{"id":13944,"date":"2014-12-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/12\/27\/china-tracks-the-silk-road-with-a-rail-road\/"},"modified":"2014-12-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T12:00:00","slug":"china-tracks-the-silk-road-with-a-rail-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/12\/27\/china-tracks-the-silk-road-with-a-rail-road\/","title":{"rendered":"China Tracks the Silk Road with a Rail Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/pepe-escobar\/go-west-young-han_b_6333490.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHINA, December 16, 2014 (Huffington Post): November 18, 2014 is a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China&#8217;s Zhejiang province, 185 miles south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers of export goods weighing more than 1,000 tons left a massive warehouse complex heading for Madrid. It arrived on December 9th.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the new trans-Eurasia choo-choo train. At over 8,000 miles, it will regularly traverse the longest freight train route in the world, 40% farther than the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway. Its cargo will cross China from East to West, then Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France, and finally Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Yiwu-Madrid route across Eurasia represents the beginning of a set of game-changing developments. It will be an efficient logistics channel of incredible length. It will represent geopolitics with a human touch, knitting together small traders and huge markets across a vast landmass. It&#8217;s already a graphic example of Eurasian integration on the go. And most of all, it&#8217;s the first building block on China&#8217;s &#8220;New Silk Road,&#8221; conceivably the project of the new century and undoubtedly the greatest trade story in the world for the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Read this very long analysis at source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHINA, December 16, 2014 (Huffington Post): November 18, 2014 is a day that should live forever in history. On,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}