President Xi Jinping will host 28 world leaders and representatives from another 70 countries to sell his hugely ambitious signature project.
The plan is to build a vast network of new trade routes across the globe, multiple high-speed rail networks to penetrate Europe, massive ports across Asia and Africa and a series of free-trade zones.
China is going to spend up to a trillion dollars on infrastructure projects and hopes to bind more than 65 countries and two thirds of the world's population to its economy.
Economists have likened the project to a modern day Marshall Plan — which helped secure the US as the world's superpower after World War II — but it's much bigger.
China's aim is to lift trade by $2.5 trillion in a decade by flooding world markets with cheap, high-quality Chinese goods.
Opinions on a China led world order / Marshall Plan versus an American one.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-14/china-plans-new-silk-road-to-dominate-world-trade/8522682Well, good luck America, you could soon find yourself isolated. After all, those rails tracks from China would be reaching all the way into Europe.
Eventually, nations such as Pakistan and Tajikistan will become vassal nations of China.
Ignoring the fact that these are Muslim countries, they should really be looking forward to this day. Will be interesting to see the Chinese try to incorporate them into their country/union considering even they don't seem to be able to deal with their Muslim minority - the Uyghurs.
Maybe that's why they're trying to make these countries eventually reliant on them. The more countries in Central Asia that are allied with them, the lesser the likelihood any of those would help separatist movements in Xinjiang. The only thing they'll have to worry would be Tibet. Although Tibetans don't have the network Muslims have, India is an avid supporter, hosting the Dalai Lama.
Apparently, China find this problematic enough that they're forcing the Dalai Lama to reincarnate when he said he wouldn't, lmao.
