Category: New Silk Road / BRI updates

Updates about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (a.k.a. The New Silk Road)

Schiller Institute Seminar: The Role of the Belt & Road in Peace and Stability in West Asia & Africa

by Jason RossGeneral, Germany SI activity, New Silk Road / BRI updates, Our economic development events

The Schiller Institute hosted a high-level seminar in Berlin, Germany on August 29 to provide a report on the true significance and substantial progress of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), especially regarding developments in Southwest Asia and Africa. Forty-five people attended, including representatives of Germany’s Mittelstand (small and medium-sized industries), the diplomatic community, and other […]

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France and the Maritime Silk Road: Past, Present and Future

by Jason RossFrance SI activity, New Silk Road / BRI updates, Our economic development events, World Land-Bridge updates

The July 2 Schiller Institute conference, “France and the Maritime Silk Road: Past, Present, and Future,” held in Nantes, was a major intervention on a hot topic: France has a maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 10 million square kilometers and the world’s second largest maritime economic area. Nantes—a port city of 900,000 on the Atlantic […]

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Schiller Institut⁠e⁠ in China⁠—Xinjiang Province: China Rejects All Accusations

by Jason RossActivity of the Schiller Institute, Asia (Central & Northern) SI activity, France SI activity, General, New Silk Road / BRI updates

by Christine Bierre, Bierrechristine@gmail.com Hardly had the breakthroughs of the Xi-Trump meeting occurred at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan than London and its neo-conservative allies, in and out of the Trump administration, escalated a new flank in the war of nerves against China. Following the demonization of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by London’s […]

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Schiller Institute Invited to 2nd Wanshou Dialogue for Global Security

by Jason RossBRICS updates, Media coverage of our activity, New financial order updates, New Silk Road / BRI updates, Space updates, Sweden SI activity, World war danger updates

by Ulf Sandmark, ulf.sandmark@nysol.se Because of the disorder in international relations many new formats for discussion and dialogue are developed to figure out what to do about the dangerous world security situation. The Wanshou Dialogue for Global Security was started last year by the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, which is an organization founded […]

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Schiller Institute participates in Symposium with Egyptian Consulate in Houston

by Jason RossGeneral, Houston SI activity, New financial order updates, New Silk Road / BRI updates, Our cultural events

On Thursday evening, June 27, 2019, the Egyptian Consulate of Houston sponsored a symposium at the Arab American Cultural & Community Center in Houston, Texas. The Egyptian Consulate requested that the Schiller Institute co-sponsor the event with them. The theme of the Symposium was “Egypt after the Revolution.” The guests in attendance for the event included […]

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Amidst US/China Tensions, Schiller Institute Holds “Win-Win” Forum on BRI in Los Angeles

by Jason RossGeneral, Helga statement, article, transcript, Los Angeles SI activity, New Silk Road / BRI updates, Our cultural events, Our economic development events, World Land-Bridge updates

In the midst of a flare-up of tensions between the US and China, sparked by the Anglo-American establishment’s fierce commitment to drive a wedge between the two nations, the Schiller Institute held a forum on June 15 in the Los Angeles area to promote the idea of cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). […]

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Xi Jinping to G20: BRI Is Open to All Nations To Boost Development & as a Platform for International Cooperation

by Jason RossNew financial order updates, New Silk Road / BRI updates

Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan on both June 28 and June 29. According to a summary paraphrase provided by Xinhua, Xi used his June 29 speech to forcefully reaffirm that “the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is open for all parties to achieve shared development.” “Chinese President Xi Jinping […]

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Schiller Institute Honored at San Francisco Chinese Consulate

by Jason RossNew Silk Road / BRI updates, Our cultural events, Our musical events, San Francisco Bay Area SI activity

On June 27, 2019, the Schiller Institute was invited to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to honor the life of the great American Statesman Lyndon LaRouche, and to celebrate the common aims of both nations and cultures.   Everyone who attended the Open House in Honor of the Schiller Institute—as each of the three large […]

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Schiller Institute’s Sébastien Périmony Goes to Ivory Coast & Angola

by Jason RossAfrica (Subsaharan) SI activity, General, New financial order updates, New Silk Road / BRI updates, Our economic development events

by Sébastien Périmony, @SebPerimony   Saturday, June 15, 2019, a conference on the New Silk Road was held at the headquarters of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace Research in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast. This conference, organized by the Association pour la Sauvegarde et la Promotion de la Pensée d’El Adj-Boubacar Gamby Sakho (ASPP-BGS) in partnership with the Foundation […]

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China Daily Reports on Los Angeles Schiller Institute Forum

by Jason RossMedia coverage of our activity, New Silk Road / BRI updates

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, president of the Schiller Institute international think tank, “urged the U.S. to join the Belt and Road Initiative during a forum that shed light on the principles and scope of China-proposed global development initiative,” China Daily, the national English-language newspaper, reported Tuesday. China Daily cited Zepp-LaRouche’s videotaped message to the forum held by the […]

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