China’s New Silk Road: the Project of the Century
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Published 2023-06-24
What China has baptised ’The New Silk Road’ allows a pair of trainers to be transported by train from China to France in less than two weeks. But they also act as a vehicle for a wave of Chinese expansionism across the world.
In Gwadar, Pakistan, China is excavating a giant port, as well as a spectacular highway that crosses the Himalayas, in order to open the doors to the warm seas. At the limits of their Russian borders in central Asia, along a new railway line that serves Europe, Chinese entrepreneurs have installed special economic zones and casinos in the middle of the desert. Further afield than Beijing, in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, the Chinese state has recently established a military port, a stone’s throw from the American and French bases, as well as building an ultra modern railway serving Ethiopia. In the wake of these movements, Chinese businesses are swooping down on east African markets, hoping to make the region one of the new workshops of the world.
Director: Elvire Berahya Lazarus
All Comments (21)
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Come on. If they do the work, you complain they are taking away all the jobs and if they let you do the job, you complain they stand their giving orders. It's a crazy world. No matter what you do, someone will hate you.
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The Chinese come as investors. The local govt is the one that finds the land for the factories. Not the other way around. This documentary seems to want to portray the chinese as having oppressed the farmers.
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It's seems to me that this is a UK documentary about China and all about the bad things China is doing currently, it's quite subjective to say the least. We blame the Chinese for what Europe and the US have done themselves for decades. Haven't we Europeans exploited African for centuries? And about England, take a mirror and look in it, millions of English people can't pay there bills anymore, they live in harsh conditions. Young English people who cannot afford to buy a house anymore. Same in the US, where a lot of people have to take on 2 or 3 jobs, just to survive...no that's paradise. Please take off your subjective glasses and don't blame China for everything. Maybe it's a bit difficult for us Europeans and Americans to accept, but Asia is going to dominate the century to come, whether we like it or not.
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So if it work in their favour nothing is wrong with that, the Chinese work really hard to improve the lives of their people and their economy.
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CHINESE ARE HARD WORKING & WELL MANNERED GOOD PEOPLE.
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I HAVE MET CHINESE,I HAV HIGHVRESPRECT THEYR HARD WORKING HUMBLE
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Belt and Road Initiative is a 100 year long term project
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These ladies that have been trained well in this textile industries.. they can learn and become experts and start training other Djiboutians and expand this industry within.. emplying people and also exporting their line of clothing. A huge opportunity to learn the skill and fly. Mann Africa, help yourselves bana.
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Most of those Chinese supervisors were factory workers themselves not that long ago. They are most probably from rural areas in China and went to the cities to work. They have a lot of courage leaving by themselves to go to Africa and not exactly to live luxurious lives.
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Fair but has standard anti China tilt mixed in 🥺
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I saw a more extreme point of view in this film. The local people must maintain a primitive and poor life to be the best. Those farmers whose interests have been damaged are indeed poor, but the income of those workers working in factories is not mentioned. , Those women can just stay at home or do some farm work. The railways and roads built in China have enabled many people to do business. These benefits are not mentioned, but completely negative reports, which is very interesting.
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It is ironic that they plaster "propaganda video" watermark on the Pakistani terrorist group's video. Yet this whole video does not have the same watermark. Can you be any more slanted in this so called "documentary"? If you really want to be just, dial the time back to 18th and 19th century, do a comparison between how European and US treat Africa, MiddleEast, South America vs what Chinese are doing. I dare you.
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Chinese even he's from village and as a farmers he's can send he's son syudy to U.S, That's is incredible.
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China is working on One Belt One Road . US is working on One Bomb One Road .
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Why are the Djiboutians complaining the chinese don't work...pathetic. if you cannot build the whole thing yourselves please don't complain. He who is got the cash and knowledge is boss.
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In any place of the world, you can always find someone full of complain. But you will always choose to believe them, even the terrorists. No matter what the Chinese did, they are always wrong. That's your key point, am I right? The Chinese came to invest: wrong. France did nothing, what a great nation! Shame on you!
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New Silk Road consists of old and new routes. Old Silk road was sabotaged by empires along the route. Soviet era even blocked movements of goods. As a result, landlocked countries suffered. New Silk Road enabled landlocked countries to be landlinked. Also like ancient Silk Road, it's not a one way route. Benefiting countries along the route.
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Narrator is biased and sounds ignorant and angry though the video is probably not completely related as the footage is very good but insider footage not outsider footage.
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Changes... Hope.... for a better future. I think this is what many "reporters/journalist" just completely can not see. Blind to it.... China's today is due to its sacrifices yesterday. Not sure if this is inherently a Chinese thing (probably Asian thing), but they sacrifice the changes today, hoping for a better tomorrow.
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Western portrayals of the Silk Road cannot resist the opportunity to find any negative aspect. All modernization project have winners and losers. Training local people to the high standards demanded by China takes time. Would the west prefer the local people of Africa or Pakistan to remain uneducated, under-developed and poor for eternity? The security at Gwadar is understandable as the terrorism is real and should be pointed out that the Baluchi terrorists are armed and funded by the United States via several NGOs the primary one, NED, an offshoot of the CIA. (the evidence is in their own website). Part of the US plan of destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan and disruption of China's progress. Eventually the countries and their people will benefit unlike the hundreds of years of colonial rule and wars brought by the west and US.
