Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "What's behind China's focus on the Arab world? | DW News" video.

"A new era" by Chinese standards is about a dozen or so business deals that'll last less than a decade.
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No. They bearly even knew of each other's existence until the Age of Discovery. A few diplomats and traders are known to have gotten that far west but that's it
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@ComeForPeace I'm a military historian. The silk road was never a direct line of contact, very few people traveled even half its length. In fact, one Chinese diplomat arrived near modern Kuwait and he was searching for the Roman Empire he had heard rumors of, but due to the language barrier, he got the impression he'd have to sail around the Arabian Peninsula which due to weather could take as much as a year, so he turned around. There's one reference to a later Roman Emperor receiving a diplomat we think was Chinese, though
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Definitely English. MBS speaks it.
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@chinavirus841 You don't even know who the byzantines were, do you? You're evidently making this up as you go along
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@chinavirus841 "Europe" includes some states that were part of middle eastern empires. The Franks even ruled much of Syria for a time, and part of Europe was once part of the Arab world.
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No one is welcome in Saudi Arabia
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@someone_7233 You just proved the point, you don't know the most basic facts involved. I bet you wouldn't know much about Chinese history either, like where the Russian Chinese come from.
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@sereniki82 Not directly. There was no actual road that was the Silk Road, but really just a series of overlapping trade routes. By your logic Wales also had a long trade history with China since we found silk from that period in a Welsh royal grave.
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Lose the sycophancy
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@shineluvslambiel don't you have a quarantine fence to set up?
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Besides being physically impossible, neither side has the funds or expertise for such development
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@ohcharlie428 come on, you know it ain't happening
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@ohcharlie428 Overland shipping costs several times what cargo ships will charge
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@TS-zp7pe They literally didn't. Most of the water in China isn't even fit for farming, and the proposed north-south cannals do not exist at this time. Even if they did, many argue that most of the water would be lost to evaporation whilst southern China has come to depend on prodigious amounts of water will have to make adjustments.
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@TS-zp7pe That is not what I said. I said most of the water in China, the country, is fit for nothing, not even farming. Also, major draughts have occurred in much of China within the past few years
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 @mengreat6982 irrelevant
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Lose the sycophancy
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