{"id":6803,"date":"2015-03-25T05:43:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2015-03-25T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T10:43:46","slug":"westward-ho-on-chinas-eurasia-bric-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6803","title":{"rendered":"Westward ho on China\u2019s Eurasia BRIC road"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/atimes.com\/2015\/03\/westward-ho-on-chinas-eurasia-bric-road\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"entry-headline-text\">Westward ho on China\u2019s Eurasia BRIC road<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201c\u2026<em>it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger (to the U.S.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>emerges capable of dominating Eurasia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and thus also of challenging America<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s in a name, rather an ideogram? Everything. A single Chinese character \u2013 jie (for \u201cbetween\u201d) \u2013 graphically illustrates the key foreign policy initiative of the new Chinese dream.<\/p>\n<p>In the upper part of the four-stroke character \u2013 which, symbolically, should be read as the roof of a house \u2013 the stroke on the left means the Silk Road Economic Belt, and the stroke on the right means the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century Maritime Silk Road. In the lower part, the stroke on the left means the China-Pakistan corridor, via Xinjiang province, and the stroke on the right, the China-Myanmar-Bangladesh-India corridor via Yunnan province.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese culture feasts on myriad formulas, mottoes \u2013 and symbols. If many a Chinese scholar worries about how the Middle Kingdom\u2019s new intimation of soft power may be lost in translation, the character\u00a0<em>jie<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 pregnant with connectivity \u2013 is already the starting point to make 1.3 billion Chinese, plus the overseas Chinese diaspora, visualize the top twin axis \u2013 continental and naval \u2013 of the New Silk Road vision unveiled by President Xi Jinping, a concept also known as \u201cOne Road, One Belt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westward ho on China\u2019s Eurasia BRIC road \u201c\u2026it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger (to the U.S.) emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America\u201d Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997 What\u2019s in a name, rather an ideogram? Everything. A single Chinese character \u2013 jie (for \u201cbetween\u201d) \u2013 graphically illustrates the key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1860,130,2369],"class_list":["post-6803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-eurasia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}