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Saturday University: China’s Belt and Road Initiative
January 18, 2019 @ 2:00 am - 3:30 am PST
$11
Seattle Art Museum – DOWNTOWN SEATTLE
The 21st Century Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative
David Bachman, University of Washington
China’s Belt and Road Initiative marks a major expansion in China’s growing world in international affairs. It now includes land and maritime silk roads, an arctic silk road and a digital silk road. Much of the developed world sees the Belt and Road as a Chinese strategy and power play, leading to debt traps and Chinese imperialism. But China’s motives are multiple and while there are indeed significant downsides to the Belt and Road, it is filling a number of global needs and national aspirations of the countries China works with.
About the Presenter David Bachman is Professor of Political Science and former Chair of the China Study Program at the University of Washington.
Please note: South Hall doors open at 9:30 am
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Authenticity and the Reproduction of Buddhist Art and Artifacts in Medieval China
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Zoroastrian and Manichean Arts of the Silk Roads
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Silk and the Logics of Cosmopolitan Empire in Tang China
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The 21st Century Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiativ
