Western leaders to skip China's New Silk Road summit

[Star Expedition]

I am wondering if this guy has any "whiteman's" picture on his alter.

No need to wonder such thing.

To Chinese, we don't care about skin color.

 

[rott]

No need to wonder such thing.

To Chinese, we don't care about skin color.

Not talking about Chinese. I was talking about the Indian guy you quoted.

 

[武成王]

Most of the countries listed or not listed are not that important or relevant at all since OBOR is a long term vision, there're only 2 or 3 major players in current stage of OBOR, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Malaysia. Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif and Ethiopia PM Hailemariam Desalegn, Malaysia PM Najib Tun Razak are all confirmed to attend the meeting. CPEC (Pakistan) is a link to connect China to East Africa (Ethiopia, Djibouti). This is the real connection China and his partners can control and implement well. Malaysia is the major partner in SEA. The core of OBOR is SEA and Africa, plus Pakistan. Europe or Central Asia is not top priority on the list. Central Asia has a population of less than 80 million, less than Iran. However, Central Asia can access India Ocean via western China and Pakistan. e.g. Kazakhstan can export wheat by this route.

 

[EndangeredSpecies]

Read the link and many European is attending including Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Spain and other. By the way who is representing us?


Do some research before comments. But since you are troll so there you go
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...state-confirm-attendance-chinas-belt-and-road

From that article.

A. "The attendance list for the summit is marked by the notable absence of leaders from major Western countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Canada."

B. "Wang said the leaders of France and Germany had indicated their willingness to attend the summit, but were unable to due to schedule conflicts as their elections loom."

 

[lcloo]

Essentially, OBOR does not include North and South America, Australia, Japan, South Korea. However, they could join in if they wish.

OBOR basically go from China towards regions South and West of China.

Extract from Wiki:-
When Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Central Asia and Southeast Asia in September and October 2013, he raised the initiative of jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. Essentially, the 'belt' includes countries situated on the original Silk Road through Central Asia, West Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. The initiative calls for the integration of the region into a cohesive economic area through building infrastructure, increasing cultural exchanges, and broadening trade. Apart from this zone, which is largely analogous to the historical Silk Road, another area that is said to be included in the extension of this 'belt' is South Asia and Southeast Asia. Many of the countries that are part of this belt are also members of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). North, central and south belts are proposed. The North belt goes through Central Asia, Russia to Europe. The Central belt goes through Central Asia, West Asia to the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. The South belt starts from China to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Indian Ocean. The Central belt has been neglected recently due to complex religion problems and separation movement along the belt. The Chinese One Belt strategy will integrate with Central Asia through Kazakhstan's Nurly Zhol infrastructure program.

 

[Zsari]

You need USA, Germany, France, UK, Canada, Australia, Switzerland. None of them have any interest in your road and belt. Road which is only functioning for half of the year.

For what? To compete with China? OBOR is to expand the networks of market and resources in the developing and under-developed region of the world.

 

[EndangeredSpecies]

For what? To compete with China? OBOR is to expand the networks of market and resources in the developing and under-developed region of the world.

No, to invest into China's grand plan.

 

[Star Expedition]

No, to invest into China's grand plan.

We can't expect understanding from other countries.
We never do.
We just build CPEC, railways and other ports

 

[Zsari]

No, to invest into China's grand plan.

Investments are through AIIB which the European states have already signed up for. The OBOR summit is to discuss how to spend that money.

 

[Brainsucker]

I heard that Abe will come, is it true?

edit :
Ah no, he'll depute somebody for it.

http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/author/bhadrakumaranrediffmailcom/

If Japan’s Abe goes, can PM Modi be far behind?

The decision by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to depute the secretary-general of the ruling Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Toshihiro Nikai to represent the country at the high-level Belt and Road Forum meeting in Beijing on May 14-15 is a dramatic development. It ought to come as an eye-opener for New Delhi, which is brooding over the Chinese invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

What the news from Tokyo underscores is that Abe is an authentic hardliner on China. Paradoxically, in international diplomacy, flexibility is an option available only to the stubborn and the strong-willed. That is why genuine, platinum grade nationalists are never brittle. There is much flexibility in Abe’s decision. Abe wouldn’t miss an opportunity for what the Chinese call strategic communication. This makes sense at the present sensitive juncture in regional security.

Nikai is carrying a “personal letter” from Abe addressed to President Xi Jinping. Evidently, some soundings have taken place beforehand and Xi will likely receive Nikai. A business delegation will accompany Nikai. The Chinese commentators anticipate that a “critical turning point toward a thaw” in Sino-Japanese relations could be in the offing.

India and Japan face comparable challenges in navigating their relationship with China. The Belt and Road generates angst in the Indian and Japanese mind – conjuring up the spectre of a China galloping away and hopelessly outstripping them as strategic competitor in global influence. Japan has not even joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), an underpinning of Belt and Road projects. Japan was a fanatical supporter of the US’ pivot strategy and was dead set against Trump’s jettisoning of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Japan even beefed up the Asian Development Bank as the anti-thesis to AIIB.
But China all along refused to take ‘No’ for an answer from Japan. The AIIB has adopted what the bank’s president Jin Liqun calls the policies of “universal recruitment” and “universal procurement” – that is to say, to quote Jin,

• “The existing institutions only recruit nationals whose countries are the members. We recruit everyone from across the world… We don’t look at your passports. We look at your track record, professional and ethical integrity,” and, secondly,
• “Japan and the United States are not members yet, but their companies will be treated equally and fairly if they are interested in bidding…”

Our pundits blithely assume that Belt and Road is about connectivity and connectivity means roads, highways and ports and infrastructure construction, which is what minister Nitin Gadkari is handling competently enough anyway, isn’t it? In reality, they remain entrapped in Sinophobia and just don’t get the point. The point is, India may not be a great globalizer today, but it could be one tomorrow. And Belt and Road is about a whole new global supply chain appearing on the horizon.

That is precisely what Jin is constantly emphasizing to his western interlocutors. Which is also the reason why so many western countries have warmed up to the Belt and Road – Canada, UK, Britain, Italy, Australia, and so on. (Read the recent report by the European Think-tank Network on China titled Europe and China’s New Silk Roads.)

Abe’s decision to depute a political heavyweight to Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum meeting signals that Japan senses that Belt and Road can be a “win-win” proposition. Nikai is the second most prominent political figure in Japan, next only to Abe.

Now, if Japan tiptoes toward Belt and Road, can the United States be far behind? Or, put differently, has Abe begun hearing Trump’s footfalls? Indeed, while addressing the Atlantic Council at Washington DC, on Monday, Jin disclosed, “This time I did have an opportunity to meet some of the officials in the new government.”

Jin said his conversations with the Trump administration focused on how American companies and the AIIB can work together and that he has also engaged with some US financial institutions, manufacturers and consulting firms. Jin added that he would work with the US on its membership of the AIIB, which has been consistently the desire of the Chinese government. “It (AIIB) should be the platform for cooperation between the two countries.” said Jin.

Unfortunately, we do not have a politician of the stature of Nikai in India with a reputation for being “pro-China”. What a shame! But then, as I have written once already, we have a “strategic asset” in Vice-President M. H. Ansari, who is a peerless communicator. Our priority should be to keep strategic communication with China going and the Belt and Road Forum meeting provides a useful opportunity.

 

[Star Expedition]

We will becoming worldwide power. This is the beginning.

 

[TaiShang]

But China all along refused to take ‘No’ for an answer from Japan. The AIIB has adopted what the bank’s president Jin Liqun calls the policies of “universal recruitment” and “universal procurement” – that is to say, to quote Jin,

• “The existing institutions only recruit nationals whose countries are the members. We recruit everyone from across the world… We don’t look at your passports. We look at your track record, professional and ethical integrity,” and, secondly,

Mr. Hatoyama, former PM of Japan, is on the board of the AIIB.

You can run, but you cannot hide, Japan. Sooner or later, you will embrace, or be embraced by China. As has been throughout history.

 

[iajj]

It is a program designed to dislodge the colonial and neocolonial economic infrastructure and ideological superstructure left in asia and Africa by europeans and jewry. So why would Europeans be interested? It is like inviting the jews to pay for the concentration camps!

Now, of course the jews did pay and labor for the building of their own death camps, but few European nations are as self-degraded as the jews in terms of willing contribution to their own demise