The New Silk Road, Part 1: From China to Pakistan | DW Documentary
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- The New Silk Road is a mammoth project intended to connect China with the West. It's a gigantic infrastructure project that Beijing says will benefit everyone. But this two-part documentary shows China’s predominant self-interest and geopolitical ambitions.
The old Silk Road is a legend, whereas the New Silk Road is a real megaproject. China wants to reconnect the world though a network of roads, railways, ports and airports between Asia and Europe. A team of reporters travels by sea and land along the New Silk Road and shows how China, with the largest investment program in history, is expanding its influence worldwide. Their journey begins in Shenzhen on the Pearl River Delta. This is where China's legendary rise to an economic superpower began 40 years ago. The private market economy experiment unleashed forces that allowed Shenzhen to grow into a mega-metropolis.
The team takes a container ship towards Southeast Asia. Its first stop is the port city of Sihanoukville in Cambodia. A joke is making the rounds there these days: you can now travel to China without a passport and without leaving your own country. Sihanoukville is now almost part of China itself! The Chinese have financed practically everything built here in the recent past: the extension of the port, new roads, bridges and factories. Many Cambodians are unhappy and feel like losers in the boom. Rising prices and rents are making the poor even poorer. But for land and house owners, on the other hand, it’s a bonanza.
In Myanmar, resistance is already growing. Locals in Kachin have successfully blocked a new dam project, asking how the Chinese could produce energy for their own country whilst leaving the locals themselves without electricity? The Myanmar government pulled the emergency brake and the huge Chinese dam project did not get beyond the first concrete piers in the river.
The Karakorum Highway from Kashgar in China across the Roof of the World to Islamabad in Pakistan is one of the most difficult and dangerous roads in this breathtaking mountain world. Once the road is finished, it often disintegrates again, and rock falls and landslides block the highway as if the Karakorum Mountains are trying to deny China strategic access to the Arabian Sea. The first part of the report ends in Islamabad.
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That line of poem actually means “when traveling west of YANG pass, you will see no more old friends”. It is written to a friend of the poet saying farewell.
yes, this video seems deliberately mosleading
@@michaelli4016 Translate is really misleading, "I can't go home before i finish the job" ... The misleading translate
@@michaelli4016 yeah they don’t show enough how bad the dictator Xi and his inner circle of thugs are for the entire world. They’re no better than the european colonizers hundreds of years ago. Genocide of people in their own country, and so many human rights abuses to their own people
@@tinameadows462 How could your conclusion like this be made? Based on this biased documentary or perhaps other rumors as well? Can't you see how well China protects its people during the pandemic? Can't you understand how great effort China has been made to develop its country and people's living standard in passing years with the huge costs? As far as genocide, it is a pure lie and fictitious allegation!!! I am an ordinary Chinese and I also blame the government from time to time when I was unhappy with something. But I have zero tolerance for lies, no matter who made it. If genocide was a true fact, there should already be a flood of refugee flood to everywhere from China to other countries. There would be tons of videos or photos appearing on the internet. However, so far, such things haven't come! Pls think with an open mind and critical thinking! If you meant to spread lies and rumors with no pieces of root evidence, I could only be speechless. Mercy on you.
@@yanwu2118 how's that great Xi protection now that alot of your top Construction companies are hugely in debt?
I can't finish watching this video. It has more personal opinion and provocative.
Yeah. They show us only one side of coin.
@@ilovebayern134 yeah the true side.
Thank you DW Documentary for a fascinating look at this massive project. Vielen Dank.
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This doc emphasizes the bad impact of China's investment, but from a business point of view, it makes a sound investment. At the same time, the doc does not mention that the West would not have invested in these countries and that these countries would not be able to withstand the financial and economic burden insisted by IMF.
agree
It is not emphasizing the bad impacts of investments, they are just showing the outcomes and results which brought up and this is really "bad"....its about people of the country which has to suffer...see srilanka how much they got help?....their airports is still vacant
And in the last.. IMF is trying to help that country to get out of the bankruptcy and inflation
@@user-zh3lr8oh9t actually studies have been made. Most of the deals China made was concluded to be fine. Sri Lanka case was the only one that was on the borderline. China has helped debt nations with leaner terms so they could pay back. Many advanced nations from the US and India refused to invest in them because there is little chance of being profitable. China however saw the investment as a long-term strategy. Even now The US and the West learned to begin to invest in the same way that China did decades ago. The West uses IMF which shows no sign of long-term interest in any investment and likes to interfere with local government from politics to economics to ensure they get something back. China, being a govt can take a long-term view. The Western media in the West doesn't like to applaud Chinese progress for they are jealous of its success without their help and want to prevent their continuous independence. They want to control the world. How dare China breaks their hold. :) Major Infrastructure is important to any society, so it is empty now, but when the worldwide economy gets better, Sri Lanka is ready to receive tourists again. It is not just in underdeveloped countries but in developed countries as well.
@@cczsus6513 How can you compare yourself to a whole country. In a country there are several corrupt officers, politicians who can be bribed by the loan lending party.
@@cczsus6513Why so many poor countries would like to commit an economical suicide one after other. In a row. Obviously their leaders are getting bribed under the table. And CCP have plenty of money to do so.
As a Pakistani we sees most of Pakistanis are working in cpec only some of them are from China and china help us to get rid of load shading also due to roads tourism is rising so fast and also buildings economic zones to promote industrialization we respect China
#Ruler always little in numbers and labor always most in numbers..
@Will Y Pakistani believe in China we know that its propaganda of west they show same attitude with Pakistan too they show us like their is nothing in Pakistan except dessert camel and religious extremist people .so we understand that what they are doing .same thing with China defaming same thing they did with Pakistan
Zulfiqar Zulfiqar Oh we know what Pakistan is like and we do not all think that! Do not attribute the lies of the Press of all three countries to what the TRUE American People think! We are a caring, giving people who wish for world peace. That is why we are demanding our country return all of our troops around the world and stop getting involved in your dealings. That is your problem when Chinese marines show up at your port or come streaming down your highway. Remember China can put 200 MILLION soldiers in your country tomorrow. They have 621 million fit for service! So Two hundred Million on your door step is easy! Good Luck!
Zulfiqar Zulfiqar Look into how Cambodia people feel about China! China is just moving their people into China and overwhelming the country and taking over by attrition!
Little do you know China doesn't have respect for the millions of Uighur Muslims. They have detained, brained wash and killed Uighur for there beliefs. Now does Pakistani media show you that?
Wang Wei’s poem is mistranslated. He was signing that his friend is leaving and that friend does not have old pals out there. Please don’t use google translate when trying to translate Chinese poems.
and they constantly put their words into the interviewee's mouth, as if nobody understand chinese...
with a piece of propaganda like this you can't expect much
DW addressed that in an above reply
Apart from that, they filmed the wrong place. The poem is talking about Yang Guan, or Yang Gate, while they filmed Yumen Guan, or Jade Gate. They are actually not far apart from each other, probably 60km away, connected by high-quality paved road. However, it is true that Yang Guan doesn't have much left. The last time I visit, it was pretty much a dune. There are ample amounts of poems about Yumen Guan, or Jade Gate as well. I guess they were just too illiterate to know which one fits their malicious narrative.
@Aaron haha all of media do the same, but they just need to do it better than their opponents, which for sure the west do.
Love the documentaries, reality hits hard...keep up the good work :-) subbed
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Very clear and easy to understand. Keep going
I'm a Malaysian, we do have controversy like East Coast Railway project with China too but this journalism is too biased. It is not that extreme and one sided as the doc mentioned. In 1 project no matter who with who, I'm sure it's gonna be win win situation. If not why do u think other country let China built and the infrastructure? I love to watch all the great place u filmed (very beautiful) but I will only watch it muted.
Teh Koon Teik Yes, I agreed, definitely much better muted. Malaysian too.
good idea！mute it now！
Good idea....
Your investigation not too detail or true.
I investigated what China doo. Mybe good for distribution of China. But not too other country.
China want to determinated another religion of Asia.
But the west still lure China movement.
u are brainwashed by ur government says media.
The tone is so negative, which means that China has been doing a wonderful job!
....at killing its own people? indeed they are great at it
@@spetsnazttv6724 ...no, at ticking you haters off. Yeah, a sight to see you lot going at it :):)
America spreads their ideas with invading countries and war mongering. China spreads with investment and hard work
wumao
@lavender farm I mean, even *if* that's true it's still better than invading and dropping bombs on the locals in my book :)
Silk Routes: There were at least 5 different routes that are known as Silk Routes: At least three were most used. Northern China, via Mongolia, Central via Central Asia and Southern via India. The two sub routes were split in Central. Most ended at Anatolia, Turkey. China, then, was the most technically advanced country
Thank you for such useful videos it would be better if you download them with subtitles
Dunhuang is a very interesting place. I've been there twice and really enjoyed it. The secret is to avoid the massive crowds who hang around the dunes at the entrance to that park, and just enter for free a few hundred metres either side of the gate. If you veer to the right of the gate you'll find yourself in a graveyard with very interesting tombs, and you can walk around there for hours looking.... I recommend an overnight trip to the desert where you will see stars like you'll never see anywhere else in China. Sitting under the night sky by a fire is really an awesome experience, and there will be nobody around (most of the Chinese tourists won't even consider this option). The best part is you see the dunes in all their splendour.....
Sounds amazing...
I think I'll def do that one day man. Thanks for sharing
@@TheHonestTruth If you have a chance, give it a try. Happy New Year!
The so-called Chinese tourists only want to take a photo there to show to their friends. Most of them have no interest in culture and history.
Hey @DW a little correction here the cemetery shown at 37:44 is the final resting place of Chinese workers and engineers who died during the construction of the Karakoram Highway (KKH) in Pakistan in the 1960s and 1970s and not for CPEC .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Cemetery_(Danyor)
Would DW do a documentary on the ‘ Economic hit men ‘ of the WB-IMF gang?
Pour praise on them AMERICA good.
They can't
They did.
what an epic Journey! Kudos to the Team 🙏
Sounds like you should do a documentary like this one about the loans given out by the IMF and World Bank. Would be great as a comparison.
Agreed. Economic hitmen.
Same question, when is Dirty French going leave their greedy hands off West Africa with their Franco de France?
I can only see double standard European propagenda here.
@@merrick6484 there is no doubt...however...the western media always got their double standard, especially when they are reporting about the east, whether it is about the good things or bad things. I feel like they have envyness in their heart🤪🤢
In what way would it be a comparison? Chinese loans aren't based on economic fundamentals as the IMF (which has had to give bailout loans bc of Chinese lending practices) and the world bank, which often focus on hard to support soft infrastructural projects. World Financial system, can easily fund all profitable hard infrastructural projects. China funding on political terms and then wanting the IMF to bail out borrowers. To mention nothing of Chin paying SOE contractors in China in RMB and demanding Dollars back from foreign borrowers.
@@elliott7706 Hollywood crackpot. Jackals and Coyotes. Insanity and Paranoid Delusional.
This video reminds me of what is happening in the Philippines 🇵🇭
What's happening? The same thing or?
Some debts are good. If China helps the Philippines build bridges and roads that will improve the Phil economy, then why criticize it? But if the corrupt government of the Phils ask China to over-build useless roads/buildings while China uses its own resources to do so, then it must be the Phil government fault. After all China does not go the Phils forcibly to build anything, the corrupt government of the Phils go to China and ask them to build
the Chinese build nice air conditioned shopping malls though
@Bugatti Boss guess that is why it is a muslim majority country?
@Rogue_Samurai_47 Ask sri lanka? Or just those Sri Lanka people interviewed by dw? You are so cute to believe what a tv channel tells.
2:16 Dunhuang (China)
7:41 Cambodia
13:22 Kashgar (China)
18:27 Myanmar
25:42 Sri Lanka
32:12 Pakistan
wonderful documentary. Thank you
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in 2006 I drove on empty highways all over China, now they are filled with people and commerce. The Chinese are right, you build roads and prosperity follows. This is one undeniable aspect of wealth and nation building. Unfortunately it was Hitler who understood this first and built the autobahn system of connectivity. DW might have this scewed reporting because of their collective guilt in WWII. They will go to any length to not make this connection. That is why this whole series makes no sense to most people.
1st. The autobahn was conceived in the 20s.....Hitler just let it proceed.
2nd. did you just pretend like thousands of years of human civilization doesn't exist, because economic roads have been a thing since, well forever (the silk road is literally based on....well, the effing old world silk road)
they arent being forgetful, you are just bending over backwards to both be a sinophile or a nazi apologist.
No the Chinese are busy trying to show the world that they are modern but what they produce is rubbish.
the construction work in Pakistani are mostly local workers in this documentary. So how long DW wants to lie to people?
How did you know
Aryan Sanan It says 7000 Pakistani workers and 250 workers
I agree. Its propeganda running against china. West and india badly jealous of china progress. Chinese are committed and hardworking ppl. Indian and west want to grab progress by mockery plotting and propegandas
@@MuhammadAdnan-sn1ct I guess no country was bothered about China’s progress before the SIlk route project. After this project started it started troubling other countries. So the other countries are saying don’t disturb or create troubles for others while you are progressing. Is that too much to ask for ?? Imagine, If Russia and all other China neighbours starting building roads, railways and bridges near their respective China borders, will China be happy about it ? Just asking
@@yogeshsomasundaram4187 all the countries along the belt and road has given consent. The only country that is against it is US since they aren’t able to rip the Middle East countries off any longer. Also the countries are happy to participate because China is funding the entire project and it’s neutral benefit.
It is not a simple project, its a dream project near to be completed soon. You named it documentary on silk road but instead I felt it is an American propaganda documentary against China. Gash you have highlighted the positive outcome of this project and how it is going to change future of many poor countries.
I just hope that it can make enough revenue to pay back 7 billion to China, the interest rate is high. Bangladesh was un able to pay China back and had to forfeit the port. Now China has control of their port as payment. I hope pakistan doesn't suffer the same. And has success.
That's what is called a documentary, people! It was a pleasure to watch it.
This is what I called one-sided double standard.
I think if U.S give up his position as world strongest country. This world can become a better place.
Make a Documentary on this.
yaa that's good but what about China's atrocities on minorities
they never create that kind of true documentary because they have been paid to create a documentary that represents their own interest.
@@billionfollowers6528 China is investogating 1.2 million muslims and U.S killed 7 million muslims just in Iraq alone.
Trump Threatened another way to win Afghan war. Just kill 10 million peoples there and win it. But he thinks its a bad idea. 😂😂
Island's nation is the chaos of terrorism on earth. whatever the island big or small.
yeah... love that communism, and ALL those freedoms that China represents. Thanks, I'll stand with the Stars and Stripes and hold tight to my guns to protect those freedoms. So how about not glorifying repressive regimes.
should create documentaries on history of all european massacres on foreign soil
They have plenty of docs about the Nazis and imperialism, you should watch those. This video is about China.
@@veggiedisease123 as though a trading network and European colonisation at gunpoint are the same thing. Delusional.
@@michaelhayes4231 you really dont think they are colonizing through economic trade?
@@williamperez492 no I don't. Dominating and colonizing are two different things. A strong state of 1.4 billion people is bound to dominate regionally and eventually internationally but that's not colonialism.
@@michaelhayes4231,
Yeah right, have you heard what happend to tibet, have you heard that China's been the first to militarizing the border it has with India, have you heard that China told taiwan should be annexed since it's the "latest trend", have you heard that China pushed more than 50m in scarborough shoal than what was diplomatically settled with.
Absolutely amazing documentary ! Money money money money !
Thankful to Dw, Receiving idea about many hidden think of belt road
Same here in the Philippines. Chinese culture is already part of the Philippines even before the Spanish colonization. But the new influx of Chinese citizens is comparable to an economic and cultural invasion.
Which part of Philippines is that happening?
I do find it interesting that the germans of all people would say they have never seen an airport like this before considering the vacant berlin airport
Berlin is a busy airport. That SL airport has ONE flight lol
Berlin Airport is technically under construction.
There is Tegel and Schoenfeld in (near) Berlin. Brandt airport is under construction, originally scheduled to open in 2011. Basically conplete except for everything that does not work it would appear to a visitor very similar to the airport in this video
@bro ha naah, it's in remotest area of SL and it's more poorer area where ppl ain't wanna visit.
Recently India bought this whole airport to counter China.
Its been partially closed for awhile due to the super hero fights there before the blip.
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Thank you for your info
Pakistani part starts at 32:15 for those who can't wait like me
china policy is to debt all these country if you are from pakistan my advice beware of these chinnese
@@vinay11163 what about IMF.
Thanks for guideline....
@@vinay11163
Thanks for you concern but Chinese are a thousand times better than western imperialists.
How many times have you said dangerous in this video? The Karakoram Highway wasn't built in the last 10 years. It has been around for decades. People travel to the highway on motorcycles, yet you make it sound like no one is allowed there. Westerners go there all the time. You can literally type it in the search box on CZcams and find out.
agree....
I am from Singapore. Last month, I travelled from Islamabad to the Hunza Valley. From there I travelled into China. The landscapes and the people along the Karakoram Highway are fascinating and beautiful. The highway is not dangerous. I have met tourists from many parts of the world during my stay in the Hunza Valley. Here are some photos from this trip, nns555.zenfolio.com/pak_china_karakoram_highway_october_2019
Yes. And he said that they are the first international media out there, I doubt that.
wow man DW documentaries are sooooooooo awesome
Thank you!
DW Documentaries are always good quality. Also, using soundtracks from the Christopher Nolan Batman series is pretty cool too!
you should continue this but in south america and other places, great work!
The Jade market part is also not making sense. If you think the price is too low, you don't sell to that buyer. If nobody is offering a better price? Then your stone is not worth more at the current circumstances. This is just how the market economy works. BTW don't you see the irony here that China, the one that's been accused by many western countries of not being a market economy, is being criticized by a market economy country's public TV station for doing business in the market way.
I think you don't understand how the power works. Once the Chinese jade traders take the monopoly of jade market, then they define the price.
@@koroglurustem1722 It is called capitalism ^.^
@@koroglurustem1722 and the buyers know the jade miners desperately need the money.
@@koroglurustem1722 The Burmese are the sellers, they can always control the price if they organized themselves.
Despite all the negatives mentioned in this video, KKH has benefitted the local population immensely, I can now travel conveniently in two hours from my home in Baltit Hunza to Gilgit town, which I travelled in three days when I was a student of 8th class.
highway is in disputed territory!!
We visited KHUNJRAB PASS as a local tourist few years ago but now-a-days many Pakistan tourists and foreigners too used to visit this pass. Yes, casually landsliding incidents happen, but overall its worth a fun. Traveling into Northern Areas of Pakistan is passion now-a-days but on the other side you have showed negative side. Visit this summer and find the reality.
Thinking forward on the airport. Build it and they will come !! I love Pork Fried Rice at the tunnel construction site. They know how to treat their workers. Nothing American can build like that. We had a hard time building a subway tunnel extension in NYC.
well then move to china since it is so great.
China Pakistan Economic Corridor is particularly a game changer for Pakistan and generally for all of South and Central Asia.
Lets see
When they find only Chinese people lived in Pakistan
Yeah it will become a paragon of neocolonialism
How much money Pakistan owns China?
@@berns8314 about 60 billion dollars something
Where Highest-Spending Tourists Come From
The nationality of tourists also seems to be a factor in these total expenditures. Chinese tourists spent $277 billion internationally in 2018, likely thanks to the increasing consumption of an emerging, affluent middle class.
Interestingly, this amount is almost twice the combined $144 billion that American tourists spent overseas in the same year
Chinas middle class is the size of the US population.
Why spend money in POS nations that are dominated by Chinese
@@jtxo9305 middle class under constant surveillances
A pleasure to watch .
40:06 the engineer was literally bragging about how hardworking they are and their work ethics... but the voice Dub seemed to understand it as some sort of complaint... man I know the work ethics sound bad but don’t over-interpret it to serve your own good.
I can transfer your comments to the man our chief engineer as you agreed,say what dose he replay you ?
not surprise. That is the way how those media reporting about China
Journalism at its worst.
@S C "subtle"
@S C There is nothing good to be said
19:57 is this how dw makes documentaries? The man in black shirt ask :”how can you define the quality of the jade” then the man in white said :”with years of experience”. But DW subtitles says how good the man in white good at bargaining. I don’t understand, it’s a mistranslation from their local translator or dw does this on purpose
It's all through the documentary, include a worker's words are translated into "i can't go home before i finished the job", what does that sound like
The mistranslation happens all the time on purpose with almost all western media when issues towards east so that west can gain political favours from foreign audiences
What purpose does the West Media serve at the silk road only to criticize,why are the West critical of such an enormous and gigantic project undertaking by the great super power China it's almost absurd and ridiculous.
All because it's not a western project, shame on you.
@@verranhunter5108 because its a debt trap lol?
@@michaelf.2449 China never forces any to borrow from it. SL has total of 67 billion dollars debt from all institutions, but only from 7 billion dollars from China. Hambantota port is not a debt trap.
Superb documentary and watching it for the second time.
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You guys should continue this series on the BRI in Africa and other places!
This DW documentary emphasized on the negative side, not a balance report.
I didn't finish this video. I couldn't bear the bad taste from this video.
For example, the Cambodian guy couldn't afford the higher rent asked by the Cambodian landlady, DW emphasized the losses for the guy and completely ignored the gains for the landlady.
DW had a hidden agenda on this. It has been getting hypocrite and biased like BBC.
Still try to finish the video, for almost every media contains a bias in some way or another
They serve their Royal masters.
@@sheikhwaqr6401 just as u serve the saudi masters
Anything that isn't complete total unconditional praise is considered problematic for cringy CCP shills
your documentaries are really good but let's be honest, not only you knew of another airport like that but up until recently, you had one!
Thank you for presenting us another informative documentary which says a lot.
Thanks for watching!
fake news for most things,or maybe it just show the bad side of all the things.
You mean pretending, right?
Great documentary
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I note the dark music nearly all in minor keys with much percussive component indicating bad things happening. DW used to have quality output with independent thinking. What happened? This is just groupthink bashing China.
Yeah I hate these manipulative film techniques in a documentary.
Well who among us isn’t even a little biased
Why do not US, UK and other western countries invest in south east Asia countries such as Cambodia and Philippine?
They do, it's call the stock market.
They have no money? They have no resource. They just complain of others doing!
Guns and cannons conquer faster
harry Smith Usually because were too busy bombing them
@@kalakaritasansar9636 no money? they have lesser population living in better condition with a gdp much larger when compared fairly they just don't want to colonise anymore its not in their own interest they have much to lose whilst china being less developed doesn't.
Thanks for such an interesting and informative documentary. It is glad to see how technology and prosperity had reached Chinese society but countries around them are insecure about its independence, freedom as one own country can maintain and support tradition, believe, religion that define the identity of each nation.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, Elena!
Superb documentary.
Thank you for your comment!
Wish every country on earth to be prosper and wealthy. Everyone deserved what the world can offered at best.
Not if it comes with cultural and community destruction.Its people that want peace more than money and greedy progress
Avarice
Human nature will prevent that from being the case.
that is imposible, will always there wealthy and poor people
As a Chinese, I have been to a lot of communities in both China and America, I felt that, it is hard to stay in bad life in China even you are in bad community as the government force you to chase good life. In America, It is hard to chase good life if you stay in bad community as bad community has freedom to stay in bad life.
Such a shame. Says "we are the first western crew given coverage" and then continues with his propaganda. There are 100s of western vloggers there at this time alone. How do these people lie and show faces to their families.
Many white people believe anything they see on the Media, if they go and invade a poorer country right now and kill millions of civilians nobody but the westerners would be seen as the victims of War, China is actually helping us Africans and Asians but the West don't want that because it'll be more difficult for them to have friendships and above all; valuable resources
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@@omohamed702 oh boy, you are really clueless
@@saraaaaa9803 sorry to say you are a sheepo !
@@saraaaaa9803 give it a couple generations
This SHOULD BE SHOWN around the world ASAP ! ! ! ! Before it's too late ! ! ! ! Just like in Cambodia & Sri Lanka ! ! ! !
The Silk road existed even when there was no Europe on the world map..
That's why they can not process the idea in depth...the Western is just too shallow.
@@rtgtx Then why does everyone want to go to the west and Europe. Dont be a nieve fool.
@@actualfactual8737 Everyone? On the crack?
@@rtgtx Westerners do not need any more dollar store crap.
@@actualfactual8737 Everyone 😂😂Come on its some who hardly goes to west if he/she gets some jobs . Your western countries dont give jobs to everyone and stop crying as always . There are many countries in the world and central asia is just wonderful as your western you can check on your own
30:29 you definitely have seen an airport like this, in Berlin
Lmao this documentary is so stupid and contradictory.
Lol that hurts
That should be interesting. Watching this video later.
Gotta love the Hans Zimmer in the background xp
You interviewed one dude. Amazing
I had a good laugh at your comment lol
I'm a Pakistani, I don't it will change much. North will stay as it is for a long time.
Current Government is working hard to make the right decision. They are changing policies with China. Karakoram Highway is not a new thing, homework is done badly on the Pakistani side.
If your relations with India are solved then there will be a great neo-silk road from....
*China's* Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Wuhan, Chengdu - to -
*Bangladesh's* Cox Bazaar, Chittagong, Dhaka. - to -
*India's* Guwahati, Kolkata, Nalanda, Varanasi, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar - to -
*Pakistan's* Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Islamabad, Karachi, Gwadar, Quetta, Peshwar.
This documentary is absurd. Trying hard to create negative image of China. From Pakistan perspective most of our side investments on projects are 'BOT' "Built, operate, transfer" means Direct investments from China will operate project to obtain certain amount of profit to a certain amount of time and then transfer to Pakistan. Loans are hardly $6-7 billions of total $62 billions CPEC.
At 37:50 He says that graves of Chinese workers are resembling with the graves of Chinese soldier, and then he says these are Chinese soldiers after saying this he says it's a sign of a Conquest is Underway. lmao. The amount of stupidity is so high in this Documentary. These graves are of Chinese workers died in 1960s and 70s building this highway and I bet he didn't knew this, All this documentary is about is to portray negative image of China.
But all the railways are from East coastal areas or important industrial citis in middle China.
@Will Y Will they allow Indians to populate China? after all, they don't have enough room for themselves anymore. Maybe the Chinese will give them some space of their own. Somehow I doubt it.
@@ShahanshahShahin Yeah u r right, I think relations could come to a stalemate. Pakistan and India can't become friends but for the greater good, this needs to stop.
Dw is my make a day...good programme
This video brought me up with a question: is the modernization process good or bad? Not everyone will benefit from this process, and an ideal transition is that people get skill and financial aid from governments with this change (which is unlikely in poor countries). However, this is not the reason to leave them in backwardness - they ought to have their own convenient life no less than people in western countries, not by charity but by their own hands.
Apart from this, in this documentary I cannot see any topic with pros but only cons well documented, as if modernization is bad for local people. It does not seem like an unbiased documentary IMO.
Are you dreaming? Those loans to poor countries will make them slaves financially and in every other way. Don't you understand how brutal China and every other Communist dictatorship is? Ask people who live next to Russia like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine when left under Russia's rule after WW2 until 1989. Unless you like torture, beatings and death camps you may need to wake up. Africa already told China to stuff it as they deceived them on their loans. They also bring in their military with them.
@@sharischoll9411 Rubbish
It is very biased, full of thinly veiled racism. They'd rather see sleepy poor villages begging for western handouts than free wealthy ones with Chinese tourists.
The China rapid rise in the globe is a positive one for all nations based on win-win solution for both through mutual understanding,unlike Western imperialist countries and US who brought war,chaos, weapons and bomb to disintegrated the latter nations.
Which was a true evil force of nightmare for the peoples.
The problem is not modernization, the problem is the western imperialists' desire for world domination with its utopian ideal: *"New World Order"*
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
Keep the undeveloped counties in undeveloped, that is good DW wants? No changes in rest of world but western countries. That is all DW Documentary wants to say！！！！！
What they worried about is if all undeveloped countries developed, no more cheap labor and natural resources for western countries anymore.
Jiicool exactly what I think.
Maybe it has to do with whether those countries citizen's welcome those changes, whether or not any of those changes benifit them, and what will be left of their culture in the future.
Very good questions. And the past behavior of China doesn't bode well for the answers to them.
There's a big difference with keeping undeveloped countries undeveloped, and actively preventing their development.
It's kinda ironic when they show an empty Airport and mention about how absurd it is to have this kinda Airport in Sri Lanka while they in fact have this very same kinda airport back home in Berlin.
@@SL-pn6qb The airport in Berlin is NOT open, and if it were it would become bankrupt in less than 6 months.
@@SL-pn6qb Corruptions between government officials and businessmen + downturn of economy + bad plannings (fail to foresee what is coming) always leads to disastrous result.
There huge difference between both airports... Germany has not taken a big chunk of loan for that airport...But, Sri Lanka has did....
@@cliffling2220 Germany is one of the least corrupt countries :/
@@DeepakYadav-em6ei , so what?
Citizens will still have to pay for a failed and bogus project.
12:44
Agree, for the most part. Just like most middle eastern, and most cultures actually. It just seems to be stronger in certain communities, usually minorities.
This documentary was really good to watch. Very informative.
Hi @Kaushik Nath, thank you for watching!
Deeply impressed. I reserve my comments till I watch Part 2.
I've lived with Chinese for several years in the UK as a student I never had any problems with them ever. The problem is actually with the local Cambodian govt who is accepting bribes , not relocating its own citizens and not punishing a minority of rowdy Chinese. So actually the Cambodian govt is the problem.
If you can come and live in China for a few months, your impression of China and Chinese people will change again.Every country has its bad side and its good side, depending on how fairly you look at it
@@jackyzhang4324 but the video quite subtlety is being unfair to all Chinese. Or course there is good and bad everywhere and I am sure the hippies from the west living in Cambodia are not saints either
So because you lived with "a" or a "few" Chinese in the UK, you're able to generalize Chinese, their culture, mannerisms, behavior, behavior abroad, etc? Try living in China amongst locals in different cities for years and maybe then just maybe you can form a fair opinion, assessment, or generalization of Chinese. The Cambodian's opinions of what they experience amongst the Chinese tourist in their city is not wrong or unfair just because they have had a different experience than you. Not to mention their encounters are seemingly more frequent & of higher quantity than yours.
The Chinese that come to study in the UK are not the same as the Chinese who are tourists. I studied alongside the former in Manchester, and (while visiting relatives) saw the behaviour of the latter in Seychelles. Unfortunately, I can confirm the Cambodians' experience.
Everything this narrator said about China is negative. He has been bribed to do this fake documentary.
Nice use of Dark Knight theme at the beginning!
The engineer who builds a road through the mountains one stone at a time at the end of the video. 👍👍👍
Engineers don't actually build anything lol...if they're physically laying down anything, its not an engineer performing that action
@@dondaddah9141 rt rree
Confucius
@@dondaddah9141 they do the hardest jobs
In 10 years, when the Chinese engineers show their son the bridge they build, the documentarians can show their son this documentary.
Yeah...
The Chinese engineer will tell his son, " Daddy has built this bridge ! "
The reporter of this doc will tell his son, " Sorry son, daddy has failed to defame China with this doc, you may wanna watch it for fun ! "
😁😁😁
Yes. Whey they are speaking, we are producing. We and the partners get wealth, they get fans who have been brain wash by them.
@@user-tq3ih7pr3x Provided his Chinese daddy is not dead due to Cancer.
@@fengchang789 When you say 'we and partner are getting rich' then it is implicit that only handful people. The mass Chinese and Citizens of China's partners are at greatest loss.
@@nkhullar1
If you know the Law of Karma, " Whatever evil things you have said or done to others, the evil things would always come back to you !
Whether you believe the Law of Karma or not, the Law of Karma would never stop working !
am I crazy or do I hear Hans Zimmer's score for The Dark Knight in this
you got it. it is indeed dark knight score.
DW, you're my ticket to great documentaries! It's always a pleasure watching you each time. You never fail.
Thank you DW for your excellent documentaries.
These days enjoying all DW's Documentaries while Quarantining my slef .....🙏 DW
A very productive way to spend your time :D
@@DWDocumentary such modesty
Same Here
@@DWDocumentary Can you please tell the soundtrack at 0:10
Too bad the CCP virus has you locked away
19:56 - the translator asks the appraiser "he asks how do you tell this stone is good or not?". The appraiser says "you look at it and base on experience. Experience is critical". Look at the DW translation: "There's a black vein here! The color's not green enough. No, I don't like it"
DW turned a friendly exchange into something negative by completely mistranslated the conversation. Makes you wonder how many interview with locals are locals' words vs DW's words
The translation literally faked the whole conversation. Just to prove "Chinese only care about the quality of jade". What a shame.
@@haotianchen2268 They do it on purposes , it's not mistake
I am Chinese. I want to tell you some truth after watching this movie. First, weger people have a good life. For example, he built a new house. The government gave some help to him, but another religion does not have this support. Second, weger people go to some cities to sell some food on the street. They can do it, but other people are not allowed. Third, they can have some babies all the time, but others are not allowed. etc. About re-education camps we have, just to tell them do not believe the lies, become radicals. Wegar city has a different coulter, we like it and keep it.
Then why not let them get interviewed?
五毛😂
Thanks for the documentary of new silk road approaching Indian Ocean.
Thanks
Im wondering if the political analyst described the deal to be so one-sided, why sri lanka signed that deal instead of walking away?
just west propaganda
Sri lanka has indebted itself, its ports will be taken over by Chinese government for next 100 years.
2004 tsunami devastated Sri Lanka and Chinese seized the opportunity
wy y the problem with your narrative is that China is in bed a bunch of country with strong dictatorship. What China is doing is bribing corrupt leaders in to selling their country while the people of the country do not get anything for it. It is a sugar daddy diplomacy and it is wrong!
They also made other deals in return for some shitty artillery and planes to hello cull the ltte. This is the cost of doing deal with the devil. Many countries have learnt the hard way if you let china sleep over for one night in your house when you wake up the next morning he will be charging you rent claiming it's his house.
30:11
Sri Lanka : we have the world's emptiest international airport
North Koreans in Pyongyang : hold my beer
Pyongyang has regular flights...but just 1 or 2, Sri Lanka had no flights :)
@@UninstallingWindows 🤣🤣🤣🤣 no flights 🤤Really
Look up Berlin Brandenburg Airport. The biggest empty airport of them all. The DW crew is so funny because they don't even remember the white elephant in their capital
@@Peichen01 that's truth
always seeing something in front of you while refusing to see things in the future, which means no plan for the future
Development is what people actually need.
Apparently the only theme is to discredit China but we the audience wants an objective view of BRI ‘s impact on the participating countries, no matter bad or good. You can’t reap the benefits without any cost.
sftu twerp
Well I thought that the true journalism has died. But thanks to DW media group. You people has given journalism a new life. And these documentaries are absolutely fantastic and realistic.
🤣😂
yeah kudos to DW....
Hilarious! This is pure anti-China propaganda not real journalism. Western powers will do anything to keep third world countries from developing specially if they're being helped by a rival like China
Nice scarsam 😂
Pakistani part is beautiful those mountains are mesmerizing..
The middle east is beautiful in general, if you visit you will see why religion has sprouted here.
@@kingboo843 pakistan is mostly south Asian and a little central asian though. Not middle east though lmao
That is actually Pakistan occupied Kashmir
@@karthikeyanm.v8381 it's Azad Kashmir Indian have occupied Kashmir
@@karthikeyanm.v8381 Ha ha whole world knows which kashmir is occupied which one is administered. Pakistan didn't killed one lac kashmiri people and raped more than ten thousand Kashmiri women India is the one who did all of this
"China's New Silk Road" is an eye-opening journey that reveals the grandeur and complexity of this monumental project. It offers valuable insights into China's global ambitions and the impact on the regions along the route. Thank you for shedding light on this significant endeavor.
Is that Batman music in the background? Haha very cool :)
You should also mention IMF and World bank on how they give loans. Then you find out China's ways are not even close to that.
yup , and look, china is bad.
@@theHadsan Maybe they should do like some other countries, destabilize the country, support rebels, support an armed conflict and then put a puppet president/dictator in place?
My city should hire the Chinese to complete the metro work. Its almost 10 years now and it is still not finished LOL
Its new international airport, about 40 kms. south of Beijing and scheduled to open on 30 September, took less than 4 years to complete the construction.
Dublin?🤣
10 years 🙄 for metro and i thought India was slow.
Must be Bogotá
They won't give you loan if they can't see any chance to trap your country. Haven't you learnt anything from thr documentary? Better to build own country with slow pace will full freedom than to build it instantly with poor quality with no freedom.
You would better include english subtitles as well!!!
Former Ancient Silk Roads is Good Situations Than Ever to joining the worldwide and Cooperations this's so Amazing for multiple developments 👍
Long live China 🇨🇳 and Pakistan 🇵🇰
Respect for building the most difficult highway
With love from ordinary Indian 🇮🇳
Wait, why the tune of this documentary appears to be so sarcastic. I thought the documentary should remain neutral and tell what it is in a third person's eye
EroSkulled Walter any person with some brain can see it's dept trap .
@@worthit5064 If it is really a trap the govt won't make a deal with China. there is something they can drain from the work China has done in their country, or in short, the benefit > its cost. Any person with some FUNCTIONAL brain can see the sweetness of taking risks.
EroSkulled Walter maybe your "Functional brain" doesn't see the situation of sri lanka and pakistan.
sri lanka have to give their port for 99 years. pakistan can't able to return the dept.
There's one backdraw of democracy , parties keep themselves in power , therefore they take dept from China at higher return prices even though they can't able to return that.
@@worthit5064 OKay, 99 years port usage for Srilanka, and what do they get in return (I do is not familiar with those situations cuz I'm not from Srilanka or Pakistan.)? For Pakistan, have you asked yourself why would they even loan from China if they can't return it? That's like you go to BOA or any bank and make a loan for a house. A few years later you tell the bank: sorry I can't pay the debt, and just walk away?
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.........Confucius: I never said that!
"The Chinese have taken over our city." Sounds like Sydney in Australia.
Oh shit you're right now remind me what happened to the aboriginals again?
"The White man has taken over our land"... sounds like Australia
@@cpa314 Canada and USA as well.
Chinese using Western technology and their colonial history to exploit developing countries.