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Von: „Martin Zeis“ <Martin.zeis>
Datum: 30. März 2015 15:45:23 MESZ
An: gc-special-engl%Martin.zeis
Betreff: VISION AND ACTIONS ON JOINTLY BUILDING SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT AND 21ST-CENTURY MARITIME SILK ROAD; Boao Forum for Asia, March 29, 2015

Dear all,

as M.K. Bhadrakumar noticed, the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’-Document published by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China on the occasion of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2015 „is breathtakingly ambitious in scope“.

I recommend You the additional reading of the „Sixth BRICS Summit – Fortaleza Declaration“, July15, 2014*, to understand the strategic processes establishing a multipolar World Order without confronting the U.S. straightforward.

*http://brics6.itamaraty.gov.br/media2/press-releases

Best wishes,
Martin Zeis

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Asia Times, March 29, 2015 — http://atimes.com/2015/03/aiib-a-morality-play-for-india

AIIB: A morality play for India
Author: M.K. Bhadrakumar March 28, 2015

China’s foreign policy fired all eight cylinders on Saturday. There has been a stampede of countries wanting to be founder members of the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank [AIIB] – South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Netherlands, Switzerland, Georgia and so on. Even Taiwan — if only Beijing could find a way to admit an entity that it considers a part of China. Monday is the deadline for aspiring applicants.

Clearly, the United States’ ‘pivot’ to Asia is in trouble, big trouble, and without the pivot, there is uncertainty how a steady erosion in America’s standing in Asia can be averted. The US has been badly exposed as being at odds with the prevailing senti-ment in the Asian region. The AIIB has busted a hole into the US’ ‘pivot’ strategy through which even the Indian elephant can pass. A Trans-Pacific Partnership agree-ment with the obsessive idea of ‘containment’ of China seems more problematic than ever.

What has happened is seen as a policy failure on the part of the Barack Obama administration and a manifestation of the dysfunctional American political system whereby the Congress could stall for 4 years already the quota reform measure for the International Monetary Fund [IMF] that would have pacified China by granting it a greater voice in the fund. But then, there is much more to it. China is aiming at some-thing much bigger, much more profound in scope and objectives.

China is changing the balance of power in Asia itself. A historic power shift is under way. The document released in Beijing on Saturday on the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ is breathtakingly ambitious in scope. If half of what it says could be realized, China will have already risen as a great power on the world stage exclusively on terms it set and negotiates for itself.

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Bhadrakumar-AIIB-India’s-role150328.pdf
BOAO-FORUM_China-Silk-Road-Vision150328.pdf
BOAO-FORUM_-Xi-adress150328.pdf .pdf