Quelques semaines après la fin réelle du voyage, voici la 7ème partie de la Route de la Soie. Bien que le Kazakhstan ne soit pas vraiment sur la route, Ronan ne pouvait pas résister d'aller encore un peu plus loin. En quittant la familiarité de la Sibérie, de Omsk, il a dévié vers le sud. A Astana, il était accueilli par des visages...
Huitième partie - Laissant derrière moi la beauté brute et la mélancolie du Kazakhstan, je retourne en Russie. Ceci était presque inévitable à mes yeux, bien que les Routes de la Soie s'étendent dans toutes les directions...
Part six - After Thailand, Cambodia, China and Mongolia, Ronan the globereporter without border is now traveling across Russia, in the quest of reaching, by interviewing people on the Silk road, the origins of European identity.
Xi'An sits in reluctant silence, deep in China's South Western Interior. Unlike Shanghai or Hong Kong, Xi'An evokes something of China's distant past; an elegance and grandeur synonymous with millennia of the imperious middle kingdom.
After Xi‘An, I went north, to Beijing. The Chinese capital lacks both the contemporary extroversion of Shanghai or Hong Kong, and the historical link to the Silk Road. As symbol, this city serves a more austere purpose than any of the other centers of China. It is the Symbol of the undivided will of the mandate of heaven to rule over the middle...
My passage from Vietnam into the middle kingdom went smoothly, almost slickly. Customs officials handed across documents and carried out the most cursory of checks with an air of resignation, like partners joined in some sort of loveless arranged marriage. At the border at dusk, nobody even tried to cheat me of my currency.
Part two – after Thailand and Cambodia, Ronan the globereporter is now reaching Vietnamian borders, in the quest of founding, through the Silk road, the origins of European culture.
Part one of this trip starts in Bangkok, Thailand. It might equally start in Madrid, Java or on the empty plains of the Kazakh steppe - The Silk Road never was any one specific path, but rather a system of exchange through intermediaries. No Chinese Merchant of the Qin dynasty ever graced the streets of ancient Rome, but they certainly knew of...
Notre génération européenne doit faire face à des défis sans précédent. Cependant, parmi tous les discours sur la crise et le danger de désintégration, il existe de grandes opportunités. Des opportunités que nos dirigeants nationaux, plus intéressés par leur propre personne, ne parviennent pas à envisager. Des opportunités de forger...