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1. Various of Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of think tank Schiller Institute, in interview
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder, Schiller Institute:
"We had conferences and seminars about this in five continents, hundreds of conferences. And when Xi Jinping announced the new Silk Road, we were very happy because now you had the power of the second largest economy of the world doing what we had been only talking about in terms of plans."

FILE: Chongqing Municipality, southwest China - June 8, 2016 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of China-Europe freight train running

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4. Various of containers at inland port terminal, trucks, cranes handling containers
5. Freight train pulling away from station

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder, Schiller Institute (starting with shot 5):
"This has taken on a very, very good hold and it's a completely new paradigm in international relations. We experienced the creation of a completely new system of international relations, and I think that will become even more clear in the coming Belt and Road Forum, because in the meantime, a lot of things have happened: positive development, but also more attacks on China, but also more developing countries defending China against the accusations of debt trap and all of these arguments, because it also has brought for these developing countries an incredible hope and optimism that they can overcome poverty, for the first time they have this perspective."

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7. Aerial shot of port, containers

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8. Aerial shot of Mombasa railway station
9. Passengers on train
10. National flags of Kenya (L), China (R) in carriage

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11. Aerial shots of train moving

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12. Various of cooling towers, power line of South African electricity public utility

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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder, Schiller Institute (partially overlaid with shots 14-15):
"It's not just about economic cooperation. Other aspects of the new Silk Road will become more prominent like the cultural Silk Road, the dialogue of cultures of the best additions of our countries. But also the space Silk Road. So I think the perspective is very bright, I think it's a new model of international relations which has not existed before, and it corresponds to the nature of men and therefore I think it will succeed."

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14. National flags of China, Laos outside classroom
15. Various of Chinese class in progress
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FILE: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - June 8, 2016 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
16. Aerial shots of China-Europe freight train

Cooperation among nations under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative is a new paradigm in international relations, according to Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder of international political and economic think tank Schiller Institute in a recent interview with China Global Television Network.

Zepp-LaRouche, along with her late husband -- American political activist Lyndon LaRouche, have long been promoting the idea of an Eurasian Land Bridge to increase connectivity and cooperation for the development of the continent. Zepp-LaRouche says China is putting ideas many only talk about into action.

"We had conferences and seminars about this in five continents, hundreds of conferences. And when Xi Jinping announced the new Silk Road, we were very happy because now you had the power of the second largest economy of the world doing what we had been only talking about in terms of plans," he said.

For the upcoming second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, Zepp-LaRouche says the gathering will have historic significance as it brings forth a "new paradigm in international relations".

"This has taken on a very, very good hold and it's a completely new paradigm in international relations. We experienced the creation of a completely new system of international relations, and I think that will become even more clear in the coming Belt and Road Forum, because in the meantime, a lot of things have happened: positive development, but also more attacks on China, but also more developing countries defending China against the accusations of debt trap and all of these arguments, because it also has brought for these developing countries an incredible hope and optimism that they can overcome poverty, for the first time they have this perspective," he said.

A long supporter of the Belt and Road Initiative, Zepp-LaRouche says she has full-faith in its success in economic cooperation and beyond.

"It's not just about economic cooperation. Other aspects of the new Silk Road will become more prominent like the cultural Silk Road, the dialogue of cultures of the best additions of our countries. But also the space Silk Road. So I think the perspective is very bright, I think it's a new model of international relations which has not existed before, and it corresponds to the nature of men and therefore I think it will succeed," said Zepp-LaRouche.