China Daily’s English-language Global Edition published an op-ed by Guyana’s former President Donald Ramotar on its front page August 29. Ramotar, an active participant in Schiller Institute conferences and the International Peace Coalition it founded, focuses on the difference in principles which underlie the approach of the Western imperialists towards the developing countries versus that of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
The BRI was China’s counter to the intent of “the powerful imperialist states” to solve their problems on the back of the poor and weakest countries in the Global South after the 2009 global crisis. The BRI “is instead based on “a win-win approach of mutual benefits and mutual security. It is an approach which sees the world as one, where cooperation is the most important condition for advancement,” he argues.
