The caravan traveling to India Image Credit: Public Domain / Abraham Cresques, 1375 Looking for good publications on the Belt and Road Initiative? Ignore the ones with maps. (Well, maybe not all.) By Krzysztof Iwanek May 25, 2018 Each conference should have at least one brain-disabling paper. You know, the one during which you doze off to recharge your mental batteries, prepare your own paper which will be in the next panel, or check out your mobile phone (don’t forget to sit behind somebody, ideally somebody tall). Recently, the most brain-disabling presentations have been the ones that focus on maps of the Belt and Road Initiative (once referred to as the “New Silk Road”). I am obviously exaggerating here, but this plague has become so widespread that countering it requires strong language. PowerPoint Instead of Points of Power Enjoying this article? Click here to subscribe for full access. Just $5 a month. My beef is with the “Xinhua maps” – the rather ridiculous maps
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