Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), [1] known in China as the One Belt One Road [a] and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, [2] is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 2013 to invest in more than 150 countries and international organizations. [3]
The New Silk Road Initiative was a United States initiative in the 2010s that aimed to integrate Afghanistan with Central Asia, boosting trade and economic development. [1] [2] [3] Originally developed by the staff of General David Petraeus at the United States Central Command, [2] it was formally announced by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011 in a speech in Chennai. [4]
Ross William Ulbricht (/ ˈ ʊ l b r ɪ k t /; born March 27, 1984) [1] is an American who created and operated the illegal darknet market Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. Silk Road was an online marketplace that facilitated the trade in narcotics and other illegal products and services.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
New Silk Road can refer to: Eurasian Land Bridge, rail transport route between Europe and Asia; Belt and Road Initiative, a Chinese-sponsored Eurasian development strategy; New Silk Road Initiative, a US initiative for economic integration in Central Asia; New Silk Road, a 2018 album by Maksim Mrvica
In Chancay, COSCO agreed to build a new port on the coast in 2019 and in 2022, the China Harbour Engineering Company of China Communications Construction Company agreed to build the complex at 992 ha (2,450 acres) which would include breakwaters, docks and a 1.8-kilometre (1.1 mi) tunnel to warehouses.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a 2015 non-fiction book written by English historian Peter Frankopan, a historian at the University of Oxford. A new abridged edition was illustrated by Neil Packer. [1] The full text is divided into 25 chapters. The author combines the development of the world with the Silk Road.
The New York, Texas and Mexican Railway Company was a railroad business chartered in 1880 to connect New York City with Mexico City with the initial tracks laid in Texas (1880–1905). [1] Known colloquially as The Macaroni Line, [2] it was established by Joseph Telfener, an Italian engineer and financier. [3] [4] The company issued stock and ...