Silk Road

Taking the Ancient Silk Road on the way to the new realities in a multipolar world

By Rhod Mackenzie Russia and Iran are prepared for mutually beneficial cooperation with all countries, particularly our neighbours. Central Asia is experiencing rapid development.  It is time for Europe to awaken to the current circumstances. These are the key themes of the XVI Verona Eurasian Economic Forum – a unique public platform facilitating communication between […]

Might Syria Become a Gateway of the New Silk Road with Assad-Xi Summit?

This week, President Bashar al Assad will be visiting Beijing on the direct invitation of President Xi Jinping and will be accompanied by a large economic delegation where the discussion of Syrian re-construction and integration into the Belt and Road initiative will be high on the agenda. Ever since President Bashar al-Assad first announced the Read More...

As Fires Burn Across Nagorno-Karabakh and Beyond, Wiser Heads Must Prevail

A wise American once said “We either hang together or we will certainly hang separately.”
When Ben Franklin spoke those words in 1776, the elder statesman was stating a simple truth that unless the early colonies overcame their differences, fears and prejudices to unite under a higher unifying self interest that transcended their “local” concerns, they would all be mutually destroyed.

New Silk Road and the Asian Century:  India, China and the Empire

          For the much of human history on planet earth – till the 18th century – India and China were the two largest economies in the world, who periodically interchanged the top position amongst themselves. This was mainly possible because of the ‘blessing from the heights’: first, the Tibetan Plateau – the largest water tank in the world from which[Read More...]

Lebanon: Pearl on the ‘New Silk Road’ or zone of dark-age chaos?

Matthew Ehret for Strategic Culture. Many voices have been quick to enter the chorus of commentators hypothesizing the manifold possible causes of the devastating explosions which occurred on the afternoon of August 4 in Beirut which has led to mass anarchy and the surprising resignation of the government on August 11th. While I have no great…

The Fall of Plahotniuc and a New Hope for Moldova

In June 2019, the small landlocked nation of Moldova found itself in a life or death struggle between two opposing futures: Oligarchs like the notorious Vladimir Plahotniuc had worked diligently for years to bring this nation into the hull of the collapsing NATO-EU Titanic while nationalists sought to re-align Moldova’s future with the new emerging Multipolar Alliance led by China and Russia.