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China’s infrastructure play: why Washington should accept the new silk road / Luft, Gal

Luft, Gal	Journal Article
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Over the past three millennia, China has made three attempts to project its economic power westward. The first began in the second century BC, during the Han dynasty, when China’s imperial rulers developed the ancient Silk Road to trade with the far-off residents of Central Asia and the Mediterranean basin; the fall of the Mongol empire and the rise of European maritime trading eventually rendered that route obsolete. In the fifteenth century AD, the maritime expeditions of Admiral Zheng He [1] connected Ming-dynasty China [2] to the littoral states of the Indian Ocean. But China’s rulers recalled Zheng’s fleet less than three decades after it set out, and for the rest of imperial history, they devoted most of their attention to China’s neighbors to the east and south.

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Central Asia ; Washington ; New Silk Road ; Maritime Silk Road ; Silk Road Economic Belt ; China’s Infrastructure ;
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Kill the oil monopoly / Luft, Gal

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Natural Gas ; United States ; Saudi Arabia ; Gasoline ; Oil Monopoly

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Terrorism goes to sea. / Luft, Gal; Korin, Anne

Nov-Dec 2004 Journal Article

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Publication	Nov-Dec 2004.
Summary/Abstract	The number of pirate attacks worldwide has tripled in the past decade, and new evidence suggests that piracy is becoming a key tactic of terrorist groups. In light of al Qaeda's professed aim of targeting weak links in the global economy, this new nexus is a serious threat: most of the world's oil and gas is shipped through pirate-infested waters.

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Terrorism ; International terrorism ; Piracy

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