By: Simon Appleby

Simon Appleby — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:29:21 +0000

I remember in 2015, at the first Silk Road Forum in Tbilisi, presenting the One Belt One Road programme to Georgian business and society. The US sent a Deputy Secretary of Commerce (a pretty high level official for a forum in such a tiny country) to express the willingness of American companies to collaborate on One Belt One Road projects, and the approval of the US government on that process. The EU sent nobody. It was embarrassing.

By: Lucy Pitcher

Lucy Pitcher — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:05:07 +0000

Thank you for this article, it explains a lot. I agree the sitauation is a mix of mistrust, apprehension and incomprehension. The EU just wants to block and discourage these days it has no long term strategists in place, only politicians. The word doesn’t run on politics along and I also agree a lot of them have become too fat in Brussels and do not want to see change. They have their own little fiefdoms they have built up (like German Telecom) and put their heads in the sand. The EU needs strategists to deal with the new world order – the problem is they haven’t got any. Its all about being constantly re-elected in order to retain power over what they have. Thats why it is messed up when it comes to innovation and China.

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