Martin Jacques Talk on Belt and Road: Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend 2018

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Martin Jacques Talk on Belt and Road: Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend 2018
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Martin Jacques delivered the talk below at the Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend in March 2018. The talk was on how China’s Belt & Road Initiative will change the world.

In March 2018, the Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend welcomed some of the brightest and most interesting minds from the UAE and around the world to discuss four of the most important moonshot challenges facing our planet. The event was inspired by the world-famous Aspen Ideas Festival that has been taking place in Colorado since 2005, as a place for scientists, artists, politicians, business leaders, historians and educators to discuss some of the most fascinating ideas of our time. The 2018 Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend topics included: “Polarisation: Bridging the gaps”, “Cancer: An end in sight?”, “Artificial Intelligence: Our super-intelligent friend?” and “The Modern Silk Road: A new era of globalisation”.

In conversation with Martin Jacques is Julian Gewirtz, a Fellow in History and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONmF...
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李存勖
李存勖
3 months ago
This is something bring human race to a better future.

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elaineg60
elaineg60
3 months ago
Thank you for posting these new videos Martin!  You and Kishore Mahbubani have been instrumental in our understanding of Modern China and our Western media and politicos purposely warped narrative of the country.  China isn’t perfect; no country is.  But at least they are successfully progressing into the future, unlike my country which has been peddling backwards for almost 4 years.  I must admit that I fear the future though; especially now with the spurious accusations, endless conspiracy theories no longer just on “the fringe”, extreme divisions in the US and an unprecedented and dangerous vacuum of leadership.  Personally, I’m exhausted, and depressed, as are millions of Americans;  of waking up to a new self-created crisis out of Washington every day.  As China showed unity, National policy, leadership, and respect and compassion, to deal with this pandemic;  the US worsened its own internal epidemics of arrogance, ignorance, hypocrisy and greed, exponentially.  Unfortunately, the premier tactic this administration has taken in order to try and cover for its corruption and incompetence; is distraction.  And while Trump’s most frequent “distraction”, China, seems to be on hiatus as he obsesses over his diving poll numbers, still growing unemployment and unstable markets;  I’m sure certain members of his administration, particularly, the Dominionist, Sec of State, (who has said that a regime change in China is the only way to “save the world”. If you are unfamiliar with Dominionists, an apocalyptic cult led and funded by some of the wealthiest elites in the world, who claim that God has given white American “christian” men dominion over “the 7-Mountains” of media, religion, politics, education, culture, business and science. Their self-proclaimed “prophets” like Pompeo and Pence, take personal umbrage with China due to China wisely deporting and banning them after they attempted to “save” the Chinese people, preaching that the Govt is evil and President Xi is the equivalent of Satan) , Mike Pompeo who will be thrilled to bring up China as their returning champion of distractions.  After all, if nothing else, they need to make their military industrial complex donors happy. ❤️🇨🇳☮️

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americunts
americunts
3 months ago
The magnitude of this project is beyond what simple Americans can comprehend.

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Rena Wong
Rena Wong
3 months ago
Let's just hope US won't bomb the roads we build.

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yingliang nie
yingliang nie
5 days ago
China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our land. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. But Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French, with supports from the US and Russia from behind, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance(Japan, Russia, Britain, France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous “black-cat and white-cat” story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense anti-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per muslim than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur extremists before they turned terrorists. 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do bad and dirty things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low dirty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not buy looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck @t from NZ

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Aron PC
Aron PC
3 months ago
World connectedness or globalization is what has been happening since thousands of years ago. Do we get connected by force or in peace? This is our question to answer, our responsibility to shoulder.

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Top 20s
Top 20s
3 months ago
It will never succeeded like the “3B” railway plan faced, if the aim set too high and jealous guys ready to bomb. But it will work if this kind of developing theory really improved the infrastructure of those countries. In a words: US bombs, we builds.

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David vs Goliath
David vs Goliath
3 months ago
By right cooperation between US-China should have brought the world Economy to the next level but sad to say that US has chosen to keep the world under her feet and make them her "lackeys" as long as possible.
It would be great if both could come together to contribute what their are best at... China (Infrastructure) US (Network/Relationship)

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Felipe Silva Moldes
Felipe Silva Moldes
3 months ago
Can't believe that you waited 2 years to post this

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Johney Smith
Johney Smith
3 months ago
Thank you for uploading.  Anything updating?

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Foobar
Foobar
3 months ago
Lectures from scholars should be more mainstream

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Naththandige dilantha nishad fernando
Naththandige dilantha nishad fernando
3 months ago
Thanks

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Al Loomis
Al Loomis
3 months ago
let's hope things go to plan. war and climate catastrophe may be the primary factors, and will then make bri just another bright hope.
but there is no point in planning for disaster, so let's ask world leaders to give us a future.

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fragrantlily X
fragrantlily X
3 months ago
At a global level, the #beltRoad Initiative (#BRI) spans around 140 countries, including China, involving two thirds of the world’s population[2]. Specifically, this amounts to 61.5% of the Caribbean, 66.7% of South America, 42.6% of Central America, 100% of the Middle East, 97% of Asia (excluding the Middle East), 57.1% of Oceania,72.7% of Africa, 56.8% of Europe
https://developmentreimagined.com/2019/09/26/countries-along-the-belt-and-road-what-does-it-all-mean/

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Hui Zheng
Hui Zheng
3 months ago
建议加上中文字幕，有利于传播

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questworldmatrix
questworldmatrix
1 week ago
China has been shown to forgive debt and not put a squeeze on trading partners. Unlike student loans in the US where you could have paid more than you've borrowed yet still owe the principal plus interest.