The New Silk Road : From China to Pakistan to Germany...Chinese Expansionism.

[OnDoutside]

Excellent 2 part documentary from the DW Documentary team in Germany

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[Glorfindel]

1. Terrific documentary. Thanks for posting it, OnDoutside.

It is definitely thought-provoking.

[OnDoutside]

2. Glad you found it interesting. With all the Russia stuff going on, this is a warning of what the

US is falling behind on. A relative of mine was Vice President of the University in my city some years ago, and he was part of a civic delegation to China, to further business and education. He came back shocked of course by the scale of development but, as he said to me, even in the field of education, the Chinese didn't want to just buy services, but transfer the technology and the education methods. Utterly brazen, but the West is falling over itself to take the short term cash, but the long term may be devastating. I think someone mentioned something similar in the documentary. As it happens, there are now thousands of Chinese nationals in my local university, as they are using the large overseas fees to bolster the reduction in government funding. As was also mentioned in the documentary, my relative could see, 10 years ago, that the University was chasing after the overseas money so much, that (at that time Malaysian) many of the students didn't remotely have the required standard of English, yet were getting their degrees,