Russian sphere of influence. And of the near food end and she jinping regularly affirmed their geo Strategic Alliance but this new chinese project could have a massive impact on the relationship between the two countries and in the long term it could do the same to the Power Balance in the whole of eurasia. If in the past the silk road was called the axis of the world if you control that road you control the world. A change president xi jinping has emphasized the great significance so chong ching for global and Asian Pacific logistics chongqing is to become a hub for inland logistics that will be open to the outside to. A phone call. Chunk shing has a clear directive to turn away from the sea and look west. Thats also symbolized by kilometers erode which marks the starting point of the new silk road. In order to supply this new route to the west with goods the city has built Logistics Facilities to replace the container ports on the coast. At this Central Freight Terminal we send around a thousand can tell us every day two of the chinese provinces and two other countries. Were responsible for the safety of these operations and their mom made him on average a week three or four trains leaf a deuce in germany. Carrying around forty one can say. The for us sounds on. The electronic goods loaded on to the trains here arrive in germany after just twelve days instead of traveling eight weeks by sea. However transporting goods by rail costs twice as much Two Hundred And Fifty trains like this one are necessary to carry the same volume as a single container ship. At the moment this train to germany has more of a symbolic significance but its a simple thats important to a china thats looking west not least to put a convincing case for xi jinping this project to both the domestic audience and chinas Economic Partners with european eldorado as its end point the new silk road that travels through china for more than Two Thousand Five Hundred kilometers will also help develop the countrys infrastructure or so its hoped. This new Transport Route that combines road and rail will connect and boost regions in Western China beyond long joe. Will. Wild west of huge expansion and one that was left behind by the Economic Reforms of the past twenty years. The City Of London joel is the gateway to chinas Wide Open West here the new silk road is taking on the characteristics of a marshall plan. The new oversized neighborhoods empty as yet suggest affluence. Between the Life Size Replicas of the sphinx and the parthenon the governments propaganda is regurgitated by all. A nice little journal the new silk road will fuel the Economy Culture and gus trami The City Of La as you will become more attractive as will be improvements of a dam soon will and the little of the last one sit on the new silk road is a collective and therefore a political project thats very promising was a knock on the ball in light of the stagnating Economic Growth that official figures say its seven percent but in reality its four percent the Chinese Government needs a new impulse to prove that its in control of this major project for. The worlds second largest economy china is in reality a colossus with feet of clay and threatened by uncontrolled social developments. Only an economic Success Story benefiting the entire country can keep it together. But this growth is based on the export of products that are made in china and these seriously decline since the Global Economic squeeze china has to change its economic model and that means it has to develop its. Mastic market last it has to invest in the infrastructure needed to promote the exchange of goods in just ten years china has built Eighty Thousand kilometers of highway. The rural road network in the east is impressive but to open up the market to the west there is just one possible route between the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau and the gobi desert. Thats exactly where the new silk road runs. Its a unique transport link and indispensable when it comes to connecting the province of shinji ung which means new border to the rest of the country in the arid Semi Desert Expanses of Western China beijing and the Central Government were always very far away. But today the new silk road is creating change its altering the concept of time and ultimately it will change the lives of the people here. Go that route they come from all over the country from sheen john chait john shanghai. Beijing and even from the northeast were in a favorable transport location which is good for business in every regard. Was just ten years ago we were still in our home village but we moved to the city to make money when the Economic Reforms came. From the streets in living in a sign it is undergoing a radical shift particularly in the west of the country and inching jang all these cities being built in the desert are cities with skies great bows at the u. S. They are moving. And theres a lot of activity everywhere. Lights and even music and color okey vos images that are war teeth of it that i look at theres the x. Ray its a message to the chinese population it is to attract people to these remote areas that there was the privileged and so offensive. To make it possible for people to move to the remote province of shame jiang or to trade their beijing has extended its High Speed Train along the entire new highway. The travel time for the two thousand kilometers between lunch show and the room she is now at just ten hours down from forty. Five thats. The faster the better. Chance of. China now possesses the largest High Speed Rail Network in the world with a length of Twenty Thousand kilometers Three Hundred Billion Dollars was invested in ten years that corresponds to almost the entire annual budget of a country like france. The root of the new silk road is among the newest its been in operation since Two Thousand And Fourteen. The high speed route to sheens young swallowed a lot of money and itll never be Cost Effective but for beijing the benefit lies elsewhere firstly its political because this route really affirms the desire to connect shane jiang more closely to the rest of the country. And it also sends a message to neighboring states because china sees itself as of the builder of an International High Speed Network to run from Russia To Central Asia and iran. The Route Currently Ns at the cutting edge Railway Station in odum cheek the provincial capital the station has very strict Security Measures in place. But. Thats because she is not a conventional chinese province there are frequent tensions between the leaders the local Muslim Minority and the han chinese who make up the vast majority of the population in the rest of the country. Attacks violent riots and economic and religious imbalances in the region combines all the ingredients for a highly explosive Cocktail Police roadblocks and military checkpoints secure the new silk road here with strict controls. Moscow. Beijing believes the two cornerstones of peace and change young are domestic security and massive Growth Without peace this province cannot become a springboard for chinese interests in central asia. With the support of the government the plan is for room she to become a Regional Center every two years a large trade fair is held to promote the new silk road. The stands are all tailored to attracting visitors from neighboring countries and all dutifully recite the official text to sell the chinese dream. Action such as this model shows what our Economic Zones will look like when the project is complete. Since. This is how it will be done its our goal to get businesses from the five countries of central asia that surround us to come here at the start of the year we presented our project in russia and kazakhstan Many Companies signal their interest in our Free Trade Zone it was easy because each year. Modern machine jiang is having positive effects on the development along the new Silk Road Beijing wants to exploit this to prove its competence and experience in building up the infrastructure Economic Zones and the Important Energy sector. To do that Big Chinese Companies are needed such as gold wind the number one when it comes to wind energy gold wind is run by will guns. And there will missions that voice will in the end Up On Chang Wind Farm inching jiang its One Of The Best wind farms in the world its twenty to thirty kilometers wide and eighty kilometers long i should say the special thing about this place is its constant wind speeds feed. Its ideal for a wind farm five year issues of for me if i didnt see a reason that. The success of gold wind is a classic example of the chinese economic miracle. Is a pioneer who built his first Wind Turbines thirty years ago he bought a German Company which resulted in a cleverly negotiated transfer of Technology Today gold wind is the biggest maker of Wind Turbines in the world. At a time when the Energy Market is in a state of completely unprecedented transition his business is perfectly placed. Sutra many sources of Renewable Energies along the entire new Silk Road Concession in kazakhstan or pakistan or even turkey which will be on the board a hospice a time. Theres wind and solar energy everywhere it was out how the tail on the phone and thats the ensure fatal to. The real theory or yeah developing wind energy further costs a lot of money the chinese plan on a completely different scale weve seen that with their solar panels everythings big. They have a real Strategic Vision were lacking that and youre at. Once things clear long term strategies are easier to implement if youre an authoritarian stable government. The new silk road follows in the long tradition of a planned economy pursued by chinas communist party. Always alcohol at first glance the politics beyond the new silk road of the mock up she didnt pay heed that it strengthens his power and his reputation in the budget in the long term it stands for it changing china is just what you see debates about those have been going on in economic circles since Two Thousand And Eleven she should say you are in this project will have consequences from far into the future and implementing it will take decades so yes this doesnt just affect she jinping when it affects your successes too much yet the machine hears you me now and i just know that she and. Her its another five hundred kilometers from the room she to the cars a border. The border town of quarter goss is situated at the end of the highway. Goss has an old custom station and riders who arent fazed by anything. But china wants to give its new image a visual representation in the form of a huge arch under which the new silk road will soon run. Beyond this Triumphal Arch is kazakhstan thats where the International Dimension of the chinese project begins. Here the new silk. Road is still a Construction Site but just three years after she jingping this proclamation the continuation of the chinese road is easy to imagine he Sham Belmarsh she is one of the main players in this ongoing project hes a frenchman of moroccan origin and an employee of d. P. World a group of Companies Based in dubai and one of the worlds leading Logistics Organizations die on what china is behind me almaty in kazakhstan is in front of me i might see to the left of me is kyrgyzstan and beyond it was becky stan i have russia to my right called guss at the center between all of these countries this is where everything is happening. So ill just. And he shunned belmarsh she works for the cause a government which is hoping to get a lot out of the new silk road. Its a road that could turn this middle of nowhere into an outpost of globalization. Zero and on the often if theres any place that symbolizes the meeting of east and west its this one. That is all the while the chinese tracks and the behind me at. The kazakhs tracks start to my left back them up dont differ you see from here you can get to Beijing Shanghai Eon young gung and ningbo and from here you can get to see a stana russia and europe. In quarter goes the chinese containers are loaded onto cars a Freight Trains which run on a narrower gauge the russian gauge a leftover of the soviet era from here the goods can reach anywhere in central asia home to a number of countries the size of europe with a population of just Seventy Million kazakhstan is the big. Just among them. Phobia could offset is it enough we mustnt forget that the border between the former soviet union and china ran along here for a very long time there was almost no contact between the two countries if the border was closed thanks to the new infrastructure a lot of passengers and goods will come through here on it on the way to tolles it because golf is the starting point for a revival of the silk road wanted it to settle in its all that all of the us for. The new silk road still under construction in kazakhstan once complete it will cross the entire country over a distance of Two Thousand Four Hundred kilometers the Construction Work is largely being paid for with loans issued by the world bank but also by china itself via its new silk road fund. Thats a State Fund Running to more than Forty Billion dollars this new strategy has allowed china to enter the exclusive club of major creditor nations. Until the new silk road opens and china arrives the cosmic steps still live in the old world a world that dates back to soviet times a world that has been governed by president not out of by with an iron fist for the past twenty five years he recently called the new silk road the project of a century. Nothing has changed here since the fall of the soviet union especially not the old rural road connecting court of course with the rest of the country. Yes i was heels of i have goods from china im heading to almaty ive been traveling since yesterday so now i have a flat tire i normally have to complete this stretch in a day. The chinese side is much better if i thought. Just very much the road is very good its well maintained there are no potholes why who knows it will improve here too. Also birth of my. News of the imminent opening of the highway is spreading slowly in the step. But for some the new silk road is likely to be bad news. For years dude but its most lorries that stop here have come through russia or europe we clean them before they head into china it appears it seems i can hear that were doing a good thing for people there are not many coal washes here. Most of the q. More of course in mali when the highway is open in the Old Country Road will probably be closed there wont be a single vehicle coming through here that i think i will be here another two or three years after that no cars will come through here it will be dead quiet first. Of. All this is seen with mixed feelings in the villages through which the old road runs theyre hoping for a Better Future and are dubious about what will happen next. Im sure its not our president as a biased signed this contract with china theres already a functioning train a Freight Train that goes to it was just one look at that it would come out of that would it transports Raw Materials cars and all kinds of things to many other countries which just lastly just what are the few that fits all thats already possible with. Human which is it will go through. The inhabitants of the small towns near the chinese border are generally happy with whats happening right now theyre not stupid they think of the business side of things and the immediate advantages i use which is what are they really thinking of the future of this with instead of this theyre going about their business but theyre not pursuing a lie. Long term strategy. Of will appear. Behind the new silk road that leads to kazakhstans economic capital. Behind the trains that run through the steps china is pursuing a strategy. The opening of a new export route to absorb any excess Industrial Production but the main goal is to intensify chinas economic and political influence all across central asia a region that historically has looked towards russia. In the new forward till you can have made their logic of the generous roads that. The railway lines. For us for all the new Transport Options are an advantage to those located on this line in kazakhstan and elsewhere in central asia in this case theres a to leave a note central nevertheless its largely a chinese project thats aiming to solve chinas problems that could take a guess the vishay three for chinas constantly trying to find new space for its population. To tell us their years of course russia has a lot of empty land but russia is still strong central asia is weaker its the weakest link in the chain. As so often chinas population figures are a cause for concern the fear of the yellow peril is always there below the surface a region with such a low Population Density like kazakhstan is always very interesting for china not least since its very rich in Oil Agricultural land them or oil are two resources that are absolutely vital for chinas growth the new silk road which goes right across kazakhstan in a northwesterly direction runs right past the big oil fields as zone of the greatest strategic significance to russia. But these days china is gaining in power thanks to its State Run Oil Company c n. P. C. Its pipeline now transports twenty Million Tonnes of cars to the chinese province of sheen john every year theres just one up immediately go to within central asia the west is the most important region at the access to the west has to be secured for that because thats where the huge Energy Source is lightish i mean that if he. Pulls off each china wants to go beyond i mean exploitation of resources by acting and thats why. Has offered an economic and Political Partnership to kazakstan with the concept of the new silk road Alcatraz Economist Bush will call for to. So the new silk road is also an oil road for china in Return Beijing is building the infrastructure necessary for kazakhstans development. It. Is. But in the village of camp and there the oil fields of the Chinese Oil Company the promise of affluence made by president nazarbayev has already been moved back to twenty fifty. Clearly not much of the money for the new silk road gets as far as the small towns in the steps. Thats one of the other theres money here but nobody will give us work. The old goes there its not easy for us in the village theyre not doing anything for us cane told him not among us and all you can see the state of the road over there is the chinese dont employ anyone from here they employ other people how can we be satisfied with that and as im as an investor i dont manage to. End up today the regional capital the headquarters of the Chinese Oil Company occupy the most impressive building in town. The style of the building marks a break with the typical restraint displayed by chinese investors. Seem to be circular in s. C. N. P. C. Came here they brought in workers from china in the quarter they should have had quotas to follow up because of corruption and wangling more and more Chinese Workers came here would it would appear there are a few and fewer catholic workers for worse in the oil sector it plus was a question of cost as they have the same problem in russia used in the. Usa does lots of the newer jokes on television already that you find more chinese than russians in russias far east as ascii needs but the more yeah. I think if they come here theyll stay and settle on a new boot. Kazakstan is responding very negatively but so do several other countries in central asia on the one hand these countries want investors in the other they have their own economic interests they dont want foreigners to own great to shares in their companies then they do powerful use we have to create a win win situation that countries invest in and that allows the population to participate financially too involved on the whole you. In Two Thousand And Sixteen a law on the sale of Agricultural Land triggered anti chinese demonstrations of first in a country in which every kind of Protest Gathering is forbidden following the demonstrations to tell you off was arrested because he filmed the event and disseminated the footage. You know you think i said well see it was here you may decide if this is you because you can not tell there was. Nothing in the facilities that someone will have. The balls to call it serious loss of our resources can be sold our people know this but turn a Blind Eye Kazakhs a patient they say never mind lets wait theres no war at least we have food this attitude will be our ruin. So we just be deal with humans we understand everything is being sold but we also see that this money is going into the pockets of a few people at the top of our limit is reached when they take our land because it people will never permit their land to be sold symbol though i thought of it and then you possible. The chinese expansionism that banks on the win win conditions is threatening to fail as a result of domestic corruption something that undermines a country like kazakhstan. In the parks of iraq to buy the only sign of Public Investment in the town many seem to have accepted that theyre just pawns in a great game. They are the backbone of that you can say the chinese are conquering our country because we live in peace theyve been getting oil from a since the late nineties been divided we have enough oil it was not an help themselves but it was the problem. Is not just the chinese who are here. We have french American British german and italian people here too if the whole world. Is to fit. In them what you see as expansion depends on the context if youre referring to the globalization of investment and Economic Exchange different then globalization is undoubtedly acceptable and pulls but if you take it to mean domination or he gammon e r one it isnt that it doesnt fit chinas culture much full on the lyceum little video. In Two Thousand And Fourteen kazakhstan became a member of the year Asian Economic Union the Free Trade Zone desired by moscow on the other hand of the chinese have invested twice as much in kazakhstan since that date. To bear has become a new outpost for this chinese presence just a hundred kilometers from russia and the Border Station of jaison. At the moment russias still thrilled by the chinese project of the new silk road because its in line with its own eurasian ambitions. Russias Advertising Spots also promise affluence and cutting edge infrastructure. But the reality reveals that moscow simply isnt capable of keeping up with this rhythm as soon as the lorries from china or central asia reach russia they follow a zig zag course in order to avoid the huge post soviet potholes. Built them catherine noble. With that rugged advances in central asia china is demonstrating its strength to russia that lessens the russian influence in the region because of the chinese have used the opening up to capitalism and growth to build Firm Foundations with the infrastructure was important to see what was true could be these Teachers Schools so our economy could look theres nothing like it in russia in the world or custom that one change any time soon because theres no money left leadership would be genius it wouldnt even if the woman e. It wouldnt be invested in infrastructure. Predicted. On the map the new silk road leads to the russian town of oren borg. In the days of the czars it was the gateway to asia. At the entrance to the town lorries and trains cross the ural the river that marks the geographical border between the asian and european continents. Instead of just historically speaking the ural has always formed a natural border just this is just the big rather just look at the in the post caravans coming from asia always paused here in the couple of the river was a barrier in the Book Greenwich the schedule. Today the chinese efforts once again seem to come to a halt at the symbolic border. From here the project of the new silk road depends on moscows goodwill but does putins russia even want it. Watered down to doing but im skeptical about the relationship between china and russia whats your russia is facing a Laborious Rethinking Process A solution that russia used to be chinas big brother today it struggles to accept that china is superior. To handle were told of course china and russia are cooperating on military to raise. Geopolitical reasons but the new silk road has little support in russia and because russia has its own eurasian project and with the shah should have housing it all yeah its a fine and dandy they see. The whole story and for putin as for stalin before him military strength is the primary factor decision but thats just not enough in todays world and you need an efficient Economy Technology science which is coutinho russia has none of that kazakhstan and his backers stand are already turning towards china while trying to maintain a balance but russias all talk of it was golden china has the money all russia has is memories who glorious past has been one overly complex or. People like to come to the bridge of orenburg to enjoy the sunset looking west towards europe but many confess that theyre looking the other way more and more often. At this moment im sure their house each year will be our future after such china and other european are other regimes under sour grapes developing and they are influenced so life our culture well that thats why injuries our future. There. May be the new silk road will cross the ural river tomorrow and in the end a modern highway will connect china to europe as the railway already does. It will be a europe thats currently coping with many crises and that doesnt seem to have yet grasped the extent of she ging things project. How can your account or the power structures china is building along its new silk road. How will europe respond to this new soft imperialism based on Economic Growth and imperialism thats redrawing the map between europe and asia. To. Board. A plane. To leave england beethoven. His work in the goddess fortuna. The maestro and figure. Beethoven is just wrong twenty teams. Are seeing down easy capital in northern iraq reduced to rubble in many Parts Qingdao feels like a ghost town to lead after years after liberation from my ex only three cells that have a lease have returned to a city which once had more than Eighty Thousand inhabitants a city struggling to find peace. 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