Hear THE Voices...
Voices of the Belt & Road tells the stories of people that are part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It demystifies the initiative by enabling you to listen to the voices of experts and policy-makers, but also the very people affected by the initiative day in and day out.
It has become fashionable to conceptualize the BRI through large numbers. But we hear very little of the people and stories behind the initiative. BRI needs stories, it needs faces and it needs voices. Voices of the Belt and Road is your chance to hear them.
In this podcast, Oyuna Baldakova - PhD Candidate at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at the Free University of Berlin – discusses her research on the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia, particularly Kazakhstan. Oyuna has recently conducted her fieldwork in the country, and in the podcast gives granular insights on what’s happening on the ground.
Read MoreAndy Mok is the founder of Red Pagoda Resources, which invests in and provides professional services to startups in China. He is a frequent commentator on CGTN and in this podcast discusses the image of the Belt and Road Initiative around the world, as well as the BRI in the backdrop of global geopolitical shifts.
Read MoreIn this podcast, Professor Xu Wenhong - Associate Professor at the Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) - discusses how China and Russia can collaborate under the Belt and Road Initiative. In particular, he discusses how China’s deindustrializing North East provinces (Dongbei) can benefit from such collaboration.
Read MoreIn the Podcast William discusses how Hainan is transforming itself from a tourist island famous for coconut production to an international hub along the lines of Singapore and Dubai. He talks in detail on the island’s focus on clean and high tech industries and luring the best companies and talent from around the world to the “Hawaii of China” for the best air quality and work/life balance that can be had in China.
Read MoreThe Belt and Road Advisory Team were recently featured on the 'Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom' podcast, hosted by long time China podcasting guru, Brendan Davis. In the podcast, the team discuss their motivations for founding the Voices of the Belt and Road. They discuss their reasons for coming to China, and their coming together to form Belt and Road Advisory.
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