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2004-04-27 China-Japan-Koreas
East rolls out a new silken path to Europe
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Posted by Steve 2004-04-27 9:28:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Tokyo to Istanbul

I count at least one -- and probably two -- big water crossings there.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-04-27 10:19:00 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com]  2004-04-27 10:19:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Three, if you count the Bosphorus. They sure as hell aren't going to be routing it through North Korea, unless one of the parties is speaking for the NorKs.

Remind me again how much actual commercial traffic uses the crumbling remnants of the incomplete Pan American Highway?
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-04-27 10:45:07 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-04-27 10:45:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Any environmental groups planning on opposing this? I mean, all them cars and all that pollution.....
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-27 10:58:49 AM||   2004-04-27 10:58:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mmmmmmmmmmmm...and a McDonald's/Starbucks duplex every 15 kilometers...
Posted by Seafarious  2004-04-27 11:03:49 AM||   2004-04-27 11:03:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I have always thought the Japanese and Russians should work on upgrading the transsiberian railroad to become a bullet train. Japanese have the technology and need the work. Russia has resources in Siberia that need to be exploited and can return some contested islands to seal the deal.

Vladivostok to Moscow by train in 8 hours or less would change Asia.
Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-27 11:10:25 AM||   2004-04-27 11:10:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm thinking Canonball Memorial Sea-to-Shinning Sea Run What Ya Brung Race Redux.
Posted by Shipman 2004-04-27 11:12:10 AM||   2004-04-27 11:12:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 East Asians don't have a political or economic interest in promoting Russian-Siberian integration. As the trends are running, they'll have de facto control of eastern Siberia in another fifty years. Although those trends look most like a footrace between a set of asthmatics where the Russian runner is the closest to dead, and the Chinese runner is just starting to wheeze a bit...
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-04-27 11:22:02 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-04-27 11:22:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wouldn't be nice to have a well built military road funneling Asia into the Mideast?
Posted by DG  2004-04-27 11:34:31 AM||   2004-04-27 11:34:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#9  What a fantastic boondoggle!And Japan's financing it!What a beautiful plan to finally ruin Japan's economy.Japanese companies will get much of non-China construction(they're financing),but they will have to hire local construction crews,so very few actual Japanese citizens will get any money from this.Japanese banks will tie up all their capital on this,and bonds will still have to be floated,which will fail,wiping out all who invested in them(much of Japan mid-class will invest savings in such bonds out of patriotism).There will be delays caused by Nature,changes of governments(the new guys will want their payoffs)local wars,etc.And government and business grafts will be chump change compared to "protection"money that will be demanded by every 2bit bandit from China to Turkey.(To get your share of the loot,round up some cousins in the village,mount your pony and go shoot up constrution site at night.Couple days later send a message that for a suitable fee,you will ensure safety along this stretch of project.)
Posted by Stephen 2004-04-27 2:09:16 PM||   2004-04-27 2:09:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Mitch H, it is in the interest of both Japan and Russia to ensure that China doesn't dominate Siberia. If Russia can be helped to develop and populate the area Japan may get inexpensive resources that they always need.

If I were Putin I'd bush for the bullet train I mentioned in #5, and I'd push to make Vladivostok the new Hong Kong to promote immigration from Europe and Western Russia and really make Russia a trading nation in the East.
Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-27 3:24:05 PM||   2004-04-27 3:24:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh, what a wonderful road trip whis will be! Imagine the truck stops, and the camp grounds, and spotting all the exotic license plates. I can't wait!
Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-04-27 4:26:16 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com]  2004-04-27 4:26:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm hoping these will make a comeback Sgt. Mom.
Posted by Shipman 2004-04-27 8:23:15 PM||   2004-04-27 8:23:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I have a better idea.
Posted by Rafael 2004-04-27 10:04:57 PM||   2004-04-27 10:04:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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