Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of the World Economy?

Re:Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of t... by Joe-Z on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:47PM (#19037337)

>Unless you can expand on why this piece is "propaganda" or what exactly the article got wrong, why not enjoy the piece (or not) as a travel diary with the BRI as a broad geopolitical context?

Because it does not market itself as such. It makes some bold claim to answer a question that's probably interesting to a lot of people follwing BRI-developments. Instead it's 'I've visited the Kazakhstan-China border and talked to a few people', but I guess that headline doesn't attract as many clicks.

EDIT: Not the GP and I don't want to claim that this is propaganda.

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Re:Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere into the Center of t... by allemagne on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:54PM (#19038030)

I might agree that it isn't marketing itself as such if it wasn't written in the style of a first-person narrative, have "New York Times Magazine" banner across the top, and didn't have panoramic pictures every few paragraphs.

I don't know about you, but I react a lot differently to information presented in that format as opposed to something like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/business/china-foreign-po...

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