Richard Werner
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2,289 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 May
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I mean, there have been American colonies, whether Philippines or other places, and it's adopted the key policies and policy tools from Britain.
So which country is the new Germany that is a rival to America?
Well, it's China.
And China has been working on ensuring its supply of raw material inputs.
in the last, particularly the last 15 years.
So in many ways, it's a sort of new strategy, but it is very much the same situation as Germany was in it.
It didn't want to be beholden to shipping under British control, could be blackmailed.
Of course, America is dominating the seas
And China doesn't want to be beholden to America.
And that includes, of course, the Strait of Hormuz.
It also includes the Strait of Malacca, where even more Chinese trade goes through.
That's another of these potential choke points, as they call it, where they can choke China.
So China has been working on alternative routes.
What is the modern Berlin-Baghdad railway?
Well, it is the Belt and Road Initiative.
which is the Chinese president Xi Jinping's really landmark milestone foreign policy initiative started 11 years ago.
On the one hand, it offers an interesting alternative to participating countries, many developing countries, to the IMF World Bank system that I hope we have time to discuss because that system has been designed to keep developing countries
from developing to prevent development and to keep them poor but effective cheap exporters of raw materials according to the British colonial model.
So it's like the modern version of the colonial British Empire is this American dominated IMF World Bank rule and the Belt and Road Initiative on the one hand is an
is an alternative that can be offered to countries and many countries including in africa have joined this for this reason you describe what it is for people who don't know yes about belton road yes so um there's actually many different names for this uh at one stage was called the the one belt initiative then belt and road initiative uh sometimes called the silk the modern silk road the new silk road it is about
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