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???????? Part 76. Tbilisi ???? Vladikavkaz. 221km
The most spontaneous day of the entire trip.
The day before I got bad news. The rain and landslides destroyed about 80m of the road connecting Georgia to Russia, and the only border crossing got closed until further notice. A part of the missing road can be seen on the second photo, which I got from the border crossing news feed. The nearby villages and even the border staff got evacuated. No joke. Estimated time needed to repair the road and resume the traffic was announced to be 7-10 days.
Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep that night.
I needed a new plan. The only other way to get to Russia would be by crossing Azerbaijan, adding just about 10 extra hours to the trip. Not too bad. But there was one problem. Azerbaijan land borders are still closed because of covid19. But I’ve heard one can get a special permission from the embassy to transit the country.
So first thing in the morning I went to the Azerbaijan embassy, where I met at least 30 other people with the same idea in mind. And all got rejected. No special permits issued. Done.
I went back home, prepared breakfast. Trying not to get frustrated because of the cancelled plans. Looks like I’m not going to Russia for at least a week, or probably more. Let’s find something fun to do in the meantime. Let’s explore Armenia! So I started planning.
Around 1pm I get a message that there’s some movement at the border, and some cars were let across. Wait. Can this be real? Can the border be open? For how long? What if it will still be open in 3-4 hours?….
Should I try?
Of course I should!
Worst case I turn around and come back to Tbilisi.
It took me 30 min to pack and get ready.
I was so excited, that I didn’t even have any breaks along the way.
As I was riding I kept looking for cars with Russian number plates, every time I saw one, I got super happy. It meant that the border was open.
Such a beautiful road, gorgeous mountains, breathtaking views. But no time to stop and enjoy. Next time! Now go cross that border!
At the border crossing I met another biker, Denis.
Customs:
- Do you have any forbidden items?
Denis:
- Is khachapuri forbidden?
Customs:
- No.
Denis (looking at me):
- Are you hungry? I do have khachapuri.
Me:
- I’m starving.
We rode a couple of km away from the border and stopped for a picnic in the middle of a valley surrounded by amazing mountains. The sun was starting to set. The bikes were covered with dirt from the road. The khachapuri was still warm. The conversation was flowing. None of it seemed real. But there it was, the ultimate peace and happiness.
The Truth About China - Jason Yat-Sen Li, Kevin Rudd, Yaqui Wang, Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, Peter Harcher
FODI Digital 09-10 MAY 2020.
Presented by The Ethics Centre, FODI Digital is a digital conversation series with leading thinkers and commentators on today’s dangerous realities, live streamed for free on the FODI website. The series of online conversations takes inspiration from the original FODI 2020 theme of ‘Dangerous Realities’.
The Truth About China
09 MAY 2020 - 11:00AM AEST
SPEAKERS: JASON YAT-SEN LI, KEVIN RUDD, YAQIU WANG, VICKY XIUZHONG XU, PETER HARTCHER
Chair: Peter Hartcher
CONTENTS:
0:02:01 - Kevin Rudd in conversation with Peter Hartcher
0:21:09 - Jason Yat-Sen Li, Yaqui Wang, Vicky Xiuzhong Xu panel with Peter Hartcher
Australia is ‘dancing with elephants’; seduced by the economic promise of China while bound to the military might of the USA. Conventional wisdom has it that we should carefully steer a middle path. However, an escalation in global tensions, supercharged by the blame-game around COVID-19, threatens to shatter the prospects of equilibrium. Instead, Australia has reached a fork in the road.
If we are destined to choose – let’s at least try to make an informed decision.
Jason Yat-Sen Li is currently Chairman of investment group Vantage Asia and Managing Director of corporate advisory firm YSA. YSA specialises in complex cross-border, China-related M&A and capital raising mandates.
Jason is a Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate (non-executive Director), the Sydney Committee for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on China. He was previously a non-executive director of the George Institute for Global Health, Vice Chair of the Australia-China Chamber of Commerce, a Director of the Sydney Institute and a Governing Member of the Smith Family.
Jason completed an Arts-Law degree at the University of Sydney and a Masters of Law at New York University, where he was Australia’s Hauser Global Scholar. He was formerly Head of China Strategy for Insurance Australia Group and Head of Sales & Marketing for IAG’s China operations. His work on road safety in China won the China PR Association Silver Medal for Best Campaign in 2005. Jason has also worked as a commercial lawyer for Corrs Chambers Westgarth in Sydney and Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.
Kevin Rudd is Chair of the Board of the International Peace Institute, and Chair of Sanitation and Water for All. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House in London, a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute in Chicago, and a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons. Mr. Rudd is a member of the Concordia Leadership Council. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University, and is an Honorary Professor at Peking University. Mr. Rudd is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. He also remains actively engaged in indigenous reconciliation.
Yaqiu Wang is a China researcher at Human Rights Watch. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic and China Brief, and elsewhere.
Vicky Xiuzhong Xu is a researcher for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Cyber Policy Centre.
Previously, she was a journalist for The New York Times Sydney Bureau, covering general news with a focus on China-Australia relations. She also covered China and Chinese diaspora communities for Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Asia Pacific Newsroom in Melbourne.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Melbourne. During her exchange semester in Jerusalem, she researched One Belt One Road, China-Iran and China-Turkey relations at The Harry S. Truman Research Institute.
While we believe in freedom of speech, the views and opinions expressed by the speakers are not necessarily the views of The Ethics Centre and our partners.