020 Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. Create! Belt and Road Initiative, China, COVID-19, Health Care

When President Xi Jinping was on a phone call in mid-March with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conti, before the arrival of a China Eastern flight from Shanghai to Milan full of medical help, the key takeaway was the Chinese pledge to develop a Health Silk Road (Jiankang Sichou Zhilu). That was in fact already inbuilt in the Belt and Road Initiative playbook since at least 2017, under the framework of enhanced, pan-Eurasian health connectivity. The pandemic only accelerated the timeline. The Health Silk Road will run in parallel to the multiple overland Silk Road corridors and the Maritime Silk Road. In a graphic demonstration of soft power, so far China has offered Covid-19-related equipment and medical help to no fewer than 89 nations – and counting.

No Weapon Left Behind: The American Hybrid War On China

February 23, 2020 Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Great Power Conflict, Hybrid War

The New Silk Roads – or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – were launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, first in Central Asia (Nur-Sultan) and then Southeast Asia (Jakarta). One year later, the Chinese economy overtook the U.S. on a PPP basis. Inexorably, year after year since the start of the millennium, the U.S. share of the global economy shrinks while China’s increases. A vast array of nations across the Global South signed on to be part of BRI, which is planned for completion in 2049. Last year alone, Chinese companies signed contracts worth up to $128 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects in dozen of nations. The only economic competitor to the U.S. is busy reconnecting most of the world to a 21st century, fully networked version of a trade system that was at its peak for over a millennia: the Eurasian Silk Roads.

Iran, China And The Challenge To US Hegemony

January 26, 2020 By Qiao Collective. Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Iran, US Empire

In order to mount a serious challenge to American empire, the U.S. anti-war movement must understand the terms of engagement: economic terrorism through sanctions and political isolation and destabilization have become the primary modes of U.S. imperialism. Often obscured by overt acts of military violence, U.S. hybrid warfare waged against not only Iran but Venezuela, Bolivia, North Korea, and China is the primary contradiction facing the global struggle against imperialism. For too long, U.S. critics of American empire have evaded the derisively termed “China question” in favor of false equivalences and the repetition of U.S. state talking points. But behind the Cold War rhetoric, China has proven itself as a strategic ally for countless nations with which U.S. leftists claim solidarity.

China – The Belt And Road Initiative – The Bridge That Spans The World

November 27, 2019 Peter Koenig, Informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, New Economy

Today, in the western world we have lost this concept. The terms of trade are imposed always by the ‘stronger’ partner, the west versus the poorer south – the south where most of the natural resources are lodged. Mother Earth’s assets have been and are coveted by the west – or north – for building and maintaining a lifestyle in luxury, abundance and waste. This trend has lasted for centuries of western colonialism: Exploitation, loot, esclavisation and rape of entire peoples of the Global South by the Global North, to use the current soothing World Bank lingo.

U.S. Imperial Decline And The Belt And Road Initiative: The Most Important Global Struggle Of The Century

August 10, 2019 Danny Haiphong, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Russia, United States

The U.S. is once again mired in the political circus of the presidential election cycle. Corporate Democrats have aligned themselves firmly against the social democratic aspirations of the Sandernistas. The Republican Party has collapsed at the feet of chief arch-racist billionaire Donald Trump and will remain under his political thumb for as long as there is a White Man’s Party. A crisis off legitimacy has been set off by the economic condition of the U.S. imperial system where slow growth stagnation, austerity, and endless war reigns supreme.

China’s Belt And Road of Science

July 6, 2019 By Emanuel Pastreich, Foreign Policy In Focus Educate! Belt and Road Initiative, China, Science

Ultimately the issue for the United States will not be about emotional responses to what China says or does, but rather in its ability to stay on the frontiers of science, the wellspring of future technological development. The federal government is incapable of setting the pace during the dark ages of Trump. It is the decline of scientific thinking, rather than any particular technology, that has made the Trump administration’s policies possible. The citizens of the United States need to recognize the critical importance of science for the future of humanity and not be too proud to learn something from China.

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