The Struggle for who would be world power in 100 years is far more important that who is currently wielding it. With this goal, a lot of countries including the US who currently stands as world power is in a tussle as well as it is creating a shield against anyone who plans to come up. Countries like China has been in the forefront, fighting to get hold of this title and even when it is not done any physical wars, a lot of projects are in progress to make sure that the world depends on them.
Do you remember the Chinese Silk Road? Yes the trade network that connects all part of the world to China. Why this was done in the past by china, it is starting to do it again but this time it is taking responsibility of constructing the road.
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China has been constructing a lot of railways, bridges, roads, ports and many more to make sure that the Silk Road is a possibility but they are not just constructing this infrastructures in all countries but rather they are using a very organized network which will connect china to every part of the world with ease. Currently, over 70 countries are already part of China’s great plan. The Europe is one of them with ports like Piraeus in Greece being owned (maybe I should say lease) by the Chinese government.
Although, the Coronavirus showed that the Chinese trade network was important as China made use of most of its already existing network to send aids and personnel to different countries. Some people saw it as China being good and being a savior, others saw it as China testing their power. You could tell that China was everywhere during the pandemic trying to help with medical helps around the world. In Europe, china has done a lot of business with so many European countries including Germany Holland, France, Belgium, UK, Spain, and Istanbul, Malta and so on.
China’s speed to becoming the world’s economic power is very fast and it is disturbing to a lot of countries but China has always found its way to get a win-win negotiation with these countries which then often gives them the ability to build their trade network.
Do you think China will be able to complete the Silk Road project?
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-new-silk-road-explainer/