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Barry Webb NSA Arabist and translator
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for 25 years and on this short segment
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of the of the NSA reveals tell us about
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the Chinese is the Silk Road approach uh
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cuz I what it’s called yeah in the
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Arabic media they’re calling it all tan
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Road project on invests a translation
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and that’s what the Chinese are calling
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it a Western media is calling it the New
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Silk Road before I want to say one thing
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though before I get into that before I
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forget
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all of these news reports that were
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doing if you want a written look at a
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written a sample they’re all posted on
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Brad Johnson’s website Intel reformed
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dot org so if you want to get up and
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then any of your listeners want to get a
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refresher on this they can go there to
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see the whole story
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but what the job first of all we’ll
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start with the two Chinese trade
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corridors transportation corridors that
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are going to open up western China to
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the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea
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there’s to the corridors one skirts just
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barely north of Afghanistan and ends up
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in Iran on one of the off the coast of
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her and the other one skirts just south
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of Afghanistan and ends up in a
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Pakistani seaport on the Indian Ocean
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now this this touches on our situation
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in Afghanistan because it has I’ve
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written of some of your office and my
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articles is that American soldiers are
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fighting
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dying and having the body parts blown
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off in Afghanistan for one reason one
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reason only and that’s to make China
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rich because if it wasn’t for our
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efforts there you know Afghanistan would
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be hit on a terrorist Haven again
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and those trade corridors running so
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close to the Afghani border on both
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sides would be tempting targets so the
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Chinese are thrilled to death to have us
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in Afghanistan doing their work for them
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okay now in addition to those two trade
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corridors
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I’ve been reading an Egyptian media that
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yeah that the Chinese want to extend
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this new Silk Road idea this road and
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built idea to Egypt okay
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now Egypt has also has a project that
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they’ve been working on a trade cord our
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transportation corridor to connect Cairo
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with Johannesburg okay now I think the
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Chinese are probably helping to finance
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that or if not entirely so if once China
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connects Egypt to its you know New Silk
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Road that is building in Asia that will
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tie all of Africa to the Chinese economy
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Chinese also have plans to to build
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similar trade and transportation
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corridors across Russia and into Europe
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so what we’re looking at is the three
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big continents of Africa Europe and Asia
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all being linked tightly to the Chinese
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economy now guess who’s left out you
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know
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I can’t who the American they Northup
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aircon yeah of course yeah so now so
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think of it any other future economic
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power well of course that’s assuming it
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works out they think it will there has
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anybody ever colonized Africa and found
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it profitable well I think the Europeans
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they found a profitable at least for a
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while and there’s a lot of resources in
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Africa tremendous resources but the cost
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of maintaining civilization there can be
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high yeah yeah can be very high well I
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guess if anyone can do with China can do
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it
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have to think little political
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correctness that we do yeah they’re not
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going to stand on ceremony much they’re
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just gonna get the job done I think it’s
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gonna be very interesting to watch thank
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you very much for that that’s
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interesting I know that all I mean I had
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heard that China was implementing a
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system of loans to countries that could
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not possibly afford these loans to build
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things which were in fact to the direct
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advantage of China and they’re in their
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expansion trade and then of course when
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the loan couldn’t be paid China would
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then say well we own this thing now
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yeah they find themselves with strategic
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ports that they had built specifically
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to Chinese specs all over the bloody
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place yes so obviously that’s part of
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the same plan and yeah it’s gonna be fun
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to watch thank you so much very wet well
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thank you
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