Behind companies have cut wages and council bonuses for the employees in downtown beijing the traces of the past 6 months are still visible. Businesses have been hit hard by this crisis many had little to no income for months and months and many shops and restaurants have to shut down experts have long warned of chinas imbalance growth too much investment and consumption corporate 19 has made these warnings ever more urgent. China has a history of ambitious projects the great wall of china the silk road and now its new silk road officially known as the belgian Road Initiative its the largest Infrastructure Project ever seen the transport Energy Mining i. T. And communications projects spanned the globe and even reach into outer space the original so proud basing quaint according to todays standards but the fact is it paved the way to where we are now. A brief history of the silk road 6400 kilometers searing 50 degree celsius heat the bitter cold of 40 below across steps deserts and hig
Staking out its claims on every continent with its sprawling belt and Road Initiative impacting how most every country does business officials in beijing a setting the Global Standards in tech they drawing up their own treaties and deals and theyve got the upper hand with an immense amount of financial firepower but chinas also highly secretive bad restrictive the question is is china more of a partner old rival. President xi jinping has promised time and again to open his mammoth economy to the world to lead an International Investment and allow for a level Playing Field german executives ive spoken to say its going in the other direction they say chinese officials clamping down on foreign firms more than ever china and the European Union have been hammering out a comprehensive agreement on investment for 7 years now but after multiple rounds of negotiations theyve basically got no way. The skyscrapers a friend high have all been built in the past 30 years. Almost all the big German C
India, turkey, across europe and kansas city. He most recently finished the coeditor of the coeditor of First World War. And doctor t keller is a National Certified instructor. When you ask those questions, make sure they have a question mark at the end of them. Now, please help me welcome him. [applause] good evening. I am thrilled to be here and happy you could join me. I will talk about my current research, a Global Environmental history of the First World War. I am interested in Energy Geopolitics that link the battle lines on the home fronts with agricultural and industry in ways that fundamentally shaped the 20th century. So i will talk about the main battlefield many of us are familiar with, then hop, skip, and jump around the globe to point out areas that had an incredibly profound Environmental Impact. Now, few human endeavors have altered the Natural World as much as agriculture industry and warfare. In 1914, these came together in ways that were incredibly destructive. When
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During these two years and its importance today . Julie yeah, so, the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. That is a conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a longstanding dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is killed soon after, and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a faction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. Now, by 1914, the contitutionalists had become successful. They have largely managed to control a large part of the country. And at this point of success, pancho villa breaks with the constitutionalists. He is successful militarily against carranza for a long time, but during 1915 he actually has a series of military reverses against the current government. So he goes from having an army that is about 30,