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🗓️ 22 May 2024
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What are the methods that the Chinese Communist Party is using to exert its influence in the world? Heritage Vice President Victoria Coates and Michael Sobolik sit down to discuss Michael’s new book, the Belt and Road Initiative, and China’s influence around the world.
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0:11.9 | Without a heritage, every generation starts over. |
0:15.0 | To remind the current regime. |
0:18.0 | We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do. |
0:22.8 | All, all, have to get back in their box and stay there. |
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0:32.4 | From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. |
0:44.2 | Thank you. Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. A high-speed railway in Indonesia, a Greek port on the Mediterranean Sea, a railway linking the Kenyan |
0:52.4 | cities of Mombasa and Nairobi, solar installations in Zambia, hydroelectric power plants in Ethiopia. |
1:00.0 | What do all these things have in common? |
1:03.0 | They're all infrastructure projects, obviously, some recently completed, others currently underway. |
1:08.0 | But they are projects supported by the Chinese Communist Party as part of their Belt and Road initiative. |
1:15.2 | Of course, this might seem fine. |
1:16.8 | It's good to build roads, ports, and railways. |
1:19.6 | But as you might guess, the Chinese Communist Party is not just out to support economic development. |
1:25.6 | There are ulterior motives here, |
1:27.7 | and Americans must identify and counter those aims when necessary. |
1:32.5 | On today's episode of Heritage Explains, |
1:34.7 | Heritage Vice President Victoria Coates sat down |
1:37.3 | with author Michael Sobolik, |
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