Beijing continues unceasingly to develop its « Silk Road » project. China’s vice-President, Wang Qishan, has undertaken a tour of the Near East which took him to Israël for four days. According to the agreements which have already been signed, within two years China will control the major part of Israël’s agro-food industry, its high technology and its international exchanges. A free trade agreement should follow, and the geopolitics of the whole region will be turned upside down.
The visit of Chinese vice-president Wang Qishan to
Israël, Palestine, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates is aimed at
developing the « New Silk Road ».
In the autumn of 2013, China made public its project for the creation
of maritime and especially terrestrial communication routes across the
world. It unblocked colossal sums of money and began to realise its plan
at a rapid rate. The main axes will cross either Asia or Russia towards
Western Europe. But it is also planning routes across Africa and Latin
America.
The obstacles to the New Silk Road
The project is going to meet two obstacles, one of them economic, the other strategic.From the Chinese point of view, this project is aimed at exporting its products according to the model of the ancient « Silk Road » which, from the 2nd to the 15th century, linked China to Europe via the Ferghana Valley, Iran and Syria. At the time, this concerned transporting products from town to town, so that at each stage they were exchanged for other goods according to the needs of the local merchants. However, today, on the contrary, China hopes to sell directly to Europe and the world. But their products are no longer exotic wares (silks, spices, etc.) but identical to those of the Europeans, and often of superior quality. The commercial route has been transformed into a super-highway. While Marco Polo was dazzled by the silks from the Far East without their equivalent in Italy, Angela Merkel is terrified at the idea of seeing her automobile industry destroyed by her Chinese competitors. The developed countries are therefore going to have to do business with Beijing, and at the same time, protect their industries from economic shock.
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