{"id":77920,"date":"2021-08-02T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=77920"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:32:56","slug":"the-opportunity-offered-by-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/blog\/2021\/08\/02\/the-opportunity-offered-by-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opportunity Offered by Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the discussion of Afghanistan focuses on the dangers ahead, and is generally pessimistic &#8212; while presenting no alternative &#8212; the Schiller Institute provided a beautiful example of how collaboration in the development of that nation points to the prospect of peace and prosperity for the world.\u00a0 With the extension of China&#8217;s Belt-and-Road Initiative into Afghanistan as a starting point, speakers addressed how development, and not more military intervention and meddling, is the key to peace.\u00a0 The full discussion is <a href=\"\/?p=77697\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/29\/afghanistan-a-turning-point-in-history-after-the-failed-regime-change-era\/\">HERE<\/a>, and can be a source of optimism for all but those most committed to a pessimistic attachment to the world of never-ending geopolitical confrontations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Opportunity Offered by Afghanistan\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OCbzq7638aI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the discussion of Afghanistan focuses on the dangers ahead, and is generally pessimistic &#8212; while presenting no alternative &#8212; the Schiller Institute provided a beautiful example of how collaboration in the development of that nation points to the prospect of peace and prosperity for the world.\u00a0 With the extension of China&#8217;s Belt-and-Road Initiative into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":72826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-77920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77920"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77954,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77920\/revisions\/77954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}