Talk:21st Century Maritime Silk Road

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Proposal to Merge

There's a box asking opinions on whether to merge "Maritime Silk road" and "One Belt One Road."

I'd be in favour of the merge. The topic is going to grow and evolve over the coming decade, and there are three main topics here, it seems to me: the historic, perhaps somewhat notional or at least exaggerated, Chinese maritime shipping, the current developments along this olde route, and the CCTV TV series of the same name.

"One Belt One Road" is merely Chinglish, a translation of some off-the-cuff phrase from the 中共中央宣传部, or perhaps from one of President Xi's speeches. I guess there's going to have to be a disambiguation entry at some point. If Chinese contributors to "One Belt One Road expand on it, then there would be a need to reconsider its importance.

I don't have the skills to do any of this yet, and would appreciate advice from anybody who does, and who's interested in the topic.

Some circumspection is called for in all of this: the existence of the ancient maritime Chinese shipping route is no doubt factual, Admiral He and all that, and it is a factor in Chinese minds in the current reassertion of China's place in the world. The TV program Maritime Silk Road shows maps that are ver-ree like the nine-dashes map that appears in diplomatic claims to the "Paracels," 西沙，or Hoàng Sa.

We must remind ourselves that "a place in the Sun" was the Kaiser's innocent slogan from the late nineteenth century on. Combined with the ignorance and stupidity of the Anglo powers that led to WWI.

As the South China Sea matter proceeds, any number of journalists are going to be consulting Wikipedia, among other things, to get their bearings in what it's all about, so I think we all have an enhanced responsibility to be neutral and comprehensive in posting on these subjects.

David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 17:20, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

• Support merger. This article is not substantive on its own. So far the concept has not developed beyond talking points by Chinese and their allied govts. --Voidvector (talk) 20:21, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

• Support merger. The maritime silk road is effectively a part of the one belt, one road project led by China and as such having a separate article for the maritime silk road is not holistic in the larger sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.100.177.36 (talk) 05:22, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

• Oppose: This appears to be the start of a major development, and needs the space for an article to develop. Merging constrains editing as one try not to become over-prominent on the host page. --ClemRutter (talk) 08:43, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Proposal to merge with Maritime Silk Road

This article is about the same thing. --Daviddwd (talk) 03:53, 28 December 2018 (UTC)