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YouTube or listening to this podcast, it's a little bit different in that we recorded Peter

Frankapan, the author of The Silk Roads, a few weeks back, and he's been reflecting on the Silk Road's

10 years on. And then in the interim period, we had the dual attack on Iran, and so we asked Peter

to come back and just to give us a top-up. But if you stay with the episode, which we hope you will,

there's a short update of Peter's thinking, as we all try and process the implications of this

and whether there are conclusions being reached that in several months may turn out to be

hopelessly optimistic or unrealistically pessimistic. So I hope you enjoy the great Peter Francoban.

As we move into an era where the political, military and economic dominance of the West is

coming under pressure, the sense of uncertainty is unsettling. And while we ponder where the next

threat may come from, the network and connections are quietly being knitted together across the spine

of Asia, or rather they are being restored. The Silk Roads are rising again. Those are the closing

lines of the majestic opus that is the Silk Roads. The author, Peter Frankaband of Oxford University,

created a profound and enduring book that has been devoured around the world,

and with it has made its own mark in history.

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