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Italy Joins China's New Silk Road Project

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132 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 23 Mar 19 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | source
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coliveira ◴[23 Mar 19 16:16 UTC] No.19471036[source]▶
China is doing what is a great advancement for the world: integrating east and west, and in the process bringing the long forgotten areas in the middle east into the world trading order. The more investment in the Silk road, the more we will have a robust economic system integrating countries that until now were forgotten by the previous world order.
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NicoJuicy ◴[23 Mar 19 16:26 UTC] No.19471076[source]▶
A train road can't handle economic scale like ships can. The belt is a excuse for modern colonization through debts
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echevil ◴[23 Mar 19 16:37 UTC] No.19471131[source]▶
Trains are way faster than ships and handles much bigger scale than airplanes
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1. NicoJuicy ◴[23 Mar 19 16:43 UTC] No.19471171[source]▶
2 weeks by train is still no alternative for planes.

2 weeks is also no replacement for ships, because of scale. It's something in the middle where there is no alternative.

It's also insignificant alternative in the scale against ships.