Biden, Modi and G20 allies unveil rail and shipping project linking India to Middle East and Europe
President Joe Biden and his allies on Saturday announced plans to build a rail and shipping corridor linking India with the Middle East and Europe, an ambitious project aimed at fostering economic growth and political cooperation.
“This is a big deal,” said Biden. “This is a really big deal.”
The corridor, outlined at the annual Group of 20 summit of the world’s top economies, would help boost trade, deliver energy resources and improve digital connectivity. It would include India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Israel and the European Union, said Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser.
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Rail and shipping because you can't go through Iran.
Good to hear that the president only cares about rail in other countries.
No.
China has One Belt, One Road and USA now has One Shipping channel, One Rail
China does not have one road anymore. Once Russia invaded Ukraine the entire project collapsed. It is not possible to run the rail from China to Poland (there already was a functioning hub for China-EU railway transport in central Poland before the war) without crossing Ukraine or Russia and Belarus. And all three of these countries are kinda off-limit for who-know-how long. Meanwhile the West kinda soured on the Chinese products and offshoring so once the war is over there will be no more incentive to resume large-scale operations of the belt and road.
Maybe the deep state top secret high-profile analysts in the US figured out that a country with unstable demography, unreliable economic data and half of the economy either propped up by the state coffers or hand-steered by The Party is a less lucrative business partner than a larger, younger, more democratic country which speaks English to boot.
I get your overall point but
Not for long at this rate.
They said more, not extremely
0.1 is more than 0
America, bringing our horrible infrastructure practices to a Palestine near you.
Easiest way to make “East Palestine train wreck chemical spillage” disappear on the internet is to repeat it elsewhere to confuse people.
Giving third world dictators even more power doesn't sound like a good deal for anyone living in those regions
It's not like India isn't already shipping huge amounts of goods to Europe. They just do it on heavily polluting ships. Rail is the greenest shipping solution.
What's the alternative? It's easy to comment on it like the universe was created today. But we are all born into the world as it exists. That means understanding the history and geopolitics of the regions in question. One can't just jump in and say that they don't like Xi Jin Ping on the global stage, because the west was happily content leaning on the cheap labour of China for the past 50 years. Nevermind the fact that U.S saudi relationship has existed for well over 50 years now or more.
Biden & Democrats oppose fascism inside USA and support fascism outside USA.
Nothing says fascism like... [checks notes] shipping?
Fascism is when train
chugga chugga choo choo
Bro you did not watch the true history of Snowpiercer. I'm literally shaking right now.
Giving Saudi Arabia, Israel, the UAE and Jordan more power sounds like a horrible horrible idea
Sending everything by ship, which they're doing right now, is a horrible horrible idea for the planet.
“What could possibly go wrong?”
“Everything!”
“Yeah I know but it offers plausible deniability.”