Posted on 02/23/2016 9:55:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
The first train to connect China and Iran arrived in Tehran on Monday loaded with Chinese goods, reviving the ancient Silk Road, the Iranian railway company said.
The train, carrying 32 containers of commercial products from eastern Zhejiang province, took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometer (5,900-mile) journey through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. [...]
According to Iranian media, more than a third of Iran's foreign trade is with China, which is Tehran's top customer for oil exports.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed last month to build economic ties worth up to $600 billion within the next 10 years.
It came during a visit to Iran by Xi, the first by a Chinese president in 14 years, and just days after sanctions against Tehran were lifted under a historic nuclear deal with world powers. ...
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Chinese need new markets. Americans are going to start producing again.
Once China, Russia, Iran etc. gets together, the US is DOMMED...they will strangle us.
Because of tariffs?
I wonder if they had any nuclear weapons on board?
This new Silk Road is a project to watch! The goal is staggering and this could be an underlyer to geopolitical strategy by China, Russia, and a lot of other players on the Eurasian landmass
Halford MacKinder’s heartland theory unfolding
Not if the RINOs can help it.
Americans are going to start producing again
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