Soybean growers can't create a trade route where one doesn't exist.
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Assad's aims include reopening the crossing to Jordan, a vital trade route.
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I think that we basically set up this trade route across Canada.
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The kingdom was once an important stop on the old silk trade route.
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Clearly, someone's either using Florida as a trade route, or is planning an assassination.
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Additionally, completing a trade route will establish a trading post at the far end.
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This reflects Chinese thinking that the U.K. will be influential in promoting the trade route.
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Our writer spent 12 days following the ancient trade route through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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And it would give the regime control of the north-south highway, a vital trade route.
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He discovered a new trade route to unchartered territory, and international business would soon open up.
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That's unlikely, the new study says, because Roopkund "is not situated on any major trade route."
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Donkeys were inevitably part of this trade route, but actual evidence of their presence is rare.
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But now, that ice is melting, opening up a new trade route for Russia's cargo ships.
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The Silk Road, the main international caravan trade route between Asia and Western Europe, passed through here.
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A vital component of the land trade route, the "Silk Road Economic Belt," runs through Central Asia.
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Kenya is East Africa's biggest economy and a crucial trade route into the rest of the continent.
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It's quite possible that he purchased it from merchants along a trade route, as per the researchers.
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The trade route eventually diminished after seacraft that could safely navigate the treacherous Red Sea were developed.
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This has led to confrontations between China and some of its neighbors over the strategic trade route.
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Once a trade route is completed, a road will automatically connect its point of origin to the destination.
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"It will become a trade route for sure, but it will happen over time," said one ship broker.
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International antipiracy patrols on the crucial trade route had calmed such attacks, which once numbered in the hundreds.
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Through the deal, Hapag-Lloyd gains access to bigger ships on the important Asia to Europe trade route.
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Although the region is remote today, it may once have sat on the Silk Road, a key trade route.
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Through the UASC merger, it would gain access to bigger ships on the important Asia to Europe trade route.
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Rwanda relies for much of its imports on a trade route through Uganda to Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
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This suggests a long-distance trade route might have existed between central Italy and the Alps some 5,300 years ago.
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A stalemate went on for 8 months until the Allies evacuated, unsuccessful in their mission to open the trade route.
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In his famous voyage, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain in 85033 to find a western trade route to China.
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It is mostly a history of jihad in Mali, which for centuries lay on the trade route across the Sahara.
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Researchers also attribute weed's proliferation to the "Hexi Corridor," a Bronze Age trade route that long predated the Silk Road.
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The researchers' work helped reconstruct an art trade route that existed across western Europe from the 12th to 17th centuries.
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Rwanda depends for much of its imports on a trade route through Uganda to Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
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A signature policy of Xi, it is a modern take on the Silk Road trade route from Europe to China.
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Rwanda depends for much of its imports on a trade route through Uganda to Kenya's Indian Ocean seaport of Mombasa.
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"Surveillance of this trade route should be intensified and vaccination of people living along it should be top priority," he said.
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The sea is a vital trade route with more than $3 trillion in ship-borne trade passing through it every year.
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When two root systems overlap, and with the help of some beneficial fungi, a trade route can open up between trees.
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Now, as he campaigns, he's planning his biggest one yet: a canal that would open a new, Turkish-owned trade route.
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Poling said it would be a major step on China's road to dominating the South China Sea, a key global trade route.
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CEFC's tie-up with Rosneft is also seen as a strategic deal that fits Beijing's ambitious Belt and Road trade route initiative.
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Notably, the storefront in which the exhibition is held occupies a commercial strip that was once home to an ancient trade route.
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Landlocked Rwanda transports a significant amount of its imports via a trade route passing through Uganda from the Kenyan seaport of Mombasa.
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China and neighboring nations have been in a power struggle over the sea, an important trade route, as China builds artificial islands.
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And in Thailand, a rail project important to a new trade route from southern China has been delayed by haggling over costs.
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China's extensive claims to the vital global trade route are challenged by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, as well as Taiwan.
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Control of the South China Sea would allow China to dominate a major trade route through which most of its imported oil flows.
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But join the dots and Saudi Arabia's positions match the incense trade route that long ran overland from the Indian Ocean to Arabia.
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The US State Department has no warnings for the country, which was once at the heart of the ancient Silk Road trade route.
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Egnatia is a major trade route in the Balkans, linking Igoumenitsa port in eastern Greece to the Greek-Turkish border in the west.
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The Cinnamon trade route across Asia and Europe, including stops at Madagascar, was made favorable by cold monsoon winds from October to March.
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There have been periodic confrontations between the Iranian and U.S. military in the Gulf - a major trade route for oil - in recent years.
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The South China Sea is a vital trade route, linking the large economies of Northeast Asia with South Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
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Such a ruling would complicate territorial disputes across the vital trade route and resource-rich region, where Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei also have claims.
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Supply worries have spurred tankers carrying diesel and heating oil to set out from Europe for the United States, reversing a traditional trade route.
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Cold weather on the East Coast has drawn a number of tankers carrying diesel and heating oil from Europe, reversing a traditional trade route.
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Originally constructed in the 10th century, the towering barriers protected the last oasis on the Silk Trade route before travelers entered the Karakum desert.
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With Brazil, China trade route flowing, these vessels are at a great distance to quickly get to the Pacific Northwest if market conditions changed.
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Beijing claims most of the South China Sea, a key trade route with areas believed to hold large quantities of oil and natural gas.
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Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, deployed at the Nassib crossing a day earlier, seizing a vital trade route that insurgents held for three years.
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The endeavour benefits from being in the group of infrastructure projects that make up the $62bn China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a hoped-for trade route.
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Her goal is to protect a merchant caravan as it attempts to cross and to help set up the first trade route across the region.
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The planned $46 billion trade route is expected to link western China with Pakistan's Arabian Sea via a network of roads, railways and energy pipelines.
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The ships Bavand and Termeh are among five Iranian vessels testing a new trade route, bringing urea to Brazil and returning to Iran with corn.
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The same trade route serves as a pipeline for Kenyan exports and helps supply merchandise to Burundi and parts of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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After meeting at the Brussels Fair, they created a foundry in Fresnoy-le-Grand, an area in northern France located along a major trade route.
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Without having attended the artist talk, it would be difficult to know that Biggers's subject is retracing the North Atlantic slave trade route in reverse.
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But what it will look like in practice, who pays for each stage of the trade route and which countries are involved is less clear.
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Freezing weather across the U.S East Coast has drawn a number of tankers carrying diesel and heating oil from Europe, reversing a traditional trade route.
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The other was from a place in the foothills of those highlands, on what other evidence suggests was a trade route from the highlands to Ceibal.
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Taking the trade route first, to clear out some of the pieces that just don't fit very well, I think would make a lot of sense.
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CARPENTRAS, France — Since Roman times, Jews have lived in this town in northern Provence, which lies on an ancient trade route from Marseille to Bruges, Belgium.
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The deal would open Italy to greater Chinese infrastructure investment in exchange for favorable customs conditions and a faster trade route into the heart of Europe.
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The bridge is a vital infrastructure for a port city like Genoa; it is an important trade route that links the Italian and the French Rivieras.
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U.S. officials see this as part of a long-term Chinese bid to deny U.S. forces access to the strategic sea, a key global trade route.
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The same trade route serves as a crucial pipeline for Kenyan exports and also helps supply merchandise to Burundi and parts of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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"The Bridge" revolves around building a better trade route between Alexandria and the Hilltop, and the titular structure takes on a symbolic importance for Rick and Maggie.
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Located near the main shipping route from Asia to Europe, Hambantota port is likely to play a key role in China's "Belt and Road" trade route initiative.
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As the largest economy in East Africa, Kenya is a crucial trade route to the continent and provides an important buffer of stability in a troubled region.
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It was a trip most of us can only dream about: following the ancient trade route through the centuries-old towns and sweeping landscapes of Central Asia.
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Holding the Nasib border crossing with Jordan could give the government an additional boost by reopening a key trade route that linked Syria with other Arab countries.
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There are real questions about how we will be able to guarantee access to fresh food and medicine if the crucial Dover-Calais trade route is clogged up.
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China claims most of the South China Sea, a key trade route and home to areas that are believed to hold large quantities of oil and natural gas.
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This has spurred tankers carrying diesel and heating oil to set out from Europe bound for the United States to address supply worries, reversing a traditional trade route.
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Residents reported sharp rises in the prices of fuel, vegetables, flour and other basic foodstuffs, with traders blaming shortages on blockages on the main trade route to Uganda.
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A strong American response to the growing number of Chinese port and military bases, particularly in unstable regimes encircling the Indian Ocean trade route, is also very desirable.
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The second pandemic could have started in China, they said, and been brought to Europe through the Silk Road, an ancient trade route that connects China to Europe.
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The country's vast desert is not only a breeding ground for jihadism; it is also a trade route that carries consumer goods south and drugs and migrants towards Europe.
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The new 170-mile facility aims to be to twice as deep as its famous rival and form an important new trade route, although construction is not fully underway.
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BET ON MEGA-SHIPS The weak market has hit the big lines which have invested heavily in "mega-ships", largely to operate the main Asia to Europe trade route.
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The deal would allow China to advance its quest to establish an alternative trade route to the Panama Canal, and enhance its ability to shape commerce in the region.
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If we put a dent in this illicit trade route, we will save the lives of some American caught up in their terribly sad, and misfortunate addiction to opioids.
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The United States has criticized China's build-up of military facilities on the islands and is concerned they could be used to restrict free movement along the trade route.
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Thanks to its proximity to the Mandeb Strait – which gives access to the trade route along the Suez Canal – it provides a vital port to landlocked countries like Ethiopia.
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The political shake-up also adds to uncertainty about Manila's position in a sometimes-bitter dispute with China over sovereignty in the South China Sea, a key global trade route.
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I recently set out to explore the Manta-Manaus Corridor, a multimodal trade route being built that will connect two bustling port cities: Manta in Ecuador and Manaus in Brazil.
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That rivalry is playing out most visibly in the waters of the South China Sea, a vital trade route the United States fears Beijing wants to militarise, despite China's denials.
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Complicating the situation, officials in Helmand say, local strongmen are using their influence to plant their own men in provincial security jobs in outposts on the drug-trade route. Gen.
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The United States remains concerned about China's construction of artificial islands housing military facilities, and expressed fears they could be used to restrict vessel movement in the vital trade route.
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The belt is an actual physical road that will connect China and Europe, and the road is a trade route (think Silk Road) that includes maritime shipping lanes and freight.
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Austria, now run by a conservative government in coalition with the far right, threatened to do the same on its southern border with Italy, Europe's busiest north-south trade route.
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Silk Road: A Berlin-based writer spent 12 days following the ancient trade route, starting in the holy city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, and ending in a national park in Kyrgyzstan.
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His government has called for the remedies to be promoted in its "Belt and Road" trade route, China's push to build ports, rail lines and other infrastructure around the world.
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Turkish maritime authorities reopened the Bosphorus to transiting tankers after shutting the major trade route from the Black Sea to the Aegean for several hours for security and safety reasons.
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But it's also a leap of faith towards a goal of reshaping global trade by reconnecting places along the historic Silk Road trade route with new ports, highways and railroads.
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One enormous influence was the Silk Road, the trade route that connected East and West for some 1,500 years and the later Triangular Trade, among North America, Europe and Africa.
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To advance this, America should commit to achieving the goals of constructing a new maritime trade route, sustainable energy development and building a new northern naval fleet over the next decade.
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The rebels seized control of the crossing in 2015, severing a lifeline for Syrian exports and disrupting a trade route between Syria and Jordan, Lebanon and the oil-rich Gulf countries.
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The dhows - plying the ancient trade route that once carried the likes of pearls, frankincense and myrrh - supply 23.6724,000 to 18,000 tonnes of foodstuffs a month to Yemen, according to traders.
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The advisers say Trump can also be expected to take a more "robust" approach to naval operations to assert navigation rights in the South China Sea, a vital global trade route.
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The United States has criticized China's build-up of military facilities on the artificial islands and is concerned they could be used to restrict free movement along the key trade route.
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The dhows - plying the ancient trade route that once carried the likes of pearls, frankincense and myrrh - supply 14,000 to 18,000 tonnes of foodstuffs a month to Yemen, according to traders.
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On Wednesday, Dean Karnazes, an American ultramarathon runner, will begin a 2000-day, 503-mile run along the Silk Road, part of an ancient trade route through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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That document did not prevent the vital international trade route emerging as a regional flashpoint amid China's military rise and its extensive program of island building on disputed reefs since 2014.
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The South China Sea is a global trade route with rich fishing grounds and energy reserves and China claims most of it based on what it says is its historic activity.
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Overall, it is a huge, ambitious trade and infrastructure scheme by the Chinese government to link 68 countries and up to 40% of the world's GDP in an enormous trade route.
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The United States has criticized China for constructing islands and military installations in the South China Sea, saying they could be used to restrict free movement in a critical global trade route.
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Anzac Day commemorates a World War I mission in which the Anzacs assisted the Allied Powers in an attempt to gain new fronts and a valuable trade route to their Russian allies.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Arctic is thawing even faster than lawmakers can formulate new rules to prevent the environmental threat of heavy fuel oil pollution from ships plying an increasingly popular trade route.
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It is a major trade route, described by the U.S. Energy Information Administration as the shortest sea route between crude oil suppliers in the Middle East and Africa, and markets in Asia.
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As he campaigns for re-election on Sunday, Mr. Erdogan has promised a canal that would create a Turkish-owned trade route, which he says would make the country a great power.
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In 2013, Xi outlined the Belt and Road initiative which involves billions of dollars of infrastructure investment to reinvigorate the ancient overland silk road trade route and develop a new sea equivalent.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian state media said on Saturday the major Nassib border crossing with Jordan would reopen on October 10, three years after the trade route was captured by rebels and closed.
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Iran and China signed 17 accords on Saturday, including on cooperation in nuclear energy and a revival of the ancient Silk Road trade route, known in China as One Belt, One Road.
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The two sectors rose last week as state media reported that investment by Chinese firms into "One Belt, One Road" countries along the new Silk Road trade route has already reached $51.1 billion.
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The cemetery site is situated near the ancient Silk Road, indicating that the old trade route linking China and the Middle East may have facilitated the spread of marijuana use as a drug.
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Yasay's account of the meeting highlights the challenge ahead for the Philippines, a U.S. ally, in getting China to comply with the decision which has ramped up tensions in the vital trade route.
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"This new rail link with China is another boost for global Britain, following the ancient Silk Road trade route to carry British products around the world," said Greg Hands, a British trade minister.
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Lorenzana's comments about his defense priorities will add to uncertainty about Duterte's position on the Philippines' sometimes bitter dispute with China over sovereignty in the South China Sea, a key global trade route.
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On the last day of Asia's biggest security summit, Admiral Sun Jianguo said China will not be bullied, including over a pending international court ruling over its claims in the vital trade route.
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Kenyatta's first task: Unify the country As the largest economy in East Africa, Kenya is a crucial trade route to the continent and has provided an important buffer of stability in the region.
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U.S. heating oil prices got a boost from frigid weather on the East Coast, which has drawn a number of tankers carrying diesel and heating oil from Europe, reversing a traditional trade route.
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There, China will expand its efforts to help protect ships travelling on the Mandeb Strait – which gives access to the trade route along the Suez Canal — as well as support other peacekeeping efforts.
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The unusual trade route has been a challenge even for experienced U.S. merchants and Brazilian buyers, who must ensure grain has all regulatory clearances and does not contain unapproved biotech varieties, grain traders said.
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U.K. authorities have warned for several years that people smugglers are turning to Dutch and Belgian ports because of increased security on the busiest trade route between Calais in France and Dover in England.
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China has identified the tear-drop shaped island as a key point on the Maritime Silk Road, as it plans to build infrastructure along this ancient trade route that extends from China to Africa.
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The strategic peninsula protrudes south from Ukraine into the Black Sea, separating the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov via a narrow Kerch Strait, a vital trade route for both Russia and Ukraine.
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Last year, Costa told Chinese state television that Portugal wanted to "actively participate" in Beijing's plans to develop a maritime sea route as part of the trade route initiative, dubbed the new Silk Road.
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In an effort to revitalize the ancient Silk Road under the Belt and Road initiative, China has laid out a plan for closer ties with countries along the ancient trade route such as Turkey.
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On a March visit, Oli cosied up to China with a deal to use its ports for trading goods with third countries, ruffling feathers in India, which controls landlocked Nepal's main overland trade route.
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The two companies are competing to establish a benchmark for oil flows on the trade route that has opened up after Washington lifted a decades-old ban on crude exports at the end of 2015.
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The United States has criticized China's build-up of military facilities on the artificial islands and is concerned they could be used to restrict free movement through the South China Sea, an important trade route.
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In addition to boosting Pakistan's power supply, CPEC is supposed to link China by land to Gwadar, a deep-water port on the Arabian Sea, in the hope of creating a lucrative new trade route.
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Earlier this year, Chinese president Xi Jinping also visited Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt to boost the country's presence in the region as part of its efforts to revive a new Silk Road trade route.
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The Philippines has traditionally been one of Washington's staunchest supporters in its standoff with Beijing over the South China Sea, a vital trade route where China has built artificial islands, airstrips and other military facilities.
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Ma has already warned that the trade war between the world's two largest economies could last decades and that China should focus exports on the "Silk Road" trade route, citing Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe.
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The decision on Mischief Reef is among the most significant within the 479-page judgment from the panel, which looked at the territorial rights of disputed reefs, rocks and shoals scattered throughout the key trade route.
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China, a nation of 1.38 billion people, will also likely be seeking support in Goa for a proposed trade route through Central Asia and Russia to Europe, and for a sea route traversing the Indian Ocean.
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Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers capable of striking China's runways and military installations across the vital trade route, according to Western officials.
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Reuters reported in August that Vietnam had discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with mobile rocket launchers capable of striking China's runways and military installations across the vital trade route.
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We must ensure the new heavy icebreaker is delivered by 2023 or risk being excluded from this important region, just as its potential as a new trade route and its unexploited natural resources are being developed.
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According to Disney's lore, the planet was once on a major trade route, but the use of lightspeed travel has rendered it largely irrelevant, and it has fallen into the hands of smugglers and other sketchy figures.
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To encourage greater global use of the yuan and diversify funding sources for its "Belt and Road" trade route connecting China by land and sea to Europe, Beijing is keen to attract more foreign issuers of bonds.
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The first train connecting Iran and China loaded with Chinese goods arrived in Tehran Monday, reviving the ancient Silk Road trade route and highlighting the economic possibilities for Iran since the lifting of international sanctions, AFP reports.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Increasingly assertive action by China's coast guard ships in the South China Sea risks destabilizing the region, according to the authors of new research tracking maritime law enforcement incidents across the vital trade route.
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In recent years, there have been periodic confrontations between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and U.S. military in the Gulf - a major trade route for oil - but the number of incidents has dropped in recent months.
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Positano has lived many lives—as part of Amalfi's maritime republic during the Middle Ages, a major trade route during the Renaissance, a forgotten fishing village, and finally, an idyllic beach town experiencing a modern-day renaissance.
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NASSIB BORDER CROSSING, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian government forces took up positions and raised state flags at the Nassib border crossing with Jordan on Saturday, celebrating the recapture of a key trade route that rebels held for three years.
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The recreation of an old trade route is not to everyone's liking, with many pointing out that countries along the route are falling into debt in order to pay for the large infrastructure projects envisaged by the BRI.
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Beijing is encouraging foreign bond issuers as it seeks to internationalize its yuan or renminbi currency and open up sources of finance for its planned "Belt and Road" trade route connecting China by land and sea to Europe.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Vietnam has discreetly fortified several of its islands in the disputed South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers capable of striking China's runways and military installations across the vital trade route, according to Western officials.
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Beijing is tentatively removing barriers to foreign issuers as it seeks to internationalize its renminbi or yuan currency and open up sources of finance for its planned "One Belt, One Road" trade route that stretches as far as Europe.
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The CEO of Vinci's concessions arm Nicolas Notebaert said in Ta Nea newspaper that the firm had expressed an initial interest in the long-term lease of Egnatia Motorway, a major trade route linking Greece from east to west.
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On Saturday, President Xi Jinping and the Italian government signed a non-binding agreement for Italy to join China's trade route and inked a total of 29 deals worth 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) across an array of sectors.
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Beijing is tentatively removing barriers to foreign issuers as it seeks to internationalise its renminbi or yuan currency and open up sources of finance for its planned "One Belt, One Road" trade route that stretches as far as Europe.
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The ivory price in Hong Kong, a major trade route to China which also announced plans for a sales ban, has fallen to about $380 per kilogram from $1,500 in 2014, Peter Knights, executive director of WildAid, told Reuters.
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China claims most of the South China Sea, an important trade route that is also believed to contain large quantities of oil and natural gas, and has been building artificial islands on reefs, some with ports and air strips.
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For China, having a toehold in one of Europe's historic ports would bring favorable customs conditions, a faster trade route to the heart of the Continent and direct access to railroads for moving its goods into the European Union.
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According to the University of Padova scientists who conducted the study, the metal was likely delivered to the area via a long-distance trade route, which if true, shows just how sophisticated Copper Age European culture was over 5,000 years ago.
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The Philippines has been a key U.S. ally in its dispute with China over the South China Sea, in which Washington blames Beijing for militarizing a vital global trade route and jeopardizing freedom of movement at sea and in the air.
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A bridge on the railway linking Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso collapsed on Tuesday and it will be several months before the trade route between the two countries is fully restored, said Sitarail, a unit of the Bollore group.
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But with none of the underlying disputes resolved and new images reviewed by Reuters showing China continuing to develop facilities on North and Tree islands in the contested Paracel islands, experts say the vital trade route remains a global flashpoint.
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Concern at China's assertiveness over the vital trade route was deepening, several envoys said on the sidelines of the summit, particularly given the prospect of Chinese military facilities on new artificial islands built by on reefs in the South China Sea.
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As the largest economy in East Africa, Kenya is a crucial trade route to the continent and provides an important buffer of stability in a region that includes the fledgling Somali government and the politically tense Sudan and South Sudan.
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Intervention by regional naval forces that flooded into the area helped disrupt several hijack bids and improved security for the strategic trade route that leads through the Suez Canal and links the oilfields of the Middle East with European ports.
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Moscow, Washington and Beijing are all vying for influence in the ex-Soviet Central Asia region which sits on vast mineral reserves and is strategically located north of Afghanistan, on the ancient Silk Road trade route between China and Europe.
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Manila has been aligned with the United States in its dispute with China over the South China Sea, in which Washington blames Beijing for militarizing a vital global trade route and jeopardizing freedom of movement at sea and in the air.
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StanChart will use the deal to fund corporate finance projects along the 'Belt and Road', a Chinese strategic project aimed at building a modern-day 'silk road' trade route across Southeast Asia and beyond to the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
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The government is keen to secure the province as work begins on the $46 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a project that will see a trade route built along the length of Pakistan, culminating in Baluchistan's deep-water port at Gwadar.
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They note that it is in France's interests to control the border on its territory, not only to protect a vital trade route across the channel but also to avoid an even greater flood of migrants huddling on its shores.
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The balance of payments pressure is largely due to imports of machinery and other Chinese goods connected with a $57 billion infrastructure investment by China, part of its planned Belt and Road trade route stretching to Asia, Europe and beyond.
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The Philippines is contesting China's claim to an area shown on its maps as a nine-dash line stretching deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia, covering hundreds of disputed islands and reefs and encompassing a vital global trade route.
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But at risk in the process are a number of well preserved pre-Colombian artifacts left in what used to be a well-traveled trade route that passes along a spring and wetlands that provide important habitat for area species.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - As much as 60,000 tonnes of Asian gasoline is heading to South and Central America as higher prices and a supply shortfall in the region opened the rare east-to-Americas trade route, trade and industry sources said on Thursday.
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A post at the History Blog explains the geographical and historical context of the discovery:Laodicea was in the province of Phrygia (the bound prisoner is wearing a Phrygian cap), located on an important trade route that brought it great wealth and prosperity.
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Hapag-Lloyd, which would gain access to bigger ships on the major Asia to Europe trade route through the merger, said this month it would postpone the completion date to May 31 from March 31, but the deal was not at risk.
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The United States has said in the past that rotational deployments of Chinese fighter jets to Woody Island were part of a disturbing trend of militarization that raised questions about Beijing's intentions in the South China Sea, which is an important trade route.
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Last week, China issued its first white paper on its national Arctic strategy, pledging to work more closely with Moscow in particular to create an Arctic maritime counterpart – a "Polar silk road" – to its "one belt, one road" overland trade route to Europe.
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A $10 billion development project — backed by PowerChina International, a major Chinese utility, and two Chinese port developers — is supposed to propel Malacca back into global significance, as a vital stop on a maritime trade route that stretches from Shanghai to Rotterdam.
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On Tuesday, a hacker that goes by the name InsanityDRM posted on the subreddit dedicated to the Tor hidden service marketplace Trade Route to announce that he had obtained the personal information of a rival hacker named PhishKingz, a practice known as doxing.
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Hanoi is also demanding states clarify their maritime claims in the vital trade route according to international law - an apparent attempt to shatter the controversial "nine-dash line" by which China claims and patrols much of the South China Sea, the draft shows.
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That hedging is gone after the early moments of Iceborne—you're sent to hunt monsters in order to get clear access to natural resources, or to make sure a trade route to the New World is established enough to send over fortifications.
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In response to the threat of renewed sanctions on its exports, Iran suggested in July that it could leverage its position along the important trade route, the Strait of Hormuz, to stop other Middle Eastern countries from shipping their barrels to the world.
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Hanoi is also demanding states clarify their maritime claims in the vital trade route according to international law – an apparent attempt to shatter the controversial "nine-dash line" by which China claims and patrols much of the South China Sea, the draft shows.
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" Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon Mobil, took a hard line toward China's island-building and expansionist claims in the oft-disputed South China Sea, an international body of water and crucial trade route, and compared the country's recent aggression there to "Russia's taking of Crimea.
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Policymakers in New Delhi are already worried, for example, that reimposing sanctions on Iran would impact India's crude oil supply and delay the completion of Chabahar port that will create a new trade route for Afghanistan and drastically alter the trade dynamics in South Asia.
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Tillerson said he considered China's South China Sea activity "extremely worrisome" and that it would be a threat to the "entire global economy" if Beijing were able to dictate access to the waterway, which is of strategic military importance and a major trade route.
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The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said its findings, made available first to Reuters on Wednesday, were based on analysis of satellite images of islands in the strategic trade route, where territory is claimed by several countries.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A 'Q-Flex' LNG tanker, the world's second-largest class of liquefied natural gas carriers, is set to pass through the Panama Canal for the first time, the canal's CEO said, expanding the Americas to Asia trade route for the fast-growing commodity.
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Early this month, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence intensified Washington's pressure campaign against Beijing by accusing China of "malign" efforts to undermine Trump ahead of next Tuesday's congressional elections and reckless military actions in the disputed South China Sea, a major Asian trade route.
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Once part of the trade route that crisscrossed through the country, this passageway, called Trollstigen, or the troll's path, remains a spectacular example of the power of engineering in a remote region that is basically impassable from early November to May, when the snow falls.
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The area includes a prehistoric trade route rich in artifacts and is the only place where species like the Quitobaquito spring snail, the Sonoyta mud turtle, and the desert caper plant can be found anywhere on the planet, according to the National Park Service website.
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This is because "even though the Arctic Circle contains large amounts of untapped resources, as well as being a potential trade route, the full potential of the Arctic to become commercially viable seems to be at least a decade away," the Stratfor analyst said.
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The team was lead by biological anthropologists Piers Mitchell and Hui-Yuan Yeh, who used microscopy to analyze personal hygiene sticks discovered in a latrine at a once thriving Silk Road relay station in China to determine that the trade route was used to spread disease.
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Stars GM Jim Nill has managed to make as big a splash as possible in a shallow free agent pool, signing arguably the best available player in the class (Radulov), while being able to fill other needs at centre, defence, and goaltender via the trade route.
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Researchers had only speculated that diseases such as the bubonic plague and anthrax were carried among the Silk Road, which was in use between approximately 202 BC and 220 AD. The trade route was important for the development of ancient civilizations in China, India, and Europe.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - Chinese companies are in talks to snap up more businesses and land in Pakistan after sealing two major deals in recent months, a sign of deepening ties after Beijing vowed to plough $57 billion into a new trade route across the South Asian nation.
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U.S. officials are also pushing international allies and partners to increase their own naval deployments through the vital trade route as China strengthens its military capabilities on both the Paracel and Spratly islands, the diplomats said, even if they stopped short of directly challenging Chinese holdings.
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Beyond its symbolic value, Helmand remains a focus of their attacks not only because it is the gateway to other southern provinces, but also because its fields produce the highest amount of opium in Afghanistan and its vast deserts sit on the main opium trade route.
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This question of sovereignty had become pressing because the reduction in summer sea ice meant that the Northwest Passage was likely to become a significant trade route, and, perhaps more important, that the massive untapped oil and gas resources of the Arctic might soon become commercially exploitable.
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As he campaigns for re-election on Sunday, Mr. Erdogan has promised his most ambitious project yet: a canal that would bisect the country and create a Turkish-owned trade route, which he says would make Turkey a great power and leave a legacy for the history books.
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Last November the Georgian government held its second biennial Tbilisi Belt and Road Forum, in which delegations from Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia presented historical trade route maps as part of their efforts to earn a place on this 21st-century Silk Road, with all the accompanying Chinese investment.
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Xi may try to seek Indian support for the trade route initiative in exchange for backing India's bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a grouping of 48 countries that have agreed to adhere to guidelines for nuclear and nuclear-related trade meant to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Think about it: that's been going on since the actual Silk Road [ancient trade route through Asia], and it's ironic, as this all started with violence—with the Opium Wars and what have you—and now, without the deep web and the Silk Road [marketplace], it all ends with violence.
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The head of U.S. naval operations, Admiral John Richardson, expressed concern that an international court ruling expected in coming weeks on a case brought by the Philippines against China over its South China Sea claims could be a trigger for Beijing to declare an exclusion zone in the busy trade route.
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Foiled in El Salvador: About a year ago, when a Chinese state-owned company began dealings with El Salvador to create an alternative trade route to the Panama Canal, U.S. officials used interviews, meetings with opinion makers and posts on social media to turn public opinion against the Chinese project.
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Ebola's presence in a bustling city presents an entirely new challenge for authorities, who fear the city's location on the Congo River — a busy trade route — means it could easily be transmitted elsewhere, including to the capital Kinshasa, a city of more than 9 million people, or to neighboring countries.
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The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said its findings, made available first to Reuters on Wednesday, come despite statements by the Chinese leadership that Beijing has no intention to militarize the islands in the strategic trade route, where territory is claimed by several countries.
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The work by academic Xue Gong and published by Singapore's ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute this week sheds light on a little-examined element of rising tensions across the vital trade route, showing extensive work by Chinese SOEs in developing infrastructure and tourism, as well as oil and gas, some in hotly disputed areas.
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The arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in Vietnam is expected to be welcomed by an emerging network of countries who are nervously eyeing China's military rise, particularly its assertive stance and island-building activities in the South China Sea, a vital global trade route linking Northeast Asia with the Middle East and Europe.
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It's here along the northern maritime borders of Russia and the United States where we find a rapidly melting polar ice cap; the shortest trade route linking Asia, Europe and North America; nearly one-third of the world's untapped hydrocarbons; an increased abundance and distribution of fish and minerals; the historically intense relationship between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO; and the subtle, inevitable rise of China's third ocean strategy.
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