Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
New Silk Road can refer to: Eurasian Land Bridge, rail transport route between Europe and Asia; Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese-sponsored Eurasian development strategy; New Silk Road Initiative, a US initiative for economic integration in Central Asia; New Silk Road, a 2018 album by Maksim Mrvica
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), [1] known in China as the One Belt One Road [a] and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, [2] is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in more than 150 countries and international organizations. [3]
New Silk Route was initially named Taj Capital. Its founding team included, at various points (alphabetically): [4] [5] Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, 20th finance minister of Pakistan; Anil Kumar, former senior partner at McKinsey & Company; Mark Schwartz, former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia and CEO of Soros Fund Management
The New Silk Road Initiative was a United States initiative in the 2010s that aimed to integrate Afghanistan with Central Asia, boosting trade and economic development. [1] [2] [3] Originally developed by the staff of General David Petraeus at the United States Central Command, [2] it was formally announced by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011 in a speech in Chennai. [4]
A new direction of the Silk Road was launched in January 2016 and included the Ukraine – Georgia – Azerbaijan – Kazakhstan – China route. [36] Kazakhstan's infrastructure development program Nurly Zhol was developed in line with the New Silk Road Initiative. President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev even noted that Nurly zhol was a ...
The maritime road is one of the most extensive sea-based trade networks of a single geological material in the prehistoric world. It was in existence for at least 3,000 years, where its peak production was from 2000 BCE to 500 CE, older than the Silk Road in mainland Eurasia or the later Maritime Silk Road.
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of The World is a 2018 non-fiction book by English historian Peter Frankopan.The full text is divided into 5 chapters. The author discusses the recent rise of Asia's economic and geopolitical strength.
The project new highway route numbers begin with "AH", standing for "Asian Highway", followed by one, two or three digits. [6] Single-digit route numbers from 1 to 9 are assigned to major Asian Highway routes which cross more than one subregion. [ 6 ]