The New Silk Road: Ambition and Opportunity | CNBC

Dr. May-yi Shaw explores the revival of the ancient Silk Road, meeting businesses and entrepreneurs looking to benefit from the trillions of dollars of spending, in this first phase of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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[@caresarjuniors4772]

We Nepali and Nepal 🇳🇵 fully support BRI . hope it will progress all Asia and beyond. China is Hope

[@MN16304]

No, ComChi. China destroyed the world with coronavirus.

[@hairybananaangry239]

every country should work together make earth a better place.

[@hairybananaangry239]

@Fail Zero yep. just like make America great again. lol

[@tomasviane3844]

We already know who's going to benfit from this and it's not going to be you nor me.

[@countryballs2005]

@Biên Hòa Memories not with bomb too

[@rosemaryhusin4440]

@@hairybananaangry239 not possible. china wants to earn money by exploiting the natural resources of the countrynthey are dealing with. the citizens of the country they are dealing with hardly benefit from these projects. labor practices wages, social services like education, health, etc., that's definitely not working together! interests are not the same.

[@XnonXte]

I love your comment mate, These day finding a positive comment is kinda hard on KZbin comment Section

[@kko-punch7059]

Regardless how some countries interpreted China ambitions China has been influential and beneficial to global economy in many ways. They are not stopping regardless how hard the US tried to contain them and put any effort to influence the world how bad China is, China marches on without threatening anybody with military might instead China threw in billions of dollars to create this initiative to create prosperity and opportunities for its neighbouring countries. That is impressive. The world needs to look at China in a positive way and join hands to create a better, a more peaceful and cooperative environment for the world.

[@Userkzb20253]

This is lot more realistic way to report BRI than most sensational western media. This episode is about ‘hope’ in BRI. Hope to see an episode on ‘risk’ of BRI and one on ‘geopolitical’ implications from the same Professor.

[@mahmir]

we will look forward to welcome Chinese friends in Iran. Lets revive the silk road again together.

[@toddharig8142]

Watch out for them mongols...

[@eruetifoster6184]

Mahmood get rid of your theocratic government first they will steal the goods coming through Iran. The Ayatollah's have 1 goal to Islamise the world.

[@stefanzheng6145]

then US captured Huawei‘s CFO..........

[@spaceorbison]

yes you can be under communism and be killed by government whenever they want

[@user-zo8hs4yh2h]

My ancestors were from Iran. We're arab/Iranian. They migrated from there across China to Malaysia. Now we're ethnic Chinese but look a bit Iranian. Just a bit.

[@Owleyes2019]

For seventy years after WW2 the west had their chance to help third world countries to develop. However, they were instead being suppressed, bombed, controlled by the west. Now the opportunity has come with the BRI to bring prosperity and lift millions out of poverty,.

[@annyoung7853]

Owleyes have fun in your fantasy land. Those third world countries are kicking out white farmers in Africa and threatening their lives. They have even threatened their pets lives. But you think they will accept Chinese as if you are magical people?

[@workeveryday8737]

@@annyoung7853 we are magical people. We bring business and money. Not guns, death and rape.

[@shahmeerhyat]

Ann Young bye bye no want likes you here please go back

[@ricardogamis9527]

So pillaging and exploiting by the US, will be exchanged for Chinese one? Let’s all meet back in seven decades and see how it goes

[@libanwarsame5428]

I found this documentary informative, perspective and objective. Indeed China has a vibrant economic initiative in the BRI that could take human ingenuity and economic pluralism to another level. Kudos to the wonderful people behind this project.

[@kobebrian7249]

Chinese people are friendly and peaceful, period

[@NursultanSulaimanov]

Great Documentary, thanks for visiting Kyrgyzstan - the most open and beautiful country of Central Asia. Hopefully BRI will take off and Kyrgyz people representing IT industry, like myself, are ready to make their own contribution. We, at Kyrgyzstan only wish success to our great neighbor Zhongguo!

[@whatever9506]

it's the first time i hear about your country

[@whatever9506]

KZnaiman888 i know your country. You have great natural landscapes

[@whatever9506]

KZnaiman888 yea i know 😥. And corruption. That's what hold you back guys. You have huge potential.

[@whatever9506]

KZnaiman888 I'm lebanese living in Turkey

[@whatever9506]

KZnaiman888 yea we have good democracy. But we have a lot of corruption. In the next elections (after 17 days i think) we want to punish all the current politicians.

[@Elliott_Elliott]

24:20 absolute hero!! Love it!

[@yigo1010]

We ethiopians stand with China for the brighter future of the world

[@no_alias_for_me]

Didn't China invest billions of dollars over there just to build stuff with their own people instead of giving Ethiopians a job?

[@avinashchavan7531]

Yes, traitor Tedros belongs to you !! Who gave world deadly COVID , being puppet of China

[@007JB]

China will teach ethiopians hard work and pay them a bowl of rice a day for their work

[@venjcaoili4853]

Full.of emotions gained from and through watching this. Dr.May yi Shaw narratives are explicit..

[@robertlura3914]

I love this. China and the BRI will bring massive progress to many Asian countries. The future for Asia is bright and I hope and believe that this will benefit the world during the next few decades.

[@Diwana71]

Great documentary. Anthony Morse - your conclusions are very true. From a China Studies person - I too agree that Sino-Russian Relations are much more than the usual interstate interactions of hard power or soft power - there is an emotional aspect to it.

[@mingyuhuang8944]

I think cnbc is the only mainstream American media which is not retardedly biased and slanderous towards China. And for that, I applaud you guys. Thank you keeping real quality media alive and real journalism alive. So as to let Americans and English speaking people across truly understand the realities of what's going on and not be brainwashed by false information.

[@titobaskoro8985]

Jack is making me cry. Good job jack. Just well done

[@GoshaSandhu1]

Yayyyy that’s my university HKUST! and about belt and road project i would say its an opportunity for every country to grow by being part of it rather than just hating on it, and some are saying China is conquering others, so what? Compete if you can or get your share from it, at least they are not trying to conquer by force or killing innocents like others. Doing business in peace ✌🏼

[@rongwang9400]

you are right❤️

[@workeveryday8737]

No chance. The Americans will find a bullshit excuse like there's oil under the new Silk road and yea a random ship sinked Wala a reason to "fight for freedom"

[@no_alias_for_me]

So far what they did is putting developing countries under debt which these countries can't pay because they keep increasing fees which ultimately results in giving China a good chunk of land instead. It might doesn't involve forceful overtaking but it doesn't matter really in which way they acquire control over other countries. Just saying. Soon whole SEA will be China and the regime isn't known for tolerating other ethnics or religions.

[@jesuskistus3555]

ShaRk. Well it’s a project for rich countries

[@no_alias_for_me]

@@jesuskistus3555 No, it's a project for China. Sri Lanka ended up giving them land because the fees were too high. Ethiopia thought they gonna get lots of projects were Ethiopians will have jobs but these jobs are for Chinese people only (they literally said "We will give you jobs with these projects" and in the end they said they are not qualified enough). Rich countries like Italy (I know their economy is in pieces but globally speaking they are still quite rich) sold ports and shit to China and now they control their ex- and import. I don't think people in the West realize how much control this regime got over the past 3 decades or so.

[@matchbox555]

The Belt and Road initiative is the greatest development project in history. Go China!

[@waldentaylor386]

It's nice to see all the countries connect each other by Silk Road and do business.

[@peterwang5196]

Even if the BRI project partially succeeds, it is a good opportunity for all countries involved.

[@ss12363]

good luck paying billions of loans back

[@mayachatterjee2336]

I agree.

[@mayachatterjee2336]

Sent this by mistake. I agreed with the previous comment. Sorry!

[@Atipat12]

Yes

[@ckcskendre]

Bruce Yan transparency in bidding process. Not only Chinese businesses man allowed but also give chances to all countries. So there is no suspicious about projects. If only Chinese have all stake in projects. And you expect all countries are stupid enough to know that. Grow up. First make obor as multinational projects with all nations have stake in that. Not only Chinese people or there government.

[@timber2533]

All I can say is bye bye America winning a war is not only about big guns and bullets.

[@bryangrogan1039]

BRI finally helps to link up poor Asian and African countries with the world and gives them the opportunity to trade their indigenous produce with other countries, besides many other national benefits like easier transportation. It is also to China's advantage, but what is so bad about a win-win situation?

[@Fightback2023]

The new silk road is a new way to expand China's export business. Currently US is the biggest importer of China's export goods, therefore it would be hard to deviate itself from the US dollars but with the new silk road, China is trying to expand it's clienteles away from the US market. Once it is developed, China will move away from the petro-dollar, which will be the final days of the US printing press. US will file bankruptcy so fast, the americans won't even know what hit them.

[@truthteller678]

Obi2 don’t think it’s gonna work out that way. The USA doesn’t need the rest of the outer world. It has nafta which is the largest free trade zone in the world in North America. It has the best geography and good outlook when it comes to demography. The USA is already a rich country with top university and top A.I. , tech sector, and financial sector in the world. USA will be just fine.

[@steph.mere.4529]

@Komorebi23 all countries seems the same.

[@lybovsemenowa4070]

August 23, 2019 45th President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump posted the following posts on twitter @realDonaldTrump Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far.... ....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..

[@lybovsemenowa4070]

The withdrawal of US and European countries from China, which will result from breaking production chains during the epidemic and the policy of “punishing” China for hiding information about the epidemic, as well as reduce global shipping.

[@Fightback2023]

@@lybovsemenowa4070 Hiding information? Informing WHO and disclosing the genome sequence of the Covid-19 to US is considering hiding information? Shutting down the whole country is hiding information? US and rest of the world watched and laughed when they could get prepared. Don't play the blame game, unless your country has shown they could had done better, if they did we wouldn't be having this argument.

[@mrebholz]

Competitive advantage: we don't have oil, we have to use our brain. 💡

[@MrKannibalus]

And they are absolutely correct. The bedouins never developed their brain, they rely 100% on their oil. Once its depleted they are completely trashed.

[@artbyhe1524]

This is awesome story about China.

[@dominicchanwenshun]

Wow! It's a wonderful documentary. As long as China is "open" and there's equitable opportunities, I think BRI or OBOR, is the game changer for Asia, Africa, and Europe.

[@lexburen5932]

And russia also.

[@vkninedragon6236]

I think central Asia benefit the most from one belt-one-road because central Asia is pretty much in the center of everything in turn of distance.

[@svenfrontin-rollet8469]

Thanks for this video... I really enjoyed it.. right on the ideas .. amazing and ambition

[@mustafagenius2110]

Please stop compering Silk road to Marshall plan,,belt and road initiative is hundred times bigger than Marshall plan which only focused few countries including Germany, France after world war 2

[@themiddlekingdom9121]

@Heather Larson, Mustafa Genius is right. Marshal Plan was the white American wanted to help their fellow white people in Europe after WWII, it was completely differences as compare to the Belt and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative is purely based on trades and businesses opportunities; it is benefits for Asian people, European people and African people, no militaries and no politics involve. And it is 1000 times bigger than Marshal Plan. Show less REPLY

[@chaorommel1204]

Mustafa Genius cuz this is a video made by American,you see

[@wisdomleader85]

That's a rather incomprehensive view over the Marshall plan. "Foreign Assistance Act of 1948", or "Marshall Plan" as we know it, was authorized under the previously formulated "Foreign Aid Act of 1947", for which China(KMT) and South Korea were also covered by financial aids.

[@wisdomleader85]

Giacc S The original silk road wasn't directly driven by the Chinese government, although we could say that the military expansion into central Asia(for the proclaimed Chinese national security) set the path for it.

[@manipurextremz]

Mustafa Genius you hate US so badly.. surely you doesn't belong to China. Your country might have screwed up by US..

[@o-ls4em]

Great opportunity for emerging countries.

[@eekout2038]

Amazing Learned a lot . Well done .

[@dreamwonders6091]

Keep up The Great work!

[@bertiewooster4043]

She asked about building a city in the middle of nowhere in a desert and how smart that was. I guess she has never been to Las Vegas!

[@suryatjandra7120]

Las Vegas will soon end as the lake dried out for wasting water for watering golf course & dancing fountain. Not agriculture.

[@bobbymanganaro]

Vegas has water. Were next to a river. Please know what your talking about first. We also save water on a scale most cities only dream of. Its california that wastes water they grow horse feed in the desert.

[@bobbymanganaro]

@@DarthGluttanous vegas isnnext to a river. Theres no reason to be sorry. People have no clue what they are talking about. Vegas has been water smart for 30.years. And continues to save water. Which is why other cities come to Vegas to learn how to save water. California wastes more water than any other state.

[@filipyew6906]

I have been to Las Vegas, I am an Aussie. You have a narrow view of Asia. Open your eyes, Las Vegas is a desert town!

[@bobbymanganaro]

@@filipyew6906 been to isnt the same as living there

[@ChinLyeCheng]

It is hardly to find in human history who can lead the world to develop such a project like this which can benefit to the world.Many underdeveloped countries in this project are really hope to see it success because there are abundant of educated young generation have the capability but never get opportunity to deploy their skill.Of cause some countries will fail and some will succeed because of human factor like politic,cultural, rules,regulation differences,these are all human made you can change or not to change it is all in your hand.If you have a better deal then you offer it the whole world is waiting.We no need noise.

[@chunmeiluo2796]

Great documentary!

[@georglp3006]

Great Documentary

[@ongjosh1]

Prosper thy neighbors and a good future for all!

[@magellanmax]

Great initiative!

[@jamalhamzah1141]

I am preparing spices production, the contribution to silk road future activity

[@plb475]

People live near the Silk Road don’t just get electricity, maybe a fridge and tv as living standards improve, a win for humanity.

[@sorkhan9797]

One of the most important junction of BRI is Gawadar port, which is a beacon of light and hope in this whole project of BRI.

[@andyzhao8204]

sor khan True.Thank you Pakistan.Love from China.

[@dct4lif]

President Xi Jingpin is a GENIUS I hope China elects him to be president for life. We need another superpower to counter the US wicked ways especially in the Middle East

[@toddharig8142]

hahhahahaha "Elect", dont worry, hes not going anywhere.

[@jtien473]

Xi will serve his party for lifetime, followed by a corrupted communist party on the superpower that eventually will destroy itself. He can fool some people, including you apparently, for some time, but cannot fool all the people for all the time.

[@izquierda3326]

Fuck IsraHELL, from the land to the sea Palestine will be free.

[@nibaba8414]

@@jtien473 共产党在西方的领导下已经自我奔溃了70年了

[@dragonfly1929]

WONDERFUL !!

[@blue_AG2030]

It missed the most important point. It will connect Asia with Europe and lead to a well connected Eurasia. China directly aims to weaken the USA in the longterm and change geopolitics.

[@lanejiang9605]

So thats what your told in the us. The reason china wants to do the BRI is because they don't want to just trade with the pacific it also wants to trade with central Asia and more directly, europe

[@annyoung7853]

There are refugees and migrant caravans everywhere. USA is building a wall. The world isn't all sunshine and unicorns

[@GermanGreetings]

@megakids ...and Singapore on Thames.

[@donsanjino]

I think it's not zero sum. The trade route will involve underdeveloped landlocked countries in the global wealth creation process and so increase overall global prosperity. The rise in purchasing power in those countries means more market for European n US goods as well.

[@SportZFan4L1fe]

No China aims to STRENGTHEN China. ...If USA becomes weak that's their fault for not adapting to changing World.

[@srilaramanujam9040]

...great planning and execution of the BRI unquestionably!

[@drhjekyll]

PRC doesn't pull an navy at someone port to open trade. Nations can say no. it has to be mutual benefit for them to trade.

[@agapon2023]

I'm excited about her perfect general american accent 😍

[@tedwang50]

At past,Silk Road represents prosperity and wealth,but not war.China made contributions to economic prosperity rather than colonies which is totally different from western civilization.Nowadays China is still making its own contribution to the world with peace rather than war.

[@user-ov4cj9yp9k]

May-yi Shaw is so smart and so beautiful.

[@BarryAi]

Agreed! Thoroughly enjoyed the video.

[@bunnyfreakz]

China playing City Skyline. US playing Command & Conquer.

[@lettuce9466]

I LOVE CITY SKYLINES DO YOU PLAY IT???

[@seansteryu7398]

City skyline with peoples organs harvested. Lol

[@CMThochieuNguyenvansang]

thanks

[@joezhou7823]

this is a bright way to do it to islands , the fishpond part do need filter system to attach it.

[@bilsbo8870]

India refuse to join BRI and let Chinese build rail ways there because then the trains will be too fast and they can't hang on to it.

[@ME.5]

India can say NO to China

[@user-zo8hs4yh2h]

Lol aye, we don't need Indians

[@kratosgodofwar8366]

Bcoz we are modernizing our infrastructure like china but slowly

[@fengfei5654]

LOL, love india, Binzinga.

[@weijiang508]

that's good. a funny comment

[@MrJayanepal]

Nice insights. Great move. Hope Nepal can be benefited.

[@mahadabdillahi4264]

Risk and opportunity always go hand in hand.

[@mayachatterjee2336]

Very interesting! But someone needs to work on the subtitles, which are incomprehensible in many places. I intend to watch this again on a big screen and will recommend it to some of my family and friends. Thank you for making the film.

[@gorillaz112]

there are no opportunities without risks these 2 walk side by side like death and life

[@dakevs]

The guy at 24:03 made me tear up a little too.

[@georglp3006]

All of the people are smart and nice people

[@syedmaricar9946]

Work with each other to benefit all people.

[@muhammadmahbuburrahmanrati6323]

we will join with the China's one belt one road and makes asian great.the best things will be if we do it properly America will destroyed not by bullets but economic development.Go china we are with u.🇧🇩🇨🇳

[@MrKratosndante]

without money, US wont expand its military... win-win

[@vincent5873]

Nice

[@nandagopalmotog6897]

Question is why do you want to destroy America or any country for that matter? Grow organically, economic growth is not the most important thing in the world. Everybody needs to be factored in and there will be many people who'se livelihoods will completely change for bad as well. Not to speak of the environment and the Earth.

[@pvajit1109]

Belt and road initiative should involve Israeli technology industries. I have personally experienced the unbelievable designs that they offered as solutions to most complex engineering problems. I have great faith in Israeli innovation.

[@gonzooznog8986]

Ajit Nair Built paradise on the dessert.

[@ricardogamis9527]

And risk alienating all the other participants? Seems counterproductive

[@aliAhmed-zq1tg]

I once watched a clip by an American strategist who theorized that America has to pivot towards Asia as Europe seemed to him as a mere MUSEUM with old ppl strutting around and HE MIGHT BE RIGHT.

[@mboxi8405]

我是中国人，为中国人的走出去感到骄傲。我们帮助其他国家的人共同富裕，而不是那些欧洲人，只知道走出去批判人家。而自己一点真本事没有，

[@SEOPPC101]

Love the way Kyrgyzstan is developing. They are using the things Gifted by the God to each person I.e: Brain

[@bauerjan7887]

But they don't have it. :)

[@SEOPPC101]

Бауыржан Қайратұлы what? And how can you say?

[@lybovsemenowa4070]

August 23, 2019 45th President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump posted the following posts on twitter @realDonaldTrump Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far.... ....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..

[@EdwinaTS]

Economic inequality is the roots of war. BRI will help to tackle that. There is no rationale for nations to conquor the whole world anymore, just regional readjustments. International trade needs customers who can pay, so it is only logical to maintain prosperity throughout the world.

[@EdwinaTS]

@zak quen If you merely think of trade as an exchange of goods, then you do not understand business & economics. If say you can buy great tools at a good price from China to set up a business to produce more valuable output, be that be services or goods or merely resell, then it is a good deal for you eventhough you may not have something to sell to China. If you have ambition to do big business, you need to be able to reach buyers & sellers from big markets. And BRI is the infrastructure that enables such ambitions to be realised. If you believe you have the ability to make it in the world, try, but it requires a tough mind to make it in the world. Stay landlocked, then you remain poor generation after generation. Winners become rich and losers are just losers.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@EdwinaTS Golly but you are beneficient! Is there any words in your vocabulary that describe Humans who are content with a pastoral existence? Must all Humans everywhere be consumers of the Great Leap Forward Economically? The people of Central Asia may have been content to simpy be victims of Nuke testing as the residents of Southern Uath were in the days of fallout coloring the rain? Your terminology seems a bit narrow minded?

[@EdwinaTS]

@@danielhutchinson6604 Becoming a Buddist priest, living in a Buddist community, small scale farming, . . . etc. are quite typical lifestyles for chinese people to live a pastoral lifestyle. However, overwhelming majority of people aspire to get out of subsistence & poverty.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@EdwinaTS Getting into subsistence industrial farming, or barely making a living in overcrowded cities seems equally unfulfilling.... Most humans seem to realize it sooner or later....

[@EdwinaTS]

@@danielhutchinson6604 Industrial farming is not subsistence farming because it makes big profit. And people work in big cities to find their fortune, or at least better standard of living. It is your personal opinion that most people find life less fufilling in cities. Subsistance farming is endless toil at the mercy of weather and barely make enough to eat. You really fancy a life like that while you are well fed, sheltered and safe?

[@himanijoshi3991]

visionary jack ......uu r not alone some day they will follow this kinda farming .....journey is tough bro ....good wishes

[@johnlim4193]

B&R connects all the long neglected countries with proper infrastructure to bring in development and wealth to the region.

[@georglp3006]

#ThumbsupforJack I love your Idea Good Luck

[@frankiezhu7712]

Great video, well done May Yi

[@yaoguoli3955]

I wish Canada join them for big projects like sky train between VCC to UBC, sky train expansion in Surry, and more bridges between Vancouver and Richmond, the brigde between Victoria and Tsawwassen.

[@brandonwoods3485]

Very nice documentary

[@baddog5936]

2020. How you feel about it now?

[@fredfrond6148]

The Chinese are borrowing trillions of dollars to build this. The question is will the return come before payments have to be made. To those mealy mouthed US citizens that say China is wasting money i say you spent $5 trillion in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. What did you get ISIS and a stronger taliban. China invested in the belt and road at the height of the terror attacks in Pakistan. China is doing a lot better job of wasting money. USA is squandering the best geography in the world.

[@richmillar5199]

Curious - from whom is China borrowing trillions..?

[@cdd9199]

How big of an IGNORANT are You? China borrowing trillions from who? You mean US STILL OWE TRILLIONS TO CHINA. PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE EXACT KIND OF DOKEY THAT VOTED FOR TRUMP.

[@santsuma]

@@cdd9199... Agree with my friend. Good comment.

[@suryatjandra7120]

@@cdd9199 i agree with you. That is a good answer for idiot comment.

[@suryatjandra7120]

@@cdd9199 donkey people vote donald dunk 😂😂😂

[@nikitagavrilovru]

Great!

[@jambojam25]

This girl is just killing me.. beautiful n nice.. hope she read this text.. hopping to see u in person one day

[@nabeelahmedkhanofficial]

China is investing billions of dollars in Pakistan's infrastructure under CPEC project and i can already feel Pakistan is starting to reap its benefits.

[@TheYah00netstar]

*Actually...the so called "Silk Road" started and ended in Japan...by the way of trading vessels...The "Wa-kuo Invisible Bridge" connected the Land of Wa(Japan) to the Land of Pharaohs(Egypt)...the representative and prove of that is the thousands years old symbol of the city of Yamagata...a flower from Egypt/Ethiopia(Safflower)...In Japan, dyers have mastered the technique of producing a bright red to orange-red dye (known as carthamin) from the dried florets of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius). A bath solution of cold water is first prepared, to which is added the collected extract made from a type of plum causes the colorant to precipitate onto a piece of silk.Plants are 30 to 150 cm (12 to 59 in) tall with globular flower heads having yellow, orange, or red flowers.Safflower is one of humanity's oldest crops. Chemical analysis of ancient Egyptian textiles dated to the Twelfth Dynasty identified dyes made from safflower, and garlands made from safflowers were found in the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.The history of the "Silk Road" pre-dates the Han Dynasty in practice.*

[@martinweir3921]

A GREAT PROJECT FOR BOTH SIDES AUSTRALIA NEEDS GREAT PROJECTS

[@BarryAi]

Thank you for such a well-made and informative documentary, Dr. May-yi Shaw and CNBC Life!

[@adityakishore4260]

While the USA peoples are still watching kim kardashiyan 😂

[@milmex317th]

Look its been 11 months since your post. Maybe they are watching the Kardashian, I am not. I am studying mandarin so you don't have too. U No I Mean?

[@marcusjohnson0417]

Not this U.S guy

[@teksal13]

We've past the end of 2018. Any update?

[@sheilatuano9633]

Teksal1, COVID19, trade sanctions and company pull-outs

[@maninblack9271]

such an ambitious ongoing project and surely will drive down the price of almost everything, if not all which exciting to be seen later on, But I wish this documentary would expose the other site of impact of this project. I believe many bag packers would storm the silk route. (y)

[@nomeremannthetameruinkhan]

i love this video. the message. i want in right now and i can contribute. where do i invest? hey jack i know your on the right path. i respect and thank you

[@tracytomaszewski7734]

We need more people like Jack. 👍🏼❤️

[@sparrow56able]

Chinese internet army going strong in that comment section lol

[@maciejmielnik8215]

Some one should tell her the project is called "belt and road initiative" not " build and road "

[@globalfacts4415]

India should join for devolopment .... I m from north east india we love chinese cukture even all we similar them to devolop in our north east ....

[@mengmen1853]

這個女的就是抱著找茬心態來做的節目，任何事情都有兩面，一帶一路在技術層面的實現更是需要很多難題需要攻克，所以如果你從不同角度看待一帶一路，得到的結論可能會完全不同。就像任何新事物，都有樂觀派和悲觀派兩種觀點。美國出生，台灣長大，這就基本上可以判斷她的政治立場了，這些人就是靠罵中國才能在美國混飯吃的。

[@bheyzify]

只有未來知道

[@siam9914]

Cool

[@topskytube5379]

一体两面，为什么你会觉得中国不需要这样消极的评价。像现在一样被重视被抓起来打是好事？章家敦的重要性在过去的十几年已经被证实了而中国恰恰需要时间十年…二十年… 如是亲中人士麻烦闭嘴。感谢

[@user-st4sk2cz9x]

为什么亲中人士就应该闭嘴？

[@LizhongYang]

TOPSKY TUBE 章家敦……的重要性在哪里？

[@carlob4288]

watching this video until the end is like saying Goodbye to a dear friend, i think this documentary is epic, the stories, sounds, the shooting and such good presentation, wow!

[@zaidimir2878]

Good job

[@PureLifeNutrition-Flavonoids]

Clip Group your partner for activities connected to the Belt & Road Initiative. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIG0dH98h616p5Y

[@TTillahFK]

You can really hear and see that this isn't reporting, but a marketing "documentary"..

[@ycz1931]

"is it possible to build a city in the middle of nowhere?" look at las vegas, Americans can build a gambling city in the middle of nowhere, god forbid other countries to build a medical retreat in middle of nowhere.

[@StephenObiero]

China should give the Uyghur its nationality as a little token of recognition of Ancient History. Dr. May-yi did a wonderful presentation on this.

[@joshuawilliams7249]

Why tf aren't american farms like singapore ones? Jack's farms save so much space and produce organic vegetables filled with healthy nutrients and no pesticides. That was genius

[@intellectamit]

Asia is integrating, and here in Europe - "Brexit" pffff....

[@woodstockbrandonb]

That explains why China is putting the squeeze on Hong Kong

[@KimmyTheDarkTrader]

It is Oct 2019, approximately 20 months after this documentary. Instead of taking the opportunity from BRI as being said by Hong Kong, youngsters in Hong Kong today are putting themselves in a tough situation with economy recession are just around the corner.

[@martingainty9623]

interesting backstory would like to see actual progress ..particularly with installation of china hsr