Next week’s Third Belt and Road Forum on International Cooperation, to take place Oct. 17-18, is expected to have representatives from over 130 countries and 30 organizations, and will be attended by China’s President Xi Jinping. The forum, titled: “High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Together for Common Development and Prosperity,” is sure to be a significant event given the pace of developments around the world and the need for strong methods of collaboration between nations.
Global Times takes the opportunity to get responses from the founder of the Schiller Institute, Helga Zepp-LaRouche:
“‘Given the extraordinary challenges to all of mankind resulting from geopolitical divisions that presently threaten to separate the world into antagonistic blocs, I am sure that the [forum] will expand that spirit of a single humanity, which will be united by enjoying the benefits of shared prosperity and a sense of belonging indeed to the one human species,’ Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of Germany-based political and economic think tank the Schiller Institute, told the Global Times on Wednesday.”
The article continues: “Zepp-LaRouche said that the BRI not only has become the greatest infrastructure project in history, but also has started to lay the concrete indispensable economic foundation for building a global community with a shared future.”
Despite efforts to smear the BRI, the project has continued to progress with over 150 countries involved, with trade between China and the respective countries growing by 6.4% annually between 2013 and 2022 to reach $19.1 trillion, the article says.
“‘The BRI is by far the largest engine of improving global connectivity in all fields of infrastructure: By building land routes through corridors and rail lines, by expanding maritime connections, by multiplying air connections and building up cyberspace, it grows into a world network that serves all the peoples of the world, creating better conditions for cooperation,’ said Zepp-LaRouche.”
