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The drone delivery covered almost 25 miles of rainforests and rugged mountainous terrain. Therefore the Silk Road can be credited, at least in part, with the formation of military states and empires in Central Asia and the East, which could influence the trade taking place along the Silk Road, and the main traders along the route passed from Indian and Bactrian traders in antiquity, to Sogdians and later Arab and Persian traders as conflicting states rose to and fell from prominence, and the Islamic Caliphate dominated trade in the region for much of the Middle Ages.
The Mongol Empire, which one might argue was aided in its eventual formation by the effect of centuries of activity along the Silk Road, and Mongol expansion across the Asian continent helped bring more political stability, re-establishing the Silk Road with its political centres, which included Beijing, spread along the course of the Silk Road, and this did much to aid communication between East and West through missionaries and envoys as well as the caravan merchants, most famously documented by the travels of Venetian explorer Marco Polo in the thirteenth century.
The Silk Road can also, less fortunately, be attributed significance in the transmission of the Black Death, reaching from Central Asia to Europe along the trade routes, and this along with the fragmentation of the Mongol Empire loosened the political and economic solidarity between powers along the Silk Road and saw a decline in levels of trade. Furthermore in Europe the nation-state rose and gave way to conflict and economic mercantilism, and so the Silk Road suffered as a trade network between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
So as we can see, the concept of a Great Silk Road in pre-modern society did much for the development of societies across the world, increasing communication, allowing ideas and discoveries to spread and creating a more economically and politically advanced, integrated and co-operative world, although it could not stop conflict. Moreover, we can also consider the concept of a New Silk Road in a more metaphorical sense. Perhaps a New Silk Road will facilitate the transmission of ideas and technologies that aided and affected pre-modern societies in such a significant fashion. As the two biggest powers of our time, the fact that the USA and China have both in the years since around actively sought to revive the Silk Road in a modern form should be encouraging, but it does not necessarily represent shared interests, and indeed there is good reason to believe that the US and China have different concepts, expectations and intentions for a New Silk Road.
The relationship between the US and China bears significance for the entire world, and this is why examining, scrutinizing and comparing Chinese and American motivations in reviving the Silk Road is so important.
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It brings to light the potential dangers of both powers acting on the project with only their own intentions in mind, many specific to the Silk Road project such as the infrastructure and the future of Afghanistan, and several representative of wider issues in the burgeoning Sino-American power tussle, such as retaining influence in the Arab World, control of mineral resources, and military presence across the Eurasian continent.
Moreover, the rhetoric on the New Silk Road by both China and the US may not match the actual intent or aims of either party, and by taking a look at past policymaking in both countries, as well as considering the issues that will be created by the New Silk Road, we can gain a better sense of the potential merits and dangers of the project and its effect on the global political and economic landscape.
Fragile Superpower the need for mutual understanding between China and the USA, though more specifically the USA, as China becomes more and more powerful in order to minimize tensions and avoid conflict.
Fortunately, both Shirk and Jacques point to the economic interdependence between China and the US as a key obstruction to conflict, but issues like mineral resources and spheres of influence could eventually overpower the resolve to compromise. The first of these for the most part uses the Trans-Siberian Railway between Vladivostok and Western Europe, and was completed in The second runs from Lianyungang Port, through Kazakhstan and eventually terminating at Rotterdam, which completed testing in The third begins at the Pearl River Delta, running through South Asia before also terminating at Rotterdam, but is not yet finished.
We can point out the numerous beneficial aspects of such a connection to Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe for China, in trade, environment and diplomacy.
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So as we can see, the New Silk Road, in the eyes of China, will allow for increases in the volume of trade, by opening new channels and increasing efficiency, between China and Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. China has also made moves to stimulate trade between these areas, re-launching the yearly China-Eurasia Expo in Improving the Xinjiang province is a high hope of the New Silk Road in the eyes of the Chinese government.
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Christina Lin recorded that by using the first corridor, cargo could be transported from Beijing to Hamburg over ten thousand kilometres in fifteen days. By comparison, shipping the goods from China to Germany would add another ten thousand kilometres and twenty-five days to the transport time. In the case of China, where the economic growth enjoyed in recent decades has come at a severe environmental cost, one that continues to rise and can be argued to be unsustainable in the face of continuing growth, the lighter carbon footprint of freight rail compared to sea travel is a relatively small but welcome relief.
However, as we will see, the advent of freight has not slowed Chinese investment in maritime endeavours. On the other hand, although the desire to help the Greater Central Asian states is an aspect where intentions overlap, the American concept of a New Silk Road does not match the Chinese concept. The US plan to develop on their own Northern Distribution Network, which they have used to supply their own forces in Afghanistan when political conditions in surrounding countries such as Pakistan have been unfavourable, in a similar manner to China, in that caravan tracks and camel pathways of the Old Silk Road will be replaced by energy pipelines and railways.
So as we can see, American and Chinese intentions, aims and expectations for the New Silk Road differ, with the Chinese wishing to strengthen ties with their neighbours and to strengthen their own extensive trade network across the Eurasian landmass, whereas the US wish to retain and impose their own influence on the region with the aim of guiding the Greater Central Asian states towards a Western path of economic and political development, based on democracy and free market principles.
This illuminates the areas of potential friction, if both powers continue their work on the project with only their own intentions in mind, against the suggestions of Susan Shirk. Ominously, it is difficult to find any dialogue between the United States and China on the New Silk Road project and as time goes on, the issues of energy security, resources and military presence could become dangerous. On the issues of oil and energy, clearly both the US and China intend to utilize the resources found across Central Asia. Simpfendorfer tells us that China is looking towards Central Asia due to the amount of troubled states in the Middle East and Africa.
Shirk also told us that the Chinese invest in new oil and gas fields instead of just buying energy on the market so it can be sure that the US or other countries cannot shut it off if relations sour, and the US has done the same in the past. Shirk argued that from a Chinese perspective, it looks as if global energy markets are dominated by Western oil companies. As global supplies of energy become tighter in the face of continually increasing demand, the US may be forced to seek greater quantities of energy from the Middle East if supplies cannot be secured from sites along the New Silk Road.
With the Chinese position in the Middle East strong and getting stronger, competition between the two major energy consumers could intensify to the point of highest tension. What is happening, Luce argues, is a shift away from an economy based on investment, to one driven by consumption. As better-paid, longer-term, manufacturing jobs decline and are replaced by lower-paid, shorter-term, service jobs, the engine of American growth is deprived of the fuel it needs to keep driving forward.
It is argued that the shift in economic orthodoxy — against the importance of manufacturing — has come at a high price, where more jobs in the service sector, create less income, depriving the economy as a whole of investment resources and income stability. The decline of manufacturing, it is argued, means more than a loss of production because if America does not make goods, it is in a worse-off position to innovate.
This is not to diminish the significant consequences of current economic decline. This brings with it all kinds of associated difficulties, for individuals and for the economy as a whole.
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Loss of earnings suppress personal spending in the economy, on health care and on education and savings — stifling entrepreneurial activity and investment. This lack of interrogation of current certainties is problematic in other areas also. In education, for example, despite spending twice as much per student in real terms than it did in , there has been no improvement in performance. In one generation the US has fallen from first to ninth in the proportion of young people with graduate degrees.
In a thought-provoking chapter, Luce argues that the contemporary shifts in educational approaches have begun to lose sight of the higher purpose of education altogether. The impact of Bill Gates and his fellow educational philanthropists who have between them funded almost every advocacy group involved in US education has been to mistakenly apply the business-oriented approaches they are most familiar with to education, in the hope that schools will turn around.
This has led to an emphasis on competition, choice, incentives, deregulation and performance testing — of both students and teachers.
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There has been a similar rigidity of approach towards innovation. Using a range of interviews, with prominent venture capitalists, inventors, IT wizards, NASA scientists and senior bureaucrats, Luce offers evidence for a strong consensus that government support is necessary for significant innovation.
Luce argues convincingly that this extreme political view is not shared by those professionals responsible for innovation.