Below, find a list of confirmed attendees at China’s Belt and Road Forum, to be held in Beijing May 14-15. Sources are hyperlinked wherever possible; entries without hyperlinks are based on statements provided to The Diplomat.
- Afghanistan: Unspecified minister-level delegation
- Argentina: President Mauricio Macri
- Australia: Trade Minister Steve Ciobo
- Azerbaijan: Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev
- Bangladesh: Unspecified minister-level delegation
- Belarus: President Alexander Lukashenko
- Brazil: Secretary for Strategic Affairs Hussein Ali Kalout
- Cambodia: Prime Minister Hun Sen
- Chile: President Michelle Bachelet
- China: President Xi Jinping
- Czech Republic: President Milos Zeman
- Egypt: Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil
- Ethiopia: Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
- Fiji: Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama
- Finland: Minister of Transport and Communications of Finland Anne Berner
- France: Jean-Pierre Raffarin, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Defense and Armed Forces in the French Senate
- Germany: Minister of Economic Affairs Brigitte Zypries
- Greece: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
- Hungary: Prime Minister Viktor Orban
- Indonesia: President Joko Widodo
- Iran: Minister of Economy and Finance Ali Tayebnia
- Italy: Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni
- Japan: LDP Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai
- Kazakhstan: President Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta
- Kyrgyzstan: President Almazbek Atambayev
- Kuwait: Minister of the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber
- Laos: President Bounnhang Vorachith
- Malaysia: Prime Minister Najib Razak
- Maldives: Economic Minister Mohamed Saeed
- Mongolia: Prime Minister Jargaltulga Erdenebat
- Myanmar: State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi
- Romania: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment Gratiela Gavrilescu
- Nepal: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara
- New Zealand: Science and Innovation Minister Paul Goldsmith
- North Korea: Confirmed to be sending an official delegation; the delegation will be led by Kim Yong-jae, the North Korean minister of external economic relations, according to a number of South Korean media reports
- Pakistan: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
- Philippines: President Rodrigo Duterte
- Poland: Prime Minister Beata Szydło
- Russia: President Vladimir Putin
- Saudi Arabia: Minister of Energy, Industry, and Mineral Resources Khalid Al-Falih
- Serbia: Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic
- Singapore: Minister for National Development and Second Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong
- South Korea: Ambassador to China Kim Jang-soo; Park Byeong-seug, National Assembly member for the Democratic Party
- Spain: Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
- Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
- Switzerland: President Doris Leuthard
- Syria: unspecificed minister-level delegation
- Thailand: five ministers: Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Transportation Arkhom Termpittayapaisith, Minister of Commerce Apiradi Tantraporn, Minister of Digital for Economy and Society Pichet Durongkaveroj, and Minister of Science and Technology Atchaka Sibunruang
- Tunisia: Culture Minister Mohamed Zine El-Abidine
- Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- UAE: Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of State and Group CEO of ADNOC
- Ukraine: unspecified official delegation
- United Kingdom: Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond
- United States: Matt Pottinger, National Security Council senior director for Asia
- Uzbekistan: President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- Vietnam: President Tran Dai Quang
“No Small Thing” – GCR/RV Geopolitical Overview – Saturday – May 13, 2017
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In acting school they like to teach that there are no small parts, only small actors.
But audition for enough medical incontinence infomercials and that philosophy is blown to smithereens quickly.
However, if you want to make something that’s really big appear as really small, break it up into 1,000 little pieces and hand over a huge loaf of bread as hundreds of tiny pieces.
That’s what the NPTB did with the GCR/RV roll out in terms of public disclosure–and also why it also took so damn long to convert your currencies.
Something as big as the global transition of the world’s monetary authority should never appear immanently real for safety’s sake.
Meaning, anonymity through relative obscurity via “random press releases” and “uncoordinated events” is the most prudent pathway to releasing such a massive blessing out to the most people humanly possibly.
Believe it, don’t believe it… that is what happened over these last several years and is still happening today, right now.
This is a really good lesson for those of us redeeming large volumes of currency this coming week.
The bigger we are financially, the smaller we should appear publicly in order to accomplish the greatest good for others.
Just saying. Think about keeping your profile low and ego even lower. Humility is your greatest protector being this wealthy.
Listed below are major individual events that have all been scheduled in what appears to be separate events this weekend, but in actuality they are coordinated in precise lock-step, and happening in real time, all over the world, during this glorious and historic period (Saturday or Sunday depending on your time zone).
So drink it in D-Land. Marinated in the mercy while it last because it won’t for long.
This is the last worthless weekend you’ll ever have to spend in financial irrelevance and abject poverty.
God is with us.
I am really glad, about the amount of countries involved this is Fantastic, “I HOPE”
The countries not listed Mm Not surprised there. But that says alot too.
Go B.R.I.C.S Bit worried about south Africa Mmm
Yes– I am South African to the bone and although Russia, Brazil and of course China, are all at this first and brilliant milestone “One Belt One Road” Summit– why is SA and India not there?? India very much into the west’s one way road to hell, I presume … but part of BRICS, tiny as SA is– that’s where we should be right now– nothing stopping us from being there surely! Found it sickening, when I searched and no SA! Great concern mounting in my heart for our beloved country’s future …. Political bedlam the order of the day right now…