Sábado, 9 de Julho de 2011
The 11,179 kilometers long track will be running through the far western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland, before finally reaching Germany.
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And so the notion of an overland trade highway linking China to Europe, an idea whose foundations were first laid by Alexander the Great, and then later came into full fruition as the Silk Road that linked East and West throughout the Pax's Romana and Mongolica, is now once again a viable and feasible prospect.
The ancient Silk Road also facilitated trade between China and Northern Africa, so it might be a safe bet to expect that new railway tentacles will be built to reach into the Saharan bloc within a few years.
But all in all, just another ho-hum story about how much China likes trains, right?
via Miguel