The New Silk Roads Quotes

“The decisions being made in today’s world that really matter are not being made in Paris, London, Berlin or Rome—as they were a hundred years ago—but in Beijing and Moscow, in Tehran and Riyadh, in Delhi and Islamabad, in Kabul and in Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, in Ankara, Damascus and Jerusalem.”
― Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

“Nostalgia can have an intoxicating and powerful effect. Looking back through rose-tinted spectacles can create false pasts that cherry-pick only the very best, while ignoring the worst and the mundane. While harking back to a previous golden age often triggers warm memories of supposedly better times, the process can be deceptive, misleading and wrong. In fact, today’s world is better in almost every single way than the world of the past.”
― Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

“Schoolkinderen worden snel groot (sneller dan wij volgens de krantenberichten), en ze moeten onze wereld gaan begrijpen. Lezen is een manier om de volgende generatie te helpen om te leren en te denken, maar net zo belangrijk is het om te blijven kijken naar het verleden. Ik hoop dat beide boeken mensen bij elkaar brengen. Het begrijpen van de geschiedenis is niet alleen interessant, het is bijzonder belangrijk.”
― Peter Frankopan, De nieuwe zijderoutes

“Documents declassified in 2017 recording meetings held between the British minister in Washington in 1952, Sir Christopher Steel, and the assistant secretary of state, Henry Byroade, to discuss a coup to depose the prime minister of Iran help us gain a clearer understanding of how the ill-fated plans took shape.”
― Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

“The release of documents that show how the US urged Belgium to withdraw its United Nations peace-keeping force from Rwanda in the 1990s to stop the United States being drawn into violence hardly casts the West’s behaviour in even the recent past in a good light,”
― Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

“At the end of 2018, Trump lost patience altogether, announcing plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, offering a cease-fire to the Taliban”
― Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

“Asia y las rutas de la seda están ascendiendo, y lo hacen con rapidez. No lo hacen aisladas de Occidente y tampoco en competencia con él. De hecho, lo que ocurre es todo lo contrario: el ascenso de Asia está estrechamente relacionado con las economías desarrolladas de Estados Unidos, Europa y otros países. La demanda de recursos, bienes, servicios y talento en estas últimas ha estimulado el crecimiento de la primera, pues ha creado empleos y oportunidades y ha servido como un catalizador para el cambio. El éxito de una parte del mundo está vinculado al éxito de la”
― Peter Frankopan, Las nuevas rutas de la seda: Presente y futuro del mundo (Serie Mayor)

“The King of Zhao in north-eastern China, who ruled nearly 2,500 years ago, declared that, ‘A talent for following the ways of yesterday is not sufficient to improve the world of today.”
― Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World