What is the Silk Road?
It is the largest foreign policy strategy of the Asian giant. Its reason, its philosophy, is practically to strengthen Chinese exports to distant markets.
Andrés Giraldo, a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Javeriana University, explained that the Silk Road can be understood as a strategy that seeks to bring China closer not only to its immediate neighbors but to the rest of the world.
The name already existed. China kept it from an ancient program believed to have operated in 130 BC. The dynasties of that country used this name to refer to the land and sea trade routes between Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Today it is something very different. It all started in 2013 when the Chinese government designed one of the boldest strategies. The modern Silk Road is a much more ambitious strategy that not only focuses on the global market but also on the investment of infrastructure projects.
In simple terms, it is not something like the G20 or the BRICS, where countries seek to improve their trade exchanges with each other; these are multilateral groups.
The Silk Road is nothing more than an exclusive or bilateral agreement with China, that is to say, for benefits with that country, but not with the others that are also in the agreement.
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