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 shannon bell mushy is one of the main players in this ongoing project he's a frenchman of moroccan origin and an employee of d.p. world a group of companies based in dubai and one of the world's leading logistics organizations guy on wall china is behind me almaty in kazakhstan is in front of me and mattie to the left of me is kyrgyzstan and beyond it was becky stan i have russia to my right it's called goss's at the center between all of these countries this is where everything is happening. so i was just. he shunned belmarsh she works for the cause a government which is hoping to get a lot out of the new silk road. it's a road that could turn this middle of nowhere into an outpost of globalization. zero in on the often if there's any place that symbolizes the meeting of east and west it's this one city. that is why the chinese tracked and beh

it consists of two major trade routes the land based silk road economic belt which winds its way from china through central asia the middle east and on to europe and the maritime silk road which creates a ceiling connecting southern china southeast asia india east africa and also europe. industry representatives. say the project off has enormous potential for german companies which can deploy the necessary resources. if it involves developing physical infrastructure especially in central asian countries which aren't as well linked or developed that's clearly something which well known and large german infrastructure developers. are very much at home with. but there could also be plenty of orders for small and medium sized enterprises they can supply specialized machinery and other equipment to foreign partners involved in the mammoth projects though there are some high hurdles to clear. that's a good that's because many projects are put out to tender off financing by the chinese banks in the same way we used to doing things here and there are plenty of challenges when it comes to calc

it consists of two major trade routes the land based silk road economic belt which winds its way from china through central asia the middle east and on to europe and the maritime silk road which creates a ceiling connecting southern china southeast asia india east africa and also europe. industry representatives say the project off has enormous potential for german companies which can deploy the necessary resources. if it involves developing physical infrastructure especially in central asian countries which aren't as well linked or developed that's clearly something which well known and large german infrastructure developers. are very much at home with. but there could also be plenty of orders for small and medium sized enterprises they can supply specialized machinery and other equipment to foreign partners involved in the mammoth projects though there are some high hurdles to clear. that's a good that's because many projects are put out to tender or financing by the chinese banks in the same way we used to doing things here and there are plenty of challenges when it comes to calcul

there are some ideas like silk road and the economic component of the silk road. i do not want to talk about the specifics but we think this initiative is compatible with our project. we want to build in economic inon and develop cooperation an expanded sense of the term and our interest converge. we have a lot of things on which we could work together. the level of relations between russia and china is very high and we treasure these relations and we congratulate the chairman on being reelected and we are by himnt that china, led and russia, will do everything they can to further develop the russia china cooperation. when will you nominate new members of your cabinet? practice is the president appoints the new cabinet after he enters office, so i will have to consider a few things first. i think all of the appointments will take place after the inauguration date. do you have somebody in mind for prime minister? and are you going to launch a constitution of reform during your new term? >> no. at this point, no constitutional reform is on the table. the premise to

china: the new silk road. next on great decisions. (soft music) - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. (soft music) - [narrator] chinese history for the past 30 years has been a story of economic growth. - there's never really be an economic revolution quite like china's. the most populous country in the world also enjoying the most rapid economic growth in history. an industrial revolution is far more rapid than in britain or america, for example. - we've never seen so many people come out of poverty so quickly. we've never seen so many people go from the rural countryside into the city so quickly. what had took europe 150 years to do in the industrial revolution, china has done in 30 years. - [narrator] in 1979, chinese leader deng xiaoping called on the country to combine socialist ideology with elements of a pragmatic market economy, under the banner of socialism with chinese characterist

it consists of two major trade routes the land based silk road economic belt which winds its way from china through central asia the middle east and on to europe and the maritime silk road which creates a ceiling connecting southern china southeast asia india east africa and also europe. industry representatives say the project off has enormous potential for german companies which can deploy the necessary resources. if it involves developing physical infrastructure especially in central asian countries which aren't as well linked or developed that's clearly something which well known and large german infrastructure developers. are very much at home with. but there could also be plenty of orders for small and medium sized enterprises they can supply specialized machinery and other equipment to foreign partners involved in the mammoth projects though there are some high hurdles to clear. as they get that because many projects are put out to tender or financed by the chinese banks in the same way we used to doing things here and the. plenty of challenges when it comes to calculating pric

plan to project economic power, of which the biggest element is called one b elt, one raod, the new silk road they use the foreign investment to project economic power through the eurasian landmass in africa. they bought up the port of courageous and later announced -- very controversially so, not just to finance tech companies for the city grid, but a secret state but described the agency. but,it comes to forward when we w w w w w w w w w w w we have got to bring this up. we have got to get them to the table and say, we are paying attention and we have got to talk about this, so maybe this is the way to do it. situations where, taking unorthodox measures might influence away to country not playing by the rules. it comes to china, it is anybody who agrees with how that is working. on message. if they want to buy stakes in other companies, they are and it isy -- aitely a ver very different situation whether you look at the trade in the u.s. and china or the u.s. you cannot even compare those battlegrounds. it is no secret that china5 nina: is not playing nina: by any rules. they do not allow f

you may take about silk road. silk road was the first large-scale online marketplace for illicit drugs. now, who ran it? it was not a member of any cartel. it was ross albrecht who is now sitting in prison for a very long time, who was a dropout in physics from penn state. so there he is, and extremely highly skilled individual tech skills. he was never a juvenile delinquent. he wasn't eagle scout, the highest level boy scout you can be. and he had an ideology of distributing drugs and making a market available, sort of like the counter amazon. and he was extremely good at this, and it took about 2.5 years for law enforcement to catch up with him. but this is the kind of new type of facilitator of these massive illicit marketplaces. when we have eastern european dark web marketplaces, or former soviet marketplaces, they are not dealing in drugs as much. we've had pharma leaks that dealt in prescription drugs like viagra, and they are dealing in selling this malware and botnets and terrible things for our computer

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said nice things about china's influence, but he also issued a few words of caution about china's silk road idea, that france which worries is going to become a one-way street for chinese influence going out into other regions, and the fear that china will not be open to a quid pro quo exchange. clearly, india is a partner in that sense for france because it does share other points in common on climate change, clean energy, saving proposition 21 and so forth. india being aware of chinese influence is something france can share. >> thank you for that. bangladeshi passenger plane has crashed in nepal. 67 passengers and four crewmembers were on board. it was coming to land at kathmandu airport at the time. let's bring in our regional correspondent based in new delhi. what more are you hearing about the casualties from this crash? n ns out of tragic kathmandu. ndiscernrnible] >> apologies for that, we seem to be having some trouble with our connection. we will go back later about that crash in the fall that left at least -- nepal, that left at least 50 people dead. failing to win back president

china, the new silk road. next time on great decisions. (theme music) >>> hello, you're watching nhk "newsline." i'm keiko kitagawa in tokyo. we begin with the u.s., where students in florida are returning to school for the first time since a gunman killed 17 people. the massacre has put the country's fierce gun control debate in the spotlight. and president donald trump is once again throwing his support behind moves to strengthen gun rules. >> we have to do something about it. we now have to -- we have to act. we can't wait and play

very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflation they cause a lot of problems and then they had a way back at unwind all that somehow by normalizing the economies on his way back and that's a great story i had no idea that the richest man ever in history was this african now he was not the richest guy in the world he was actually worth just four hundred fifteen billion there were several people richer than him including the richest man in the world ever was julius caesar son augustus who's worth two point two trillion dollars but here we see the impact of. like warren buffett famously walks into a room if you walked into this room here there's a four or five of us here we would be worth on average what probably about five billion dollars each write something along those lines yes so it's an interesting fascinating story shows you that the even back then there was a lot of interesting economic vagar

for example, the silk route, and the economic element of this silk road.talk about specific areas of cooperation but i think this is very compatible with our projects of creating and eurasian economic area and establishing eurasian partnership, our interests go together are outlined here. and we will do this. china is our strategic partner, the level of relationships between china and russia are unprecedented at the moment, and we congratulate the chairman for being re—elected and we express our con that they will do everything to strengthen russian— china relationships. when are we going to expect changes in the government, before or after the election? or changes in the government should happen when the president has taken office. i will be thinking what could be done and i think all changes will take place after negotiation, just to clarify, have you identified the new person for the prime minister? also do you have any plans for any constitutional reform? have any plans for any constitutional reform ? for the moment? for the moment i'm not planning any

project economic power of which the largest element is something called one belt one road or the new silk road for their use foreign direct investment which is the flip side of the coin of trade to project their. anomic power all through the eurasian landmass into africa they bought up the port of parathas in athens they're buying up much of the german economy for instance since we happen to be here very controversially so not just finance tech companies tricity grid just now a stake a secret state they spilt up secretly in and the maker of mercedes benz off with the explicit aim of bringing intellectual property home at the same time when it comes to foreign direct investment they don't grant those privileges to german european american companies in china so it is about more than trade and we have to bring this up and we have to get them to the table and saying look we're paying attention and we have to talk about this so maybe this is the way to do it. would you agree with that let's head to is there perhaps are there situations where taking an orthodox measures may be the only way to influe

and the economic component of the silk road and i don't want to talk about this specific so our cooperation but we think that this initiative has quite compatible with our projects in that we want to build the eurasian economic the union we want to develop a eurasian coppery in an expanded sense of the terms and our interests coincide they converge and we have a lot of things on which we could work together and we'll do that china is i was thirteen partner the level of relations between russia and china he is unprecedentedly high you we're proud of it and we treasure these relations so we congratulate chairman see on being really acted and we are confident that china led by him and russia will do everything they can to further develop russia turn out cooperation. that's news agency when will you. nominate new members of your cabinet before inauguration day or after. well the standard practice is. the president appoints the new government near the new cabinet after he answers office so i will have to consider a few things first i think all the appointments will take place after you know grat

seventeen nearly ninety three percent of that's a region that's critical to president xi jinping silk road ambitions while the exact number of the billions spent on domestic security is not published percentage increases are and they were released just last week at the start of the annual legislative session called the national people's congress. indonesia's trying to free up its great law capital a new plan to ease the choking congestion has. to drive to work on alternate days step austin explains. and not a government's attempt to reduce those famous traffic jams every weekday from six to nine am an odd and even license plate system will take effect here on the patrol road it's a system that has been used already in the city as well and that's now been extended to the suburbs it's easy to remember because on the odd days an odd number plate is allowed to enter here the toll road and on the even days will be even numberous and if someone tries to answer the toll road with the wrong number there will be no mercy and you will immediately be sent back. for those who are not allowed to enter

backing is trying to do at the moment is to block china's efforts to create what people call the new silk road which will be a trading route and of course within this trade route will be a nexus of. gas and oil pipelines running to different countries so there was plans for example but for the u.s. to run a pipeline from i think it's turkmenistan down to pakistan and then on to india and this will prevent iran from running a pipeline through. pakistan to provide india with energy although iran seems to be pushing ahead with that anyway regardless of what the u.s. wants so in western media particularly even among the left wing liberal media we can we just don't hear about these kind of geo strategic interests it's all focusing on the party politics or counterterrorism or whatever it may be or the minute show of particular operations on the broader context the importance of the economy and the dependence on fossil fuels is omitted from this sort of coverage. absolutely and you spoke previously of the british support for the u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three but some of the supports

but is beijing and the playing its hand silk road to find time for china's way into the top. fifteen to. move it up a fine for the case to be taken seriously in the world of what appears was coming up. on g.w. oh they do this the still super hero is on a mission to check out to the smart women scott smart talks smart strange and legend please and by no means missed out on a brain creasing dangerous touch to make. just as strong as he made a point of still. representing the. architect of east germany's police station i. explained if i had my way. east germany would still be. master of her. and want to know about. starting march thirteenth d.w. . barely feel. the scars on live the pain still tangible. the suffering for god. to see the edge by her. they have survived the do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something . new beginning in peace time for the people making it possible what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chanc

backing is trying to do at the moment is to block china's efforts to create what people call the new silk road which will be a trading route and of course within this trade route will be a nexus of. gas and oil pipelines running to different countries so there was plans for example for the u.s. to run a pipeline from i think it's turkmenistan down to pakistan and then on to india and this will prevent iran from running a pipeline through. pakistan to provide india with energy although iran seems to be pushing ahead with that anyway regardless of what the u.s. wants so in western media particularly even among left wing liberal media we can we just don't hear about these kind of geo strategic interests it's all focusing on the party politics or counterterrorism or whatever it may be or the minute show of particular operations on the broader context the importance of the economy and the dependence on fossil fuels is omitted from this sort of coverage. absolutely and you spoke previously of the british support for the u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three but some of the supports may hav

very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflation they cause a lot of problems and they had a way back at unwind all that somehow by normalizing the economy is on his way back and it's a great story i had no idea that the richest man ever in history was this african now he was not the richest guy in the world he was actually worth just four hundred fifteen billion there were several people richer than him including the richest man in the world ever was julius caesar son augustus who's worth two point two trillion dollars but here we see the impact of. like warren buffett famously walks into a room if you walked into this room here there's four or five of us here we would be worth on average what probably about five billion dollars each write something along those lines yes so it's an interesting fascinating story shows you that the even back then there was a lot of interesting economic vagaries that

very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflation they cause a lot of problems and they had a way back at unwind all that somehow by normalizing the economy is on his way back and it's a great story i had no idea that the richest man ever in history was this african now he was not the richest guy in the world he was actually worth just four hundred fifteen billion there were several people richer than him including the richest man in the world ever was julius caesar son augustus who's worth two point two trillion dollars but here we see the impact of. like warren buffett famously walks into a room if you walked into this room here there's a four or five of us here we would be worth on average what probably about five billion dollars each write something along those lines yes so it's an interesting fascinating story shows you that the even back then there was a lot of interesting economic vagaries th

very fascinating as people are celebrating all these huge infrastructure deals whether it's the new silk road or the infrastructure plan that trump is allegedly proposing right. you know spreading around of all this money cause a lot of inflation they cause a lot of problems and they had a way back at unwind all that somehow by normalizing the economy is on his way back and it's a great story i had no idea that the richest man ever in the history was of african now he was not the richest guy in the world he was actually worth just four hundred fifteen billion there were several people richer than him including the richest man in the world ever was julius caesar son augustus who's worth two point two trillion dollars but here we see the impact of. like warren buffett famously walks into a room if you walked into this room here there's a four or five of us here we would be worth on average what probably about five billion dollars each write something along those lines yes so it's an interesting fascinating story shows you that the even back then there was a lot of interesting economic of vagari

become the hub or the center of a broader trading universe if you will that it revolves around the silk road there are actors that do pay an r. and b. in that are willing to accept those trade offs more often than not the producers that are willing to buy an r. and b. are the ones that are under sanctions or that have limited access to global financial markets and therefore it is a double edged sword for them right now so again the currency of the r. and b. will increase in a war i'm seeing an increase in global transactions that is part of the belt and road but for china to become. a truly global player it will also have to relinquish some of the controls that it likes to hold on in the foreign in the domestic market and again that will take time but what's the likelihood of that of that happening of china's government loosing loosening the reins so to speak it's very hard to see that happen in the coming five years. they still have a lot of domestic challenges that they need to meet in those and i think the government sent increasingly under siege and ping is that the state and the party n

seventeen nearly ninety three percent now that's a region that's critical to president xi jinping silk road ambitions while the exact number of the billions spent on domestic security is not published percentage increases are and they were released just last week at the start of the annual legislative session called the national people's congress the new york times has criticized the saudi crown prince for what he calls his anti corruption efforts just days before mohammed bin sound man is due to go to the u.s. they also says hundreds of powerful saudi citizens have been forced to wear electronic tags which track their movements and monitor their conversations with this is say the body of a general in the saudi national guard who died after being detained showed signs of torture in november the saudi government locked up hundreds of influential people in the riyadh ritz carlton hotel. the un is seeking five hundred million dollars to keep paper and hundreds of schools for palestinian refugees across the middle east the job of the un relief and works agency has become even more difficult aft

seventeen nearly ninety three percent know that's a region that's critical to president xi jinping silk road ambitions while the exact number of the billions spent on domestic security is not published percentage increases are and they were released just last week at the start of the any legislative session called the national people's congress greece's top football league has been suspended indefinitely after the owner of the team stepped on to the pitch with a gun strapped to his belt police have issued a warrant for the arrest of russian businessman ivan savages after he invaded the page to confront a referee over it disallowed goal in a match against a key athens can a. challenging for the greek super league title french fashion design a bad she has died aged ninety one the fashion leader was famed for the little black dress and creating the iconic looks for audrey had been grace kelly and jackie kennedy is business and am at the announcement saying he died in his sleep on saturday. a quick look at the top stories now the british prime minister to reason may has just been speaking to par

say there are two different people in the world there are as development like china and the new silk road that i would not say is nation versus nation but geopolitical cooperation with the new era of cooperation for mankind to be in south america this is is an entirely new system but meanwhile you also have the fact that there is to be the fbi intelligence operation to attack the president and we saw this with the memo with that circular information being used. >> i'm sure there is a question. >> absolutely but christopher steele was shown he worked with the author of the weapons of mass instruction. >> i saw that. a real question a lot of people are standing behind you. get to your question. >> british intelligence this is a british run attack through the doj. >> and how have your. >> there will be a question. >> no no no. please. let her ask her question. >> because the financial system is bankrupt they want to prevent that establishment of new global collaboration trump said he wants to work with russia that is good they want to sabotage this now the democrats buy into this what is you

they lived at the crossroads of the plan or one of the few on the silk road.here been invading armies in and of their sins time immemorial. not unlike texans who really don't have alamo and a couple of others to even cling onto, these people identify themselves, their very identity as a culture is based around their long an ancient and proud tradition of an existing foreign invasion. that is who they are. defenders from invasions. at their very core. so it's not working. it hasn't worked and it's not going to work. afghanistan is landlocked. it's south-central asia but there's about 400 miles of mountainous pakistan between afghanistan and the sea. and to get to afghanistan by land on the indian ocean they have to drive all the way up through pakistan and through the past and afghanistan. incredibly long and expensive supply line. this is a country the size of texas, which if you ever driven across texas, it's incredible. you can see why it was its own country for a little while. and also they have deserts like california and mountains like colorado. it's incr

yvonne: let us discuss this with silk road associates founder and ceo.inationals and governments. thank you for joining us. we have this well, deal that fell apart. china now seems to be quite calm. heater have the likes of navarro, trade hawks who have ascended in the trump administration. his are any chance, you think of a china-u.s. trade deal now. ben simpfendorfer: it is certainly for more challenging than in the past. china has justified their tariffs -- the u.s. has justified their tariffs as we for the sake of u.s. national security. china has really benefited from globalization in general. yvonne: it seems like the next step will be intellectual property and it seems like tech continues to outperform the market. the markets are still ignoring this at the moment. ben simpfendorfer: the u.s. should really be pursuing intellectual property rights instead of imposing tariffs on steel. that is what the tpp was all about, which of course, trump walked away from. china has been restrained so far, that has given the market some confidence, but also beca

marshals with the shutdown of silk road but you're also a big investor in the company. tell me how about you look at the opportunities out there and view the ecosystem. >> well, i think crypto in general and bitcoin specifically is transformative. suddenly you have a distributed currency that is not subject to the whims of some political force or another, it can go across border, it's global i think the word "international" is going to fade away and the word global is going to come forward. and i think we've got the beginning of a major movement and i think it's bigger than the ice -- the iron age and the bronze age and the internet age. this is the biggest thing that's ever happened in the -- to the world today. i think we've got one of the great opportunities as investors, we've got a great opportunity for-to-participate through bitcoin, through other crypto, through coinbase, through other -- all these groups doing incredible things and as a human i think we've now got a world where there's going to be governance that's local but then there's going to be a virtual go

difficult goals one of them is creating can you silk road. and it was an economic foundations of the civil war. i would work. about concrete programs in our cooperation but i think it's comparable. to our attempts to create your asian economic union or your asian partnership in the broader sense of who work here we have similar. comparable goals when we have a number all joint projects china is our strategic partner relationships between russia and china on president lee great we would like to. congratulate president xi jinping a say a serial acted leader of china we sure that china and the his leadership and from our side and russia will do if you would ever think. to improve russian chinese cooperation. agency when do you think we can see changes in the government option before or after inauguration. i think that all changes in the government structure should be dealt with by of a new president who started it in his new term i will start thinking about it now because i think all changes will take place after the integration. i think i would

seventeen nearly ninety three percent now that's a region that's critical to president xi jinping silk road ambitions while the exact number of the billions spent on domestic security is not published percentage increases are and they were released just last week at the start of the annual legislative session called the national people's congress all right listening to adrian senses the report author and he's a lecturer at the european school of culture and theology and he joins us now from stuttgart in germany thank you very much indeed for talking to us and what do you what do you how do you read this exponential growth in spending on domestic security in china what does it actually translate into. well to some extent the domestic security spending in china represents the catching of china's a very large country with religious myths and significant policing needs however what we see in recent years especially after the two thousand and eight riots and last for tibet and shinji is a government that's increasingly preoccupied with domestic security and the xi jinping this is being pushed to

, this is part of the ancient tea road, outside of chengdu.or hins also called this the southern silk roadtal tradroute that opened western china to india, the middle east, and beyond. for all thtea in chengdu, next on "yan can cook." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪