The Great Game Changer: Belt and Road Intiative (BRI; OBOR)

[cirr]

I want to see 10000 cargo trains running annually between the EU and China by 2020.

 

[cloud4000]

I want to see 10000 cargo trains running annually between the EU and China by 2020.

Looks like more shipping lines will be going out of business like Hanjin...

 

[AndrewJin]

This is an important railway port at China-Kazakhstan border.

Alataw Pass

 

[Vigneshwara]

A "Junior Diplomat" to WITNESS the summit same old story=Indian style boycott like calling for boycotting Chinese goods last time

Either you do not understand the word "boycott" or you have not taken your medications.

 

[shjliu]

Either you do not understand the word "boycott" or you have not taken your medications.

please do explain your meaning of "boycott", set your definition here.

 

[Vigneshwara]

please do explain your meaning of "boycott", set your definition here.

BOYCOTT: withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest. But, India is sending a delegation howcome that is defined as "boycott".

 

[ito]

There is nothing that India will get from OBOR. India is well connected to the world as it sits in the midst of Indian ocean through which 60% of world trade flows.

 

[StraightShooter]

Which means either EU needs to mend its relations with Russia & Turkiye or China would have to use the sea route instead.

 

[Srinivas]

Which means either EU needs to mend its relations with Russia & Turkiye or China would have to use the sea route instead.

Chinese are loosing manufacturing edge, I doubt the numbers.

 

[StraightShooter]

Chinese are loosing manufacturing edge, I doubt the numbers.

Its not so much that China is loosing the manufacturing edge but it is the advent of the new manufacturing age with robotics and 3D printing technologies which are making the old way of labor intensive manufacturing obsolete.

West would be in-sourcing those manufacturing plants to their shores but will only bring back fraction of the jobs that were outsourced decades ago due to automation while China would have the manufacturing technology but needs to find new markets in emerging world.

 

[Srinivas]

Its not so much that China is loosing the manufacturing edge but it is the advent of the new manufacturing age with robotics and 3D printing technologies which are making the old way of labor intensive manufacturing obsolete.

West would be in-sourcing those manufacturing plants to their shores but will only bring back fraction of the jobs that were outsourced decades ago due to automation while China would have the manufacturing technology but needs to find new markets in emerging world.

It takes atleast 10 to 15 years for robots to mature, not all goods can be produced by robots.

 

[Chhatrapati]

There is already a thread running about this. @The Eagle @waz Please merge it with the main thread
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/india-to-skip-obor-forum.495476/

 

[shjliu]

BOYCOTT: withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest. But, India is sending a delegation howcome that is defined as "boycott".

so India did not Boycott China's OBOR?

 

[Riz]

What else they can do? Pak and China really hurting them badly, they have very little options left as USA also announced to participate CPEC, we likely to see more chines and world powers investment in Kashmir, one day there will be no option left other than participate in OBOR..

 

[Chhatrapati]

BOYCOTT: withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest. But, India is sending a delegation howcome that is defined as "boycott".

Can you put a source to your claim? may be I missed that news.