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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 341: China's Belt and Road Iniative
Description: The boys drink and review a kolsch, then discuss China's Belt and Road Initiative.
They start with a quick review of the Persian Royal Road and the Silk Road, then bring things into the modern era with China's desire to control worlwide commerce.
In the hopes it would lead China towards freedom, the west brought China into the modern world by giving them favored trading status. That pumped cheap good into the west and revitalized China's economy.
But China isn't content with being the cheap labor force for the world, and is trying...