Peter Nolan on China's silk road strategy

Keynote held on 7th April 2016 at the wiiw Spring Seminar in Vienna. Peter Nolan is Professor at Cambridge University. Further information on the wiiw Spring Seminar 2016 can be found here: wiiw.ac.at/european-integratio...

[@peterwang5196]

Deeply impressed, professor, I didn't expect you, as a westerner, can frame Chinese evolution so well in the historical context, salute!

[@TheRealIronMan]

Woooow, Im amazed, I have been living in China for more than a decade, this lecture is as good as it gets, its extremely accurate to a point I think he got Chinese ghost writers helping him, just kidding~ Out of the dozens of lectures about China on KZbin I have watched so far, this is the ONLY one that reflects the reality in China.

[@saraishinkai15]

Tony Stark .Are you Chinese

[@linyonglan]

Please, stay in China.

[@woshilinyunfei]

Professor Nolan sure knows much more than I have. Thank you for this enlightenment.

[@kawaiamm]

Amazing lecture and great teacher. Thank you Professor Nolan.

[@yttean98]

One of the most interesting lectures I come across on youtube.

[@czzhou3918]

thank you professor! thank you ! thank you for the understanding. touched deeply by your emotion on the 731 part. Long live the peace

[@wallylee8470]

Excellent, non bias information about China's history... very educational.

[@Vulpeculah]

very good lecture!!! Professor Nolan does know China. This is also the real China we Chinese understand about. Western media and politicians demonize China too much!!

[@getstarted5080]

A truly masterful talk about China's cultural and historical view and its relevance to today's geopolitical and economic landscape. Simply breathtaking in its scope in just one hour of lecture.

[@byrds2011]

One of the most insightful and inspiring talk I've heard from Mr Peter Nolan for a long time. After learning and discovering China's history, one would be able to see the reason why the Chinese leaders are doing what they do today. Would anyone in the world do any better or differently? I doubt it. It'd be easier said than done anyway and hindsight is 20/20. Good to see the Chinese finally back on track and working towards their destiny after 150 years of disruption.

[@saraishinkai15]

Bear-Hugger .hope the world is free from Zionist and other secret world domination cult

[@ezlive8781]

Thank you Professor Nolan for the great lecture !

[@humblehouse]

Thank you @ The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies for organising and uploading this lecture. It provides a most refreshing Western perspective on China matters from an very accomplished academic (Professor Martin Jacques is another one who comes to mind). I was especially moved by the brief (but restrained in a very typical British manner) display of emotions when he held up the extremely distasteful photo of the Japanese PM in a '731' (for anyone who is unsure of the significance of the number, goggle 'unit 731' and be prepared to be disgusted and horrified by the actions of the Japanese army on Chinese, Koreans, Russians as test subjects on germ/biological warfare during World War 2) fighter plane of the Financial Times. If there is any area for nit-picking, I would say that it is the lack of clear maps and other visual illustrations of the important places / objects that he mentioned. Being an Asian, I have no problems in visualising and identifying them but for many Europeans in the audience, they might not be able to connect with them readily. Otherwise, it has been very enlightening lecture. Thank you, again.

[@pranav377]

nice lecture, informative about China which we normally don't know from media.

[@chunglli8946]

ravi kumthekar 

[@fooksengloke3625]

Resist THIS Leftists and Establishment Swamp As China controls the water from the Himalayas, flowing into the Ganges and the Indus, India could be the country to be flooded if China is angry with its neighbour.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@fooksengloke3625 The prospect of cooperation seems to scare Western Powers, more than conflict in the High Country..... The clear benefits to merchants of exploiting cheap labor in Asia has become something worse than most conflicts between Nations.....

[@jiuntingyong88]

@@danielhutchinson6604 Unfortunately, China is exploiting the labour that is low cost, we can go to Africa where cheap labour and cheap raw materials were exploited by China.

[@jiuntingyong88]

However, it failed to recognised the problem of Chinese economy, 1) debts which are unsustainable and mishandlement, 2) demography crisis, China is facing a looming greying population, and they failed to address it, and 3) Lack of economic development in the Northeast.

[@janwillem1246]

I really enjoyed this talk!

[@grazzitdvram]

This was excellent and quite informative, thank you very much for sharing

[@linyang9890]

Agreed. It can be a win-win situation, only most Americans lock their mind in the dark box of zero-sum game belief. Fear comes from ignorance. In the case of America, arrogance as well.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

Exploiting cheap Asian labor seems to be a Colonial tradition. The US Merchants enjoy the profits available from this effort. The World seems to watch in disbelief as the power players arrange the Propaganda to convince the consumers that all problems originate outside the Walls of the US Border.....

[@lowcc7602]

731 a masscacre by Japanese. As of today no punishment had been meted out to this massive atrocities and the failure on US part to bring justice to the event. Silk road building is partly a continuation which were left behind thousand year ago and to bring development and uplift standard of living along the way.

[@zhangdayu2206]

cuz the japanese plays such a good puppy to its master westerners.

[@wizard5141]

Believing cheep & stupid propaganda is really Chinese/Koreans of you!

[@percybukes8112]

Very Insightful history that i don't believe many know. Thank you.

[@derozonlang9173]

Amazing lecture! Unbiased, informative, and history-based! China has suffered from the western world's defamation, humiliation, and exploitation for more than a century. Thanks, professor Nolan! You make me feel what truth is real.

[@sufawu9272]

Thank you. I will remember this talk.

[@tangbesitangbesi7009]

Mr Peter Nolan is indeed an authority on China, he should be heard even today

[@BlessAllKC]

Thank you very much for sharing this insightful, excellently researched & highly informative lecture ! Is there a Question & Answer session afterwards? If so, would you mind posting it so that we can learn more from the audience's thoughts?

[@WiiwAcAt]

Unfortunately the Q&A session of this panel has not been filmed.

[@curtiswang8448]

This talk of insight enlighten me greatly and I would think China is unique in the way only her long history can explain why her people is unique,,

[@vivavoce4823]

Very insightful speech!

[@kamchin5369]

This was a very important lecture on Chinese history in relationship to world history.

[@chfgbp6098]

impressive CV

[@mohanphuyal7507]

like this professor

[@Alex-iw8tz]

I have same views that Europe Union is trying to do something Rome failed to do but China had finished to do 2000 years ago, that is the thing that West and East began to be different .

[@akjw9383]

This is a surprisingly good speech on China, by a non-Chinese. I’m really impressed. I hope there will be more people trying to seriously understand China and the one belt one road initiative.

[@wangxuejun4853]

What an impressive lecture, the professor knows Chinese philosophy👍

[@jianwen5760321]

The Nolan brothers are everywhere!

[@capdriving]

great historic video,

[@alextann1457]

Enlightening talk. The Nikkei takeover of FT and the FT article with the cartoon picture of a plane with 731 painted on it to denote Unit 731 is disturbing. Worth checking out Unit 731, if you haven't already.

[@hoalex5329]

We know about silk road transliteration as 一帶一路. The Chinese phase has significant meaning in economic strategies including the development of infrastructure cooperation with korsan region. From north west china routes to the end of central of Europe, Czechslovenia. On sea route is from fukian, china to the eastern Africa. This long term policy is very vast development participation with many countries. Basically the infrastructure requires financial facilities, Hong Kong will be properly the financial role player in this program. It is difficult to estimate how long time to implement this strategy economy but china is able to accomplish the whole endurance running year by year as the building great wall. China is dreaming to create the historical miracle. We have to look forward how Chinese people can successfully achieve. The last, china of course will face the traumatic difficulties and problems in this biggest economic development in the world.

[@linyang9890]

I agree with you except the role of HK as financial facilitator. HK could have a chance which got thrown away by the hostile sentiment toward the mainland in recent years. HK is not really participating in the massif implementation of One Belt One Road strategy so far other than its coming minor stake in AIIB. HK is heading to a wrong direction by the choice of HK people. Democracy does not always serve people's best interests. It's sad to see that because I really like HK for its efficiency.

[@jiuntingyong88]

I don't agree with you. HK is doing find before Xi rise to power and thanks to Xi, he messed HK and Taiwan. The Taiwanese and HK don't need China because they are known as Hong Kong and Taiwanese citizen just Europeans reached the New World where they don't call themselves German, English, Scotsman etc but only America. Before China really opened up to the outside world, Taiwan already represented China in the UN while HK an Asian financial centre, yet China never really appreciated Taiwanese and HK people for their promoting positive images of the morality and ethical of traditional values of the Confucian that a typical China man had forgotten where they had being suppressed by Chairman Mao so I don't China really have the right to usurp the concept that 'One China' because they are no such thing whereby to me China is just like a childish just because of the words 'China is the birthplace of the Huaxia and it must be only China is the real protector and the preserver of the Huaxia for last 5000 years'. I don't buy into that where Confucian values are highly regarded by Japanese, Taiwanese and HK.

[@chfgbp6098]

jiun ting yong : sure. blame others. very grown up of u.

[@woodensurfer]

Hong Kong was doing well before some radicals there started to struggle for less.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@jiuntingyong88 Pacific Rim Colonies of US and UK seem to reflect the needs of the investors who sponsor them? You know, the Profit Seekers?

[@charleswilson8038]

there is now no orther way but a win win solution for this world. live together or die together.

[@rgandblue]

Charles Wilson I think we are going to die together as written in the book of revealation. Just look at how much hatred in this world, brother against brother, nation against nation.

[@FreeMusicDownloaderAllMusic]

Very Good Partner;)

[@mattslowikowski3530]

New Zealand, 6.7 million??

[@zhangdayu2206]

gotta say it is one of the best, but have to point out for the professor though, that it is not that unknown as to when Buddhism came into China, it was the mid-late East Han Dynasty. And Buddhism, much like many religious belief, got kick in the ass one in a while when they tried to get political. Tang Dynasty, anti Buddhism, however, is rumored, and that is just one explanations, is that because of the vast building of temples, the government went short of gold, cuz too much gold was grounded up and donated to build buddha's sculpture.

[@eulermeow]

The volume is a bit low. But nice lecture anyway.

[@lunap6343]

Wow, impressive, but some comments in Korean are quite interesting, seems they really approve of their Japanese master.

[@nitinbhasin8898]

Good explanation of Chinese perspective. But international projects needs to accommodate multi-lateral perspectives which seems to be the sticking point in Chinese approach.

[@jeltan7887]

Hi, thats how the Western mind works. Tang Dynasty Chinese works differently. With very strong values in Confucius values, Buddhism and Lao Zi, Tang Dynasty Chinese really practised such profound values. Gun powder, Paper technology to record and pass down all knowledge, not using stones and wood by Europeans. All those = given free to all Europeans. No royalty fee, no patent fee, no copyright fee, no technical fee. Or else, the West would take super long time to catch up. Such values are considered very profound in today Western- dominated economical values. 中國思想 博大精深不是沒有原因的.

[@okramronan]

very impformative lecture ...so glad to hear some logic finally...after all the propaganda driven tv channel news..ranting about china

[@chunglee6895]

To predict what will happens for the next 100 years from what you learn the past 100,000 years is an ridiculous notion

[@basilrazabutt9418]

Wow! This is what should be getting a million views, not some crazy TRUMPetering by unwise bureaucrats 😁 Amazing lecture!

[@cross5269]

are there any comments here not from CCP bots/trolls?

[@henrysimpson3505]

This boys nose!

[@MinhLe-vj9ij]

I firmly believe that the presenter has received commission from China.

[@ammarmateen3184]

😀

[@LongLiveKingCharles]

Mr. Nolan those scientist you mention were iranian, may have been Muslims. Islam didn't have anything to do with it. As you know all the other Muslim nations hardly produced any scientist, in particular Saudi Arabia which is the birth place of Islam has never had any scientist.

[@mrshangpa]

H Mo Persians had great contributions to human civilization ... al-Khwarizmi ... Omar Khayyam ... to cite a few great intellectuals. I'm not sure but I believe that they also drew nutrition from ancient Indian civilization.

[@jeltan7887]

Hi, thats how the Western mind works. Tang Dynasty Chinese works differently. With very strong values in Confucius values, Buddhism and Lao Zi, Tang Dynasty Chinese really practised such profound values. Gun powder, Paper technology to record and pass down all knowledge, not using stones and wood by Europeans. All those = given free to all Europeans. No royalty fee, no patent fee, no copyright fee, no technical fee. Or else, the West would take super long time to catch up. Such values are considered very profound in today Western- dominated economical values. 中國思想 博大精深不是沒有原因的.

[@sargakumari7825]

Just reading in telegraph that Cambridge China centre headed by this prof directly accepts donations from Chinese state bodies. Being bought for £200000!! At least hold out for a few million!

[@simchun_p402]

수많은 우마오당이 득실대는구나.. 50 Cent Party !!!!

[@craigkdillon]

Saying that England & Netherlands & China were at similar level of development in 1800 is wrong, I believe. England, Netherlands, US, Germany, etc had high rates of literacy. I don't believe China had anything close to 90% literacy.

[@alesh2275]

This was published 2016 and I’m watching this January 2022. Very dated already. Hasn’t aged very well.

[@aryankarki7900]

Buddha was Born in Nepal not India.

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

OBOR is a trap created by China to export its cement, steel and building materials and particularly it unemployed labourers. China has overproduced steel, cement and other building materials which it can not export easily. Through OBOR it can and at the same time it can export its surplus labourers. Look at Pakistan. At least 80,000 Chinese workers are there already. Pakistan imported cement, steel and building materials from China on credit. Any country that would join OBOR programme will suffer in the same way as Pakistan.

[@ahmedbaradwan6619]

من حديثه فإنك تشم الرائحة الغير مرغوب بها من الغرب وخاصة بريطانيا التاج الذي غابت عنه الشمس وخوفهم من ان يصبحوا مستعمرات صينية. علما بأن الصين لم يكن في حسابها ذلك كل ما يهم الصين ضمان العيش الشريف والأمن لي ١،٤ مليار من البشر. هذا هو يستخدم الديانة في تخويف العالم من الصين.

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

China had over invested and over produced steel, cements, building materials, which it wants to dump on other countries. That is the reason it has created International Infrastructure Bank and One Belt One Road scheme, so that it gives loans in kind to Pakistan, Turkey, Africa, and in future China will demand payments in Dollar money. .Both serves the purpose of China and every other countries get cheated.

[@michelng5630]

Buddhism is not a religion. Buddha never claimed to be a god.

[@ahasanhabib9940]

why you are west times and publicity better than u do something ?

[@abhijitraorane1877]

china wants Eu broken up....He got it wrong!

[@paulryan1745]

You are wrong and narrow minded. This will be win-win situations

[@abhijitraorane1877]

Paul Ryan lets c..if e.u breaks up or not!

[@shirleywang8994]

abhijit raorane eu breaks up or not, depends on eu itself, not on china. we dont want to see eu break. u will get poorer to to afford chinese goods.

[@shirleywang8994]

abhijit raorane eu breaks up or not, depends on eu itself, not on china. we dont want to see eu break. u will get poorer to to afford chinese goods.

[@abhijitraorane1877]

Shirley Wang tht we will c wat deceptive dragon does. U think EU systm owners welcom china's developmnt of OBOR(silk ROUTE). Broken EU z wat in china's interest whch it wil pursue covertly...as u.s covertly broke USSR

[@28richfield]

I like the Chinese Silk Road idea because a lot of the worker who build the road and highway , some of them will end up in other countries. They will enjoy the free democracy of the the west. They'll have the chance to decide to stay or go back to China