EIR Frankfurt Seminar on New Silk Road as Alternative to War

A seminar sponsored by Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) on the New Silk Road/BRICS alternative to the trans-Atlantic drive for war, drew about 40 guests in Frankfurt Wednesday afternoon, some of whom traveled from cities as far as 2-3 hours away. In addition to the keynote by EIR Editorial Board member and Schiller Institute founder/chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche, speakers included Prof. Shi Ze, Senior Research Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies; former Greek ambassador and diplomat Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos; the director of the Malaysian Investment Development Agency, S. Sundara Raja; and the Ethiopian Consul-General in Frankfurt. The audience included several more representatives of the diplomatic community in Frankfurt, notably the Vice-Consul of China, Mr. Fang.

Particularly the presentations by the speakers from China, Greece, Malaysia, and Ethiopia brought a lively message across to those attending that their four home countries have learned lessons from political and economic mistakes of the past: They no longer listen to the dubious and mostly catastrophic advice of the IMF experts and the Western monetarist bankers, but focus instead on policies that serve the development of the national real economy and the well-being of their citizens. No geopolitics, no spheres of influence. All four countries are making progress, and the development of the BRICS is viewed as a great potential that can and will be tapped—for the benefit of all nations. The BRICS and New Silk Road being the only real alternatives to the ailing globalized monetarist system which Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche spoke about in her keynote, became quite visible in those four detailed presentations from and about China, Greece, Malaysia, and Ethiopia.