Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche was interviewed by Global Times as part of “a series of interviews with renowned scholars, think tanks, and financial institutions” on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the launching of what became known as the Belt and Road Initiative.
“Think about where we as mankind want to be in a hundred, a thousand years from now. Do you really want, when we are building a village on the moon and then a city on Mars, ‘de-risking’ from each other? No, we will develop together and realize our potential as the only creative species known in the universe so far. From that perspective, the method of thinking behind ‘de-risking’ goes against the trend of history and of the laws of the physical universe,” said Zepp-LaRouche.
“The word is just a semantic gobbledygook,” she said, when asked about “de-risking.”
“Somebody obviously realized that the idea of ‘decoupling’ from China sounds very negative…. ‘Isn’t it reasonable to reduce risks? The word ‘de-risking’ on the other hand sounds more confidence-inspiring along the lines. But in fact, the word is completely manipulative….”
“The ‘decoupling’ and the ‘de-risking’ push are just the same. Behind it is the geopolitical intention to contain China’s economic rise by cutting it off from certain advanced technologies. But that train has left the station already….”
What advice did Zepp-LaRouche give to the West?
“The smart thing for the West would be, to just join the initiative for win-win cooperation, rather than trying to contain China. Then the human species could concentrate together on the common aims of mankind, such as overcoming poverty for all nations, finding cures for thus far incurable diseases, cooperate in making fusion technology commercially usable to achieve energy and raw material security for everybody, join hands in exploring near space, discover the secret of life, protect the planet against asteroids, and many other wonderful things.
“The old unipolar world has already crumbled. With what China is offering, we as a human species have the chance to overcome geopolitics and replace it with a system of cooperation among sovereign nations, which promotes the benefit of all of humanity.”
The interview is posted at this link: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1292838.shtml
