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- China’s Belt and Road Initiative turns 10. Here’s what to know
This fall marks ten years since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative, the vast infrastructure project that China devised to boost trade and connectivity across Asia, Europe and Africa
- China’s $900 billion New Silk Road. What you need to know
What can the New Silk Road do for global trade? 5 things to know about the New Silk Road A new global superpower Some Western diplomats have been wary in their response to the proposed trade corridor, seeing it as a land grab designed to promote China's influence globally, but there’s little evidence to suggest the route will benefit China alone
- A brief history of globalization | World Economic Forum
But if the old Silk Road thrived on the exports of luxurious silk by camel and donkey, the new Alibaba Xi’an facility would be enabling a globalization of an entirely different kind It would double up as a big data college for its Alibaba Cloud services Technological progress, like globalization, is something you can’t run away from, it
- The challenges and opportunities of Chinas new Silk Road
The original Silk Road, established more than 2,000 years ago, was a critical network of trade routes that promoted economic, political, and cultural exchange among Asia, Africa, and Europe China’s new “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road” will do the same, with newly built or upgraded infrastructure facilitating the flow of trade, investment
- How China’s first ‘silk road’ slowly came to life - on the water . . .
Few images are more enduring in the historical imagination than the train of two-humped Bactrian camels plodding across desert sands from west to east, or vice-versa, across the vast open spaces of Eurasia Now that China is edging towards a modern incarnation of the “silk road” it is worth remembering how this emblem of the ancient world actually came into being
- What can the New Silk Road do for global trade?
The success of the New Silk Road depends as well on clear governance rules and mechanisms This includes the answer to the question of whether this project requires an independent organisation or can handle strategic decision-making and dispute resolution in a bilateral or multilateral way The incentive to get this right is huge
- Why the New Silk Road needs a digital revolution
With such systems in place, a few key areas of opportunity will emerge along the New Silk Road First, a digital revolution will level the playing field for SMEs For example, they’ll be able to adapt production plans to product supply and demand dynamics or identify new markets The sharing economy will also blossom
- Why is China building a New Silk Road? | World Economic Forum
China is reviving the historic Silk Road trade route that runs between its own borders and Europe Announced in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the idea is that two new trade corridors – one overland, the other by sea – will connect the country with its neighbours in the west: Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe
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