Updates relating to positive developments towards a just world economic order
14. November – Der erste Testgüterzug mit Containern aus China ist am Montag, dem 13. November, am Güterbahnhof in der slowakischen Hauptstadt Bratislawa angekommen. Die 11.000 km lange Fahrt von der chinesischen Stadt Dalain über Rußland und Ukraine dauerte 17 Tage. Bei der Ankunft des Zuges waren Transportminister Arpád Érsek, die Finanzstaatssekretärin und Regierungsbeauftragte für […]
14. November – Am 12. November wurde die zweite russisch-chinesische Erdölpipeline nach nur 456 Tagen fertiggestellt, wie der chinesische 21st Century Business Herald berichtet. Die von den Ölkonzernen China National Petroleum Corp. und Rosneft gebaute 940 km lange Pipeline von Mohe nach Daqing in Heilongjiang hat eine Jahreskapazität von 15 Mio. Tonnen. Entsprechend dem geplanten […]
Nov. 14 – On Nov. 12, the second China-Russia crude oil pipeline project, which took only 456 days to build, was finally completed, Asia Times reported, citing a report from the Chinese publication 21st Century Business Herald. Built by those countries’ two biggest oil producers, China National Petroleum Corp. and Rosneft, the 940 km pipeline […]
15. November 2017 • Wie Xinhua berichtet, betrug das jährliche Gesamtwachstum Chinas in den ersten drei Quartalen 2017 6,9% – höher als erwartet. Die Wachstumsraten werden zwar auch in Geldgrößen des BIP angegeben, doch im Falle Chinas entsprechen diese Zahlen zweifellos sehr weitgehend den realen Wirtschaftsprozessen, was auf den transatlantischen Sektor keineswegs zutrifft, wo in das BIP […]
Nov. 14 – Xinhua reported Nov. 13 on third quarter 2017 results for the Chinese economy, as presented by Zhang Liqun, researcher with the State Council’s Development Research Center. The year-on-year overall growth rate in China for the first three quarters of 2017 was 6.9%, which was higher than expected. Most interesting is that “the […]
SCHILLER INSTITUTE ANNOUNCEMENT: HELGA ZEPP LAROUCHE WEEKLY WEBCAST Thursday, November 16 6 PM CET, Noon EST To say that President Trump’s Asia trip was an historic success may be an understatement! Though the highlight was his visit to Beijing and meetings with China’s President Xi Jinping, his meetings with other leaders, including his exchanges with President Putin, […]
Nov. 7, 2017 -“Egypt supports the Belt and Road Initiative that connects China with the world’s continents through massive networks of land and sea routes,” Ibrahim Mahlab, the Egyptian President’s assistant for strategic and national projects, told a forum in Cairo. Describing the China-Egypt ties as “strong, unique and sustainable,” Mahlab, a former prime minister, […]
Nov. 8, 2017 -Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev was in Beijing for regularly-scheduled meetings with his Chinese counterpart, Li Keqiang, and he also met with President Xi Jinping. Xi told Medvedev that China and Russia should create a “Silk Road on the Ice,” and fully “integrate the Belt and Road Initiative with the Eurasian Economic […]
Oct. 30 — There was great enthusiasm in Baku, Azerbaijan today as the head of state of that country, Ilham Aliyev, was joined by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in a ceremony to inaugurate the new 826 km. Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway, which was set to take off on its maiden […]
Nov. 1, 2017 -Portugal’s Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, accompanied by representatives of 39 Portuguese port and related companies and industries, is in China for a busy, eight-day visit (10/28-11/4) to concretize Portugal’s participation in the Maritime Silk Road. That includes hopes for some $2.5 billion in Chinese investments in expanding container and […]