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  • In February 2016, the first Silk Road train arrived in Iran after making a nearly 6,000-mile

  • trip, taking just two weeks. This route is the start of what many are calling the new

  • Silk Road, modelled after ancient trade roads which allowed the East and West to connect

  • in the BC era. The new pathway is expected to revolutionize China, as well as other countries

  • along the way. So, what exactly is the New Silk Road?

  • Well, to get a sense of where we are today, let’s look at the original Silk Road. For

  • a long period of time there were localized kingdoms and empires spanning the globe. But

  • the region between China and Western Asia and Europe is not very hospitable, and crossing

  • it back in 200 BC would have been incredibly dangerous. As a result, while trade did occur,

  • it was much more regional, and long distance trade routes were rare. But when the West

  • encountered Chinese silk, demand for it exploded. The huge demand led to an entire network of

  • trade routes, crisscrossing central Asia. Although many other goods found their way

  • along this road, it was named after its most lucrative good: silk. Most importantly for

  • human civilization, the increased trade led to culture sharing between the East and the

  • West. Religions, philosophies, and even diseases made their way from one region of the world

  • to the other.

  • And while the original Silk Road was a political and economic explosion, the new Silk Road

  • promises to change the face of Asia. It is being hailed as the signature foreign policy

  • initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and could be the largest economic undertaking

  • since the Marshall Plan post-World War Two. In fact, many are saying that the road would

  • be China’s answer to the US’s Trans Pacific Partnership, which presently excludes China

  • and Russia, and seeks to streamline global trade.

  • First and foremost, the new trade routes will make it easier for China to trade with former

  • Soviet States, which have seen a sharp rise in trade since the USSR’s collapse. The

  • plan to build more roads, railways, ports, and other transit infrastructure is being

  • called theOne Belt, One Roadplan. This is comprised of two routes, a land road

  • running from East Asia into Western Europe, and a maritime route stretching to the Southeast

  • Asia, South Asia and Africa by sea. Along the way, these routes will pass through as

  • many as 60 countries and regions covering half of the entire world’s GDP. Just the

  • China-Pakistan corridor alone is expected to cost $46 billion dollars. And while a total

  • cost for the project is unknown, analysts expect the road to bring in an additional

  • 2 and a half trillion dollars of trade to China in the next decade.

  • This long reach across Asia will serve to boost economic prosperity, but perhaps more

  • importantly, give China greater control over its neighbors. Some strategists in Beijing

  • have also suggested that an increase in economic stability may undermine the appeal of radical

  • Islam in the region, particularly in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as

  • violent autonomous states like Xinjiang.

  • With trade agreements like the TPP threatening China’s influence in the global economy,

  • the New Silk Road is likely China’s best bet at keeping trade supremacy, as well as

  • exerting further control over Asia. In any case, China is about to own a huge number

  • of infrastructure projects in a diversity of regional countries. That alone puts them

  • in a risky, yet incredibly strong bargaining position with the rest of the world.

  • But that’s not to say that China isn’t already a major world economic leader. Find

  • out more about just how powerful China is by watching this video! (sound up) Thanks

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In February 2016, the first Silk Road train arrived in Iran after making a nearly 6,000-mile

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