China - the Belt and Road Initiative, History and relevance to Humanity today - with Matt Ehret
Vanessa Beeley- In this conversation Matt Ehret clarifies the relevance of China's Ancient Silk Road to the modern day geopolitical power games that are playing out globally.
“One of the most consequential landmarks in Chinese-Arab relations is the ‘Arab Policy Paper’ released by China in 2016. The paper emphasised historic cooperation, peaceful relations and the openness of each civilisation towards the other. [..] noticeably it encouraged China and the Arabs to work together on ‘building a new type of international relations’ that would safeguard state sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.”
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