The LaRouche movement has played a unique role in developing proposals for international economic development and in setting into motion trends of policy making that are now increasingly prevalent in the world. In 1997, with the end of the Cold War and the potential for international cooperation around the common aims of mankind, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche proposed the “Eurasian Land-Bridge” as a “New Silk Road … for Worldwide Economic Development.” After the 2013 announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping of the Belt and Road Initiative (a proposal in resonance with the LaRouche proposal), the LaRouche movement published the first volume of “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge,”a 374-page report that integrates major development projects from around the world, under the framework of the economic approach founded by Lyndon LaRouche.
We are happy to announce the publication of this second volume, “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge: A Shared Future for Humanity,” in which we bring you an updated picture of the progress of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, including detailed region-by-region analysis and newly updated maps. We also highlight the principles of physical economy and economic metrics discovered by Lyndon LaRouche, upon which the possibility of uplifting the standard of living of humanity depends. We examine the strategic relation of the Western nations to the emerging new paradigm, and what challenges must be overcome in order to overcome the old-paradigm approach of British geopolitics and replace it with LaRouche’s top-down program for overcoming economic collapse in the West.
As Schiller Institute founder and chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche has said, “I think that the New Silk Road is a typical example of an idea whose time had come; and once an idea is in that way becoming a material reality, it becomes a physical force in the universe.”
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
A Shared Future for Humanity, Helga Zepp-LaRouche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Optimism and Vision: Two Speeches of Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The New Silk Road, a New Model for International Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Bad Soden, Germany, November 25, 2017
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Dialogue of Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Zhuhai, China, November 29, 2017
The Schiller Institute: Decades of Fighting for a New, Just World Economic Order . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
II. PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICAL ECONOMY
Economic Principles of a New Paradigm: Lyndon LaRouche’s Discoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
The Strategic Defense of Earth for the Universal Progress of Man:
What Does LaRouche’s SDI Mean Today? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
The LaRouche Doctrine: Draft Memorandum of Agreement
Between the United States and the U.S.S.R., Lyndon LaRouche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
III. PROGRESS REPORTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
China: Development for a Shared Future for Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Russia: In the New Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Central and South Asia: The Hub of the New Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Southwest Asia: Reconstruction for a New Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , ,138
The Belt and Road: Transforming Southeast Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
The Necessary Solution to the Crisis on the Korean Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
The New Silk Road Reaches Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 174
Europe: Western Terminal of the New Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
The Future of the Americas Lies with the New Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
The Arctic: The Ice Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
IV. TRANS-ATLANTIC AT THE CROSSROADS
The United States Strategic Relation to the New Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
Will Europe Finally Join the New Silk Road? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
V. WITHOUT LAROUCHE’S ‘FOUR LAWS,’
FINANCIAL CRASH MEANS CHAOS
The Danger of a New Financial Crash without Glass-Steagall Bank Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
‘Four Laws’ for the New Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350
‘Glass-Steagall’ Bank Separation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
‘Hamiltonian’ National Credit and National Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Credit for Increased Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .364
A Crash Program for Fusion Power, Plasma Technology, and Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
The Four New Laws to Save the USA Now! Not An Option: An Immediate Necessity,
Lyndon LaRouche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
VI. MOVING 50 YEARS AHEAD
2068—A Retrospective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Earth’s Next 50 Years: The Space Silk Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
The Dialogue of Eurasian Civilizations: Earth’s Next 50 Years, Lyndon LaRouche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400
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