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Media Release  Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
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The alternative to economic collapse and war:

Zepp-LaRouche presents EIR’s New Silk Road report at Beijing symposium

While Australia pursues its Jekyll-and-Hyde foreign policy of embracing China economically but participating in Obama’s “Asia Pivot” escalation against China militarily, the Citizens Electoral Council is issuing the following report from LaRouchePAC, to bring to the attention of the Australian people the growing momentum for a new paradigm of international relations, based on peace through economic development.

The Chinese edition of Executive Intelligence Review’s special report The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge was officially presented by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, at a 29 September symposium sponsored by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Beijing’s Renmin University. A new think tank established to provide analysis and policy recommendations as China and the world enters a new era of international relations, the Chongyang Institute is also a co-sponsor of the Chinese-language report.

The genesis of a new paradigm

Zepp-LaRouche explained her role in the germination of the idea known in China as “One Belt, One Road”. When the Soviet Union broke up, she and her husband, the economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, had expanded the series of development programs they had worked on for decades into a scheme to link the entire Eurasian continent with a high-speed rail system, bringing the land-locked and newly independent nations of Central Asia, and the vast underpopulated and underdeveloped regions of Asiatic Russia, into the mainstream of international commerce and trade. The LaRouches dubbed this “The Eurasian Landbridge.”

Early-1990s discussions with representatives of the Chinese government led to a 1996 conference in Beijing devoted to the implementation of this project, organised under the auspices of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, where Zepp-LaRouche addressed leading experts from China and 34 other Eurasian countries. But the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and the Russia crisis of 1998 stalled the project, and it was only in September 2013 that Chinese President Xi Jinping revived the notion in his famous speech at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, where he called for the creation of a Silk Road Economic Belt to unite Europe and Asia.

The concept of the New Silk Road points towards a new paradigm for mankind, Zepp-LaRouche told her audience, replacing the “geopolitics” which caused two world wars in the 20th century with the idea of the common aims of mankind, as reflected in Xi Jinping’s “win-win policy.”

She then elaborated on the crisis in the Middle East and the massive flow of refugees into Europe from areas torn by Bush and Obama’s (and Blair and Cameron’s) wars. Many European nations now recognise that there must be a change in policy to address the root causes of the refugee crisis, she said. It is not enough to fight so-called Islamic extremists militarily; there must also be a real economic reconstruction of the entire region to create a future for the young people now being attracted to violent jihad.

“We can extend the Silk Road to the Middle East”, she said, “creating centres of development. We can make the deserts bloom and create new cities. The New Silk Road can become a peace order for the twenty-first century. If successful, it will create a new age of civilisation, and if it fails, we will enter a new dark age.”

Reversing 40 years of disaster

Following Zepp-laRouche’s presentation, EIR’s Washington Bureau Chief William Jones recalled how, at the UN General Assembly in 1976, Western leaders had rejected then-Foreign Minister of Guyana Fred Wills’ call for a New World Economic Order and a debt moratorium for developing nations, and instead entered a four-decade inflationary expansion of the financial system. “President Xi’s project … offers now the possibility of reversing that”, Jones said. “The world stands in amazement over China’s development in the last few decades, and now China is offering a similar development for the rest of the world.”

Appreciation by experts

These two presentations were followed by comments from eight leading Chinese scholars representing the fields of strategy, international development, economics and finance. All had read the report, and praised it as encapsulating exactly the approach needed to supersede geopolitics and engender fruitful co-operation among all nations. Several of them also noted the Schiller Institute’s role as a key initiator of the New Silk Road project, and Lyndon LaRouche’s unique contribution to the science of economy. All symposium participants received a copy of the report, and the Chongyang Institute will distribute 1,000 more to a wide cross-section of Chinese political and intellectual circles.

The high-level participation in the event by Chinese scholars, and the sponsorship by the prestigious Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, underscored the fact that the EIR report has now become an authoritative source for Chinese scholars in pursuing the “One Belt, One Road” project. The economic concepts championed by Lyndon LaRouche over 50-plus years have now become a staple for the intellectual layers in the most populous country in the world.

Click here to read a detailed report on the symposium by EIR’s William Jones.

Click here for a free copy of the proceedings of the CEC’s March 2015 international conference on the New Silk Road as the pathway for peace through economic development, entitled, “The World Land-Bridge: Peace on Earth, Good Will towards All Men”.

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