Here, you will find quick shortcuts to major topics & hubs under IslamiCity. Topics menu will always be here, always within reach. We prepared this quick tour to help you get familiar with the new design so you find your way around the new site much quicker. Locals in Kachin have successfully blocked a new dam project, asking how the Chinese could produce energy for their own country whilst leaving the locals themselves without electricity? The Myanmar government pulled the emergency brake and the huge Chinese dam project did not get beyond the first concrete piers in the river. In Myanmar, resistance is already growing.
But for land and house owners, on the other hand, it’s a bonanza. Rising prices and rents are making the poor even poorer. Many Cambodians are unhappy and feel like losers in the boom. Sihanoukville is now almost part of China itself! The Chinese have financed practically everything built here in the recent past: the extension of the port, new roads, bridges and factories. A joke is making the rounds there these days: you can now travel to China without a passport and without leaving your own country. Its first stop is the port city of Sihanoukville in Cambodia. The team takes a container ship towards Southeast Asia. The private market economy experiment unleashed forces that allowed Shenzhen to grow into a mega-metropolis. This is where China's legendary rise to an economic superpower began 40 years ago. Their journey begins in Shenzhen on the Pearl River Delta. A team of reporters travels by sea and land along the New Silk Road and shows how China, with the largest investment program in history, is expanding its influence worldwide. China wants to reconnect the world though a network of roads, railways, ports and airports between Asia and Europe.
The old Silk Road is a legend, whereas the New Silk Road is a real megaproject. But this two-part documentary shows China’s predominant self-interest and geopolitical ambitions. It's a gigantic infrastructure project that Beijing says will benefit everyone. The New Silk Road is a mammoth project intended to connect China with the West.
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