Auf unserer Konferenz ‘Den Traum der Menschheit verwirklichen!’ haben wir über die unglaubliche Transformation der Welt gesprochen, die durch die chinesische Initiative der Neuen Seidenstraße in Gang gesetzt wurde. Die Belt and Road Initiative hat Optimismus in Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika, mehreren Ländern in Europa und nach Präsident Trumps Staatsbesuch in China auch in mehreren Bundesstaaten der USA ausgelöst.

Die Belt and Road Initiative bietet eine konkrete Perspektive, wie Armut und Unterentwicklung durch Investitionen in Infrastruktur, Industrie und Landwirtschaft auf Grundlage des wissenschaftlichen und technologischen Fortschritts überwunden werden können. Die chinesische Regierung, die in den letzten 30 Jahren bereits 700 Mio. Menschen aus der Armut befreit hat, hat jetzt das Ziel vorgegeben, bis zum Jahr 2020 die verbleibenden 42 Mio. in Armut lebenden Chinesen aus ihrem Zustand zu holen und der gesamten chinesischen Bevölkerung einen angemessenen Lebensstandard zu bieten.

In der Europäischen Union leben etwa 120 Mio. Menschen unter der Armutsgrenze, gemessen an unseren eigenen Kriterien der Lebenshaltungskosten. Angesichts der Tatsache, daß Europa immer noch wirtschaftlich stark ist, gibt es keinen einsichtigen Grund, warum Europa diese 120 Mio. Menschen nicht auch bis 2020 aus der Armut befreien kann.

Der beste Weg für die EU dorthin wäre, daß alle europäischen Länder das chinesische Angebot annehmen, mit China in der Belt and Road Initiative auf „Win-Win-Basis“ zusammenzuarbeiten. Wir, die Teilnehmer der Konferenz des Schiller-Instituts, rufen alle gewählten Amtsträger auf, sich diesem Appell an die europäischen Regierungen anzuschließen. Sollten wir in Europa nicht stolz genug sein, zu sagen: ‘Wenn die Chinesen das können, können wir das auch?

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Die Teilnehmer der Internationalen Konferenz des Schiller-Instituts, die am 25.-26. November 2017 in Bad Soden stattfand, verabschiedeten einstimmig die folgende Resolution über den Krieg im Jemen.

„Angesichts der unbestreitbaren Tatsache, daß der Krieg, den die von Saudi-Arabien angeführte Koalition gegen den Jemen führt, eine beispiellose humanitäre Krise infolge der Bombardierung der Infrastruktur des Landes und der totalen See-, Land- und Luftblockade hervorgerufen hat, fordern wir:

1. Einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand aller Parteien,

2. Die Aufhebung der gegen das Land verhängten Blockade, besonders gegen den Hafen Hodeidah und den internationalen Flughafen von Sanaa, so daß sofort humanitäre Hilfe ins Land kommen kann.

3. Rückkehr zu dem nationalen Versöhnungsprozeß und Dialog, der bereits im Gange war, aber vom Krieg unterbrochen wurde. (Dieser Verhandlungsprozeß muß unter dem Schirm der UNO nur von den nationalen Fraktionen des Jemens ohne Einmischung regionaler oder globaler Mächte, aber unter Aufsicht von Rußland, China und den Vereinigten Staaten als Garanten der Umsetzung des Endergebnisses des Dialogs geführt werden.) Ziel der Verhandlungen ist es, eine politische Lösung für die Krise im Jemen zu finden.

4. Unterstützung für den Jemen beim raschen und umfassenden Wiederaufbau vor allem der Infrastruktur, um dem Land seine Existenzgrundlage zurückzugeben, und die Integration des Jemens in die Belt and Road Initiative.

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Resolution adopted by the Schiller Institute Conference in Bad Soden, on Nov. 26, 2017.

At this conference, with the title “Fulfilling the Dream of Mankind,” we discussed the incredible transformation of the world catalyzed by the Chinese initiative of the New Silk Road. The Belt and Road Initiative, which is creating optimism in Asia, Africa, Latin America, more and more states in Europe, and after the state visit of President Trump in China, in several states within the United States.

The Belt and Road Initiative has the concrete perspective how poverty and underdevelopment can be overcome through investment in infrastructure, industry and agriculture, based on scientific and technological progress. The Chinese government which uplifted 700 million out of poverty in the last 30 years, has now proclaimed the goal to lift the remaining 42 million people living in poverty out of their condition, and create a decent living standard for the entire Chinese population by the year 2020.

Within the European Union, there are living approximately 120 million people below the poverty line, according to our own criteria characterizing the costs of life. Given the fact that Europe is still an economic powerhouse, there is no plausible reason why Europe cannot uplift these 120 million people out of poverty by the year 2020, as well. The best way to accomplish this, is for the EU, all European nations to accept the offer by China to cooperate with China in the Belt and Road Initiative on a “win-win” basis.

We, the participants of the Schiller Institute conference, call on all elected officials to join this appeal to the European governments. Should we in Europe not be proud enough to say, if the Chinese can do this, we can do it, too? [applause]

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Resolution adopted by the Schiller Institute Conference in Bad Soden, on Nov. 26, 2017.

Given the documented fact that the war on Yemen, waged by the Saudi-led coalition since March 2015 on Yemen, has caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in this country as a result of the bombardment of the country’s infrastructure and the total blockade imposed by air, land and sea, the attendees of the Nov. 25-26, 2017 Schiller Institute international conference in Bad Soden, Germany call for:

1. An immediate ceasefire by all parties.

2. The lifting of the blockades imposed on the country, especially the port of Hodeida port and the Sanaa International Airport, allowing in immediate humanitarian aid.

3. The return to the national reconciliation process and dialogue that was underway but was interrupted by the war. (This negotiation process needs to be conducted under the UN umbrella, by only Yemeni national factions without interference of regional or global powers, but with sponsorship of Russia, China, and the United States as guarantors of the implementation of the final outcome of the dialogue.) The purpose of such negotiations is to find a political solution to the crisis in Yemen.

4. Assisting Yemen in a rapid and large-scale reconstruction process focussed on infrastructure projects to regain the livelihood of the nation, and the integration of Yemen into the Belt and Road Initiative

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In einem weiteren, in deutscher Sprache ausgestrahlten Interview des Senders People Television wertete Helga Zepp-LaRouche die Konferenz als „die wichtigste strategische Initiative auf diesem Planeten“, was von den Menschen in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika auch so verstanden würde. Die starke Zurückhaltung in Europa sei eine Ausnahme, die Bevölkerung dort würde auch gar nicht über die Bedeutung des Projekts und dieser Konferenz informiert. Besonders für Deutschland, das mit seinem produktiven Mittelstand sehr viel in den Ausbau der Neuen Seidenstraße einbringen könne, sei dies nicht hinnehmbar. Das Schiller-Institut werde sich jedenfalls noch mehr als bisher für eine deutsche Rolle in dem Projekt engagieren. „Heute ist Geschichte geschrieben worden, ein neues Kapitel der Menschheit ist aufgeschlagen worden“, sagte Frau Zepp-LaRouche.

In einem weiteren Interview mit Xinhua erklärte Helga Zepp-LaRouche am 14. Mai, die Neue Seidenstraße werde „nicht nur wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand für alle teilnehmenden Länder bringen, sondern auch als Grundlage für eines Friedensordnung des 21. Jahrhunderts dienen“. Sie sei, so Frau Zepp-LaRouche, optimistisch, daß schließlich auch die bisherige Zurückhaltung in Europa und den USA fallen werde, daß man dort den Vorteil einer guten Zusammenarbeit mit China bei diesem Großprojekt der Menschheit auch für die eigene Wirtschaft erkennen werde.

Wie aus Beijing zum Abschluß der Konferenz berichtet wurde, haben 68 Länder entschieden, sich an der Seidenstraße zu Land und zur See zu beteiligen, und obwohl die EU die Abschlußerklärung nicht unterzeichnen wollte, haben einige EU-Regierungen wie Tschechien, Griechenland, Ungarn, Italien und Spanien die Konferenztage zum Abschluß von konkreten Vereinbarungen oder von Absichtserklärungen zum Ausbau wirtschaftlich-kultureller Beziehungen zu China genutzt.

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Die Weltlandbrücke ist offensichtlich das ideale Projekt, um die landeingeschlossenen Bereiche unseres Planeten zu entwickeln. Die Kolonisierung des Weltraums wird die nächste offensichtliche Phase der infrastrukturellen Erweiterung des menschlichen Habitats sein.“

Helga Zepp-LaRouche ging in ihrer Rede auch auf die Rolle der USA ein. Sie könnten ein zentraler Bestandteil eines Infrastrukturkorridors werden, der Süd- und Nordamerika und über einen Tunnel unter der Beringstraße mit dem eurasischen Transportsystem verbindet. Da Präsident Xi Präsident Trump eingeladen hat, sich der Seidenstraßeninitiative anzuschließen, sei jetzt ein Vorschlag auf dem Tisch, bei dem die USA ein Bestandteil der Weltlandbrücke werden kann. Man könne die 1,4 Billionen Dollar, die China in Form von US Staatsanleihen hält, in Infrastrukturkredite für die US Wirtschaft umwandeln.

„Die US-Wirtschaft würde durch Infrastruktur-Investitionen in diesem großen Maßstab einen gewaltigen Aufschwung erleben und könnte ihrerseits auf den schnell wachsenden chinesischen Markt exportieren. Und wenn die Konkurrenz durch Kooperation ersetzt wird, sind die Gelegenheiten zu Gemeinschaftsunternehmungen der USA und Chinas in Drittländern enorm.

Da Präsident Trump seine Absicht erklärt hat, wieder das Amerikanische System der Ökonomie von Alexander Hamilton, Henry C. Carey und Abraham Lincoln einzuführen, und auch Franklin D. Roosevelts Glass-Steagall-Gesetz, rückt die Möglichkeit einer baldigen Gründung einer Nationalbank und eines Kreditsystems, um chinesische Mittel in Infrastrukturinvestitionen zu lenken, in greifbare Nähe.“

Sie betonte, daß es auch im Interesse der europäischen Nationen sei, sich an der BRI zu beteiligen:

„Während mehr und mehr europäische Nationen – sowohl außerhalb als auch innerhalb der EU – die gewaltigen Potentiale der BRI erkennen und die Absicht zum Ausdruck bringen, Umschlagsplätze für die eurasische Kooperation zu werden, blieb die EU selbst reserviert, um es diplomatisch auszudrücken.

Es gibt jedoch eine große Herausforderung, wo die Mitgliedstaaten der EU überzeugt werden könnten, mit der BRI zu kooperieren, und das ist die Flüchtlingskrise. Die einzige Grundlage, wie diese moralische Wunde Europas geheilt werden kann, ist die aktive Integration der europäischen Nationen in das Grand Design eines Entwicklungsplans für ganz Afrika mit Hilfe der BRI.

Die positive neue Aussicht auf eine amerikanisch-russische Deeskalation und militärische Kooperation in Syrien, zusammen mit dem Astana-Prozeß, rückt nun die Stabilisierung der gesamten Region ins Blickfeld. Es gibt bereits Angebote, die Neue Seidenstraße nach Südwestasien auszuweiten.“

Am Ende ihres Beitrages erklärte Frau LaRouche die tiefere Bedeutung der Weltlandbrücke:

„Wenn die Initiative der Neuen Seidenstraße zum Erfolg führen soll, muß sie – wie es auch der antiken Seidenstraße war – zum Austausch der schönsten Ideale der Kulturen aller teilnehmenden Nationen führen. Die wahre Bedeutung einer Win-Win-Kooperation ist nicht nur der materielle Vorteil aus Infrastruktureller und industrieller Entwicklung, sondern, voller Freude andere Kulturen zu entdecken, die Schönheit ihrer klassischen Musik, Poesie und Malerei kennenzulernen und dadurch unsere Liebe zur ganzen Menschheit zu stärken.

Während des Ausbaus der Weltlandbrücke werden alle Nationen gemeinsam studieren, wie man die Naturgesetze der Noosphäre auf die Schaffung dauerhafter Formen von Selbstverwaltung anwenden kann. Die Entwicklung der kreativ-geistigen Fähigkeiten aller Menschen in allen Nationen werden den Menschen das Gefühl der Einheit und die Zielgerichtetheit geben, welche unsere Gattung wahrhaft menschlich machen wird. Wenn wir unsere Gesellschaften um wissenschaftliche und künstlerische Entdeckungen herum organisieren, werden wir unser Wissen darüber vervollkommnen, wie wir kontinuierlich den Prozeß der Weiterentwicklung der Menschheit intellektuell, moralisch und ästhetisch voranbringen können. Wir werden unsere Freiheit in der Notwendigkeit finden und unsere Pflicht mit Leidenschaft erfüllen.“

In particular, Zepp-LaRouche addressed the question of the role of the United States, whose delegation in Beijing was led by a special adviser to Pres. Trump. Presenting the most positive, ‘big picture,’ Zepp-LaRouche explained, “Looking at the world land map, the United States is not merely a country surrounded by two oceans and two neighbors, but can be a center part of an infrastructure corridor which connects the southern tip of Ibero-America, through Central and South America, with the Eurasian transport system via a tunnel under the Bering Strait…”

Predictably, the geopolitics crowd, centered in London, is having a fit. The Economist in London today ran a stream of bilge, headlined, “The Economist explains, “What Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative?” They write that businessmen in Central Asia call it the “One Road, One Trap,” because B&R projects are unreliable. And “the Belt and Road Forum has an unfortunate acronymn, BARF,” etc.

But back in reality, not only does the Belt and Road Forum mark the process of potential world economic and scientific lift-off, but there is a vital process underway of deliberation over points of immediate suffering and possible all-out war. President Trump’s envoy in Beijing, Matthew Pottinger, is now in South Korea for consultations over concerns in the region. On Syria, as peace talks start on May 16, called “Geneva 6,” numbers of meetings are set for this week, of Mediterranean leaders who met in Beijing with both Xi and Putin. In Washington, D.C., May 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with President Trump. On May 17, in Sochi, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni will meet with Putin. Likewise, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met in Beijing with Xi, Putin, and also with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Today Helga Zepp-LaRouche summed up the great potential–our great challenge–by describing the May 14 opening of the Belt and Road Forum: “Yesterday was a fantastic, historic moment!” She was speaking on China Global Television Network’s “Dialogue with Yang Rui” program, run live, prime time. She exclaimed, “We are in a “phase-change for humankind!”

Q. What do you make of China’s global ambition?

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: I think it’s very important strategic initiative because it’s the only way how you solve all problems–regional, cooperation, underdevelopment, poverty. It’s really a historic mission. I cannot see anything else, not from the United States, for sure, not from Europe and so I’m really optimistic. I think yesterday was a fantastic, historic moment.

Q: But, do you think China is ready?

Zepp-LaRouche: Oh, I think so. First of all, the Chinese economic miracle of the last 30 years has surprised the world. And now through the Belt and Road Initiative, China is offering to export that model of development to other countries. And if you look at the success of the Belt and Road Initiative in the last four years, it is absolutely breathtaking! And I am shocked — every day the Chinese government comes up with a new initiative, which offers a solution to a problem. And it’s just very attractive idea. This is why so many countries want to be part of it. It’s much more attractive to have win-win cooperation in the context of the New Silk Road than to be part of a military alliance, which just gets countries into trouble. So this is why the whole center of power has completely shifted to Asia. And I am convinced that yesterday we experienced the formation of a new world economic order. It was a truly historic moment, and I think most of the participants at the Belt and Road Forum had that profound sense of being in the middle of making history for a new era for civilization. And I am very excited because this is a phase-change of humankind. I think we are on the verge of…

Yang Rui: No wonder President Xi Jinping calls the Belt and Road Initiative the project of the century.

Q: [India says] Hey, the Sino-Pakistani economic corridor will somehow go through the contentious territorial area of India, Kashmir; therefore, they refuse to get involved with the Belt and Road Initiative. The spokesperson of the Indian Foreign Ministry even protested against the idea of the economic corridor between China and its geopolitical rival, Pakistan. What do you think of the rivalry, the geopolitical rivalry that China wants to really keep a distance from?

Zepp-LaRouche: Well, first of all, India has always been the subcontinent and therefore they have a long tradition of geopolitical thinking. But, I think this has been reinforced by the British colonialism, and the British, and formerly the U.S. administration before Trump played on that. They played Pakistan as the state terrorism state, and trying to hype up sentiments in India to further this conflict. And I think the opposite is true. Because of the British division of India into Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, the only way how this can be overcome is increasing the connectivity among all the countries–Nepal, Bangladesh–all these countries want to be integrated. And they call it “connectivity”; they don’t call it the “Silk Road” and they don’t call it “Belt and Road Initiative,” because that’s associated with China. But in substance, all of these countries are urging for more development like that.

Q: What’s interesting is that both sides [China and U.S.] announced their joint projects, the list of projects, simultaneously. Do you think something must have been discussed at the Mar-a-Lago summit in Florida, between Trump and President Xi Jinping? And actually the announcement of this list of mega-projects between the two sides is an indispensable part of what has been agreed upon by the two heads of state?

Zepp-LaRouche: I think so, because President Trump has announced that he wants to have investment in $1 trillion worth of infrastructure in the next ten years. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that $4.5 trillion actually is required, and Chinese experts have said that the United States needs $8 trillion worth of infrastructure. Now China in the past years has shown a tremendous expertise in building fast trains and other projects of infrastructure, and China has also $1.4 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, which we have proposed it invest in an infrastructure bank or national bank in the United States, and then invest in the building of infrastructure. Now that would be a total game change. And if China, in return, would invest in the Chinese market, which is growing because of the growing buying power, you could replace the competition between the United States and China through cooperation. And then they could join hands and have joint investments in third countries, like rebuilding the Middle East, developing of Africa. I think it’s important that you’re not just talking about infrastructure and economics. We are really talking about a new era of civilization, where you replace geopolitics with a completely new set of relations among countries. And if the United States and China could solve this–you know, I have said many times that if President Trump would go for this, he could become one of the greatest Presidents in the history of the United States. And many of his critics don’t think that is possible, but I am absolutely convinced that we are very close to it.

Q: In effect, overseas observers pointed out, it seemed as if [President Xi] was talking to two audiences at the opening ceremony. For the international audience, he promised to export our technology, our ideas about Belt and Road Initiative, to reestablish the world order and to reconsider the idea of globalization internally. He also promised to rejuvenate the nation, to tell a China story through the Belt and Road Initiative…. To the surprise of many who are very skeptical about the economic relationship between Japan and China, two arch-competitors, economically and geopolitically as well, the Japanese government decided to send a senior delegation, which was headed by the head of the ruling party, the LDP, Liberal Democratic Party. And this head of the delegation also handed over a letter from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the host of the Belt and Road Initiative summit. What do you think of the possibility that Japan will seize this opportunity to drastically improve, not only the balance of ties, but also to enjoy the dividends of the Belt and Road Initiative, so that it will not be excluded from rebuilding the world economic order?

Zepp-LaRouche: I think it is very clear that Prime Minister Abe has the intention to do that. I think he sent de facto the number two of the LDP to the summit. I think it has to do with the change in perception that the world is indeed changing. If you look at the rapprochement between Russia and Japan over the last period where Abe has the intention to have a peace treaty during his time in office. There were many visits of Abe to Russia, and vice versa, Putin was in Tokyo, so I think given the fact that China has a very close relationship with Russia, and the offensive policies of the United States, of intervention in foreign wars — with Trump, he has said he doesn’t want to do this anymore, the situation in the South China Sea has completely shifted, it’s no longer such an important hot spot — I think we are on the verge of fixing the world according to completely new rules. And I think it’s really a time for people to rethink and not stick to old geopolitical schemes, which have been in the Cold War, because we are on the verge of a completely new era of civilization, and I think what Abe did, reflects that.

Q: Ironically, the young leader of the D.P.R.K. test fired a missile to coincide with the policy speech by President Xi Jinping at the Opening Ceremony. Yet the elected leader of the R.O.K., Mr. Moon, promised to reconsider the deployment of the THAAD, a missile…. That may have paved the way for an apparent improvement in the relationship, which has been frayed seriously by the THAAD deployment. What do you think of the R.O.K. delegation and in fact, a rumor went around the internet that President Trump called for a boycott of the belt and road summit saying “Hey, why did you invite the D.P.R.K. to attend the summit when the international society, through the UN Security Council imposed yet another economic sanction — which I believe is well underway — what do you think of the concerns, allegedly, the major concerns by the international media?… But I am afraid that those who are very skeptical about China’s intent, may point out, citing President Bush, Jr., that bad behavior should not be rewarded. So this invitation for the D.P.R.K. delegation has been very controversial. I’d like to have your take?

Zepp-LaRouche: Well, I think there are some people who are thinking in terms of the old paradigm of geopolitics, and they can just not imagine that a country, especially a large country like China would be motivated by Confucian ideas. And I have studied China for the better part of my life, and I have come to the conclusion that the present government, in particular, is not based on anything other but the Confucian idea of harmony among nations. And some people realize that. For example the Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni who at the Belt and Road Forum, gave a fantastic speech, where he said…

Q: Excuse me, but harmony would become a lost sense, if we do not respect some of the principles, which have a lot to do with national security. The nuclear program of the D.P.R.K. has indeed endangered three northern provinces if any nuclear fallout were to occur! That would be a major threat [crosstalk] to national security.

Zepp-LaRouche: But the new President of South Korea has basically said that he wants to go back to the Sunshine Policy of economic cooperation with the North. North Korea only has nuclear missiles because they were afraid they would have the same fate as Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi. And once the threat is away and we return to the Six Party Talks and the Sunshine Policy, and especially if this is in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, I am absolutely confident that this problem will go away very shortly.

Q. The last question is whether there’s going to be a collision or a clash between Russia’s brainchild of having the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative? Because there have been speculations by the media who say, “Hey, Russia may show its great concern about China’s interference with the internal affairs of its traditional backyard, Central Asia through perhaps the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.” And therefore, they focus on whether there’s going to be inconsistency and discrepancy between Russia’s Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative: What’s your take?

Zepp-LaRouche: You will be happy to hear that President Putin, who was the guest of honor at the Belt and Road Forum, already gave a press conference where he said that not only does Russia support the Belt and Road Initiative, but he will take an active role in promoting it. And if you look at the number of leaders and countries that are now joining, you have a total change in the dynamic– Tsipras from Greece, the Serbian government, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Belarus, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland–all of these countries have said they want to become hubs of the Belt and Road Initiative. So even if the German Economic Minister at the Forum was not so friendly, let’s say, I think Germany will be soon surrounded by countries that want to be part of it, and I think this will tilt the situation. The former Prime Minister of France Raffarin gave a passionate speech why France should be in it, and he was sent by the new President Macron. So I’m absolutely convinced in half a year, the majority of the nations that are still reluctant will recognize that it is in their best interest. Because, for example, Germany should have a fundamental interest in cooperating. I mean, German industry, the Mittlestand, the medium-sized industry, are exactly the complementary kind of economic force that would perfectly work with China. And I think it will come around., I promise.

Yang: Despite the success of Emmanuel Macron, the European Union is indeed in trouble. And President Trump’s idea of prioritizing American interests, putting America first, may also isolate this country from the rest of the world. During this absence, China is said to be ready to assume the leadership. Is China ready? We’ll keep this discussion open. Until next time, goodbye.

The US economy would experience a tremendous boost through such a grand scale infrastructure investment, and could in turn export into the fast growing Chinese market, and once competition is replaced by cooperation, the opportunities for joint ventures between the US and China in third countries are enormous.

Since President Trump has declared his intention to reintroduce the American System of Economy of Alexander Hamilton, Henry C. Clay and Abraham Lincoln, and also reintroduce the Glass Steagall legislation of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the possibility of an early establishment of a National Bank and a Credit System in order to channel Chinese holdings into infrastructure investments is near.

While more and more European nations, both outside and within the EU, are recognizing the tremendous potentials of the BRI and express the intention to become a hub for Eurasian cooperation, the EU itself has been reserved, to be diplomatic.

There is however one huge challenge, where the member states of the EU could be convinced to cooperate with the BRI: It is the refugee crisis. The only human way to heal this moral wound of Europe is the active integration of European nations in a Grand Design development plan for all of Africa with the BRI.

The positive new prospect of US-Russia de-escalation and military to military cooperation in Syria, along with the Astana process, now puts stabilization of the entire region in sight. Offers by China to extend the New Silk Road to Southwest Asia already exist.

The New Silk Road must–as the ancient one did–lead to an exchange of the most beautiful expressions of culture of all participating countries in order to succeed. The true meaning of Win-Win cooperation is not just the material benefit of infrastructure and industrial development, but of making the joyful discovery in other cultures of the beauty of their classical music, poetry and painting, and, by knowing them, strengthen our love for mankind as a whole.

In the building of the World Land Bridge all nations will cooperate on studying how to apply the laws of the Noosphere to the establishment of durable forms of self-government. The development of the creative mental powers of all people in all nations, will give all of mankind the sense of unity and purpose which will make our species truly human. When we organize our societies around scientific and artistic discovery, we will perfect our knowledge on how we can continuously advance the process of self-development of mankind, intellectually, morally and aesthetically, and we will find our freedom in necessity–doing our duty with passion!