Richard Werner
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4,694 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 22 May
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So China has spent billions on building really shiny new roads and highways and bridges and railway connections, transport, ports, massive investments in ports.
And of course, you know, all these receiver countries have been to some.
They're very proud of this and they look really impressive projects, modern and helping the country.
And the countries can use this for their own economic development.
Excuse me.
And so it's been attractive and many countries have joined.
Although, of course, also countermeasures have been started and some countries were put under pressure to drop out again.
It wasn't popular when Italy wanted to sign up or Hungary wanted to sign up with this and they were put under pressure by the EU and US parties as well.
But it's been quite successful.
And so, of course, a key strategic partner has always been Iran as an oil supplier to China.
And we can tell that the war in Iran is part of this countermeasure that's really in operation against China.
Because in these bombing campaigns against Iran, what was also bombed were belt and road infrastructure projects, bridges, railway connections, and other parts of this supply structure.
And so, you know, why would America do that?
Well, it is to get in the way of the modern Berlin-Baghdad railway.
It goes up through Central Asia?
Yes, of course.
The modern Silk Road, there's many Silk Roads, of course.
There's one via Russia, further north and further south, several.
And it's the similar viewpoint.
I mean, there's actually a British theoretician, Mackinder, who talked about this heartland theory that whoever controls Eurasia controls the world.
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