China stitches up (SCO) Silk Rd

[Jefferson23]

September 13, 2013

While the whole world was terrified by the prospect of the Obama administration bombing Syria, Chinese President Xi Jinping was busy doing the Silk Road.

One has to love that famous Deng Xiaoping dictum; "Always maintain a low profile". This being the second-largest economy in the world, "low profile" always packs a mighty punch. Cue to September 7, in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital, when Xi officially proposed no less than a New Silk Road in co-production with Central Asia.

Xi's official "economic belt along the Silk Road" is a supremely ambitious, Chinese-fueled trans-Eurasian integration mega-project, from the Pacific to the Baltic Sea; a sort of mega free-trade zone. Xi's rationale seems to be unimpeachable; the belt is the home of "close to 3 billion people and represents the biggest market in the world with unparalleled potential".

Talk about a "wow" factor. But does that mean that China is taking over all of the Central Asian "stans"? It's not that simple.

in full: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-04-130913.html

[msongs]

1. meanwhile his american corporate lapdogs are readying the TPP to implement part of the strategy nt

[madrchsod]

2. a very interesting article....

[libdem4life]

3. An amazing article. Our ethnocentrism...exceptionality...whatever...may ultimately undo us.

"Observing all this frenzy, we have to come back to the ultimate adage of the times; while the (Washington) dogs of war bark, the (Chinese) caravan does deals."