Three strands run through the new Silk Road | The National:
"When the German geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the term “Silk Road” in 1877 to depict the 2,000-year-old east-west trade artery built on the exchange of Arabian stallions and fine fabrics, he could never have imagined that 137 years later one in every three new cars in China would be fuelled by Middle East oil.
China’s economic presence in the Middle East is fast expanding. Chinese engineers assembled the 26,000 reflective glass panels, each individually hand cut, for the 828-metre-high Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. Chinese goods are big business in the modern shopping centres in Dubai and the old bazaars and souqs in Egypt and Morocco. Everywhere you look, the interdependency between the regions is strengthening.
The relationship has three distinct strands."
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