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# The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

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## Customer Reviews

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    Not a sequel, and not a history book, either
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019*

I enjoyed reading the author's first book, the silk road, and followed up immediately with this book. Big mistake.This book reads like a political commentary catered to readers with strong negative feelings toward the current US administration. The emphasis would be justified if brexit, Trump, and other similar events in the past few years turned out to be historical pivotal events, but we do not know, and this is a question best left to future generations of historians.As a fan of his first book, I wished he did not write this book. There are plenty of books on China's ambitions, there are plenty of books arguing for and against the current US adminstration, and there are no shortage of books on the US China relationship. This book adds neither new material nor insights. Other than the catchy title, I don't recall learning anything from reading this book.

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    Disappointing
  

*by R***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019*

I thought Frankopan's "The Silk Roads" was outstanding, educational and a real page turner for someone like me who devours well written well documented history.  "The Silk Roads" is highly recommended, the "New Silk Roads" mmm.....not so much.  By the time I slogged past the middle of the book I knew it was primarily not so well concealed commentary of the type anyone can see on CNN or MSNBC every day of the week.  Suffering through page 178 was bad enough but when I got to page 179 and read that the U.S. had forcibly injected children of illegal immigrants/asylum seekers with drugs , leaving them unable to walk, afraid of people and wanting to sleep all the time, I'd had enough and put it down.  I  stopped watching CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and ABC run around with their hair on fire three years ago.  I didn't pass this book on as I normally do, I threw it away.

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    A ball of fluff -- just a terribly disappointing compendium of statements with almost no analysis
  

*by J***G on Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2019*

When Frankopan's The New Silk Roads was selected by a book club to which I belong, I was very excited.  Unfortunately, the book is a terrible disappointment.  If you are looking for a repetitive compilation of statements by Chinese, Russian, and other leaders of their ambitions, along with a wide-ranging but poorly organized criticism of Trump Administration statements and policies, Frankopan's book is for you.  But if you are looking for anything but the most superficial analysis of real global trends and developments, or any useful indication of what policies the U.S., the EU and other elements of the West should follow, there is nothing to see here.As a former diplomat, professor of international relations, and harsh critic of Trump's foreign policy (as well as the Iraq War and other U.S. misadventures), I find a few items in The New Silk Roads that might influence my views.  But there is no real framework for evaluating the abundance of repetitive and random facts (or, more often, reports and statements) that fill paragraph after mind-numbing paragraph in this book.  It is not a difficult read; Frankopan is a good writer.  But it is a terribly light read.  There is no indication at all that Frankopan did serious research for this volume.  And his evaluation of sources is terribly wanting -- a serious shortcoming for a professional historian. I have not read Frankopan's earlier The Silk Roads.  It must be vastly better than this, given the reviews.  The New Silk Roads was certainly inspired by the earlier volume.  Inspired, it seems, by the thought "I can make a lot more money without any real work."

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