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A new multi-billion dollar network, when completed, will link Iran’s Persian Gulf
ports
with Central Asia and in turn hook up with Russian and Chinese transportation systems.
Turkey has refused to open its ports, airports, and roads to the Republic of Cyprus, as it is obligated to do by the Ankara Protocol, which set the terms of Turkey’s accession negotiations.
It has been investing or demonstrating interest in deep-water port projects in Kenya, Tanzania, and Bangladesh, and it has been directly involved in financing and constructing Indian Ocean
ports
in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
Since he became president, Ahmadinejad has encouraged this basij economy, and today the pasdaran are granted trading licenses and exclusive control and use of some
ports.
As monetary policy was being pushed to its limits, what went missing was an increase in long-term investments in high-speed rail, roads, ports, low-carbon energy, safe water and sanitation, and health and education.
Every corner of the country should be linked to domestic and international markets through roads, railways, ports, and airports.
Instead of hearing more lectures from the IMF about cutting budgets, poor countries need larger budgets to pay for the required investments - roads, power supplies, ports, schools, and health clinics - to jump-start economic growth.
After all, North Korea has had nuclear weapons for more than a decade; they could be delivered to US
ports
on its east or west coast by other means, such as in the hold of a freighter.
The authorities also tout the One Belt, One Road project, which will use Chinese financial assistance and resources to develop ports, railroads, and highways linking China with other parts of Asia, central Asia, and potentially even Europe.
Policy discussions at many high-level summits sought to strengthen other features of industrial policy, including public financing of airports, highways, ports, electricity grids, telecommunications, and other infrastructure, improvements in institutional effectiveness, an emphasis on education and skills, and a clearer legal framework.
The same day, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates criticized China for unexpectedly curtailing American ship visits to Chinese
ports
because of American arms sales to Taiwan.
For more than 30 years, however, this bountiful marine wilderness has also been a source and site of conflict, as foreign illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing vessels have plundered our waters – stealing our fish and selling their catches at distant
ports.
Yet some in Europe seem to believe that erecting barbed-wire fences along borders (Hungary) or closing
ports
to ships full of refugees (Italy and Malta) is justified.
How should Park respond if missile-armed submarines sail out of North Korean
ports?
For China, however, these projects are operating exactly as needed: Chinese attack submarines have twice docked at Sri Lankan ports, and two Chinese warships were recently pressed into service for Gwadar port security.
Sri Lanka is Exhibit A. Though small, the country is strategically located between China’s eastern
ports
and the Mediterranean.
The key to meeting the Millennium Development Goals in poor countries is an increase in investment in people (health, education, nutrition, and family planning), the environment (water and sanitation, soils, forests, and biodiversity), and infrastructure (roads, power, and ports).
In exchange for financing and building the infrastructure that poorer countries need, China demands favorable access to their natural assets, from mineral resources to
ports.
To strengthen its position further, China has encouraged its companies to bid for outright purchase of strategic ports, where possible.
Even the terms of the 99-year Hambantota port lease echo those used to force China to lease its own
ports
to Western colonial powers.
The Union for the Mediterranean, launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, must be revitalized and re-directed towards development projects ranging from highways and
ports
to the promotion of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).
Indeed, the tasks that these countries are undertaking – investing in infrastructure (roads, electricity, ports, and much else), building cities that will one day be home to billions, and moving toward a green economy – are truly enormous.
The French, as Fromkin reminds us, “shrank Syria, so that they could control it,” rewarding their “Christian allies by swelling the borders of Mount Lebanon with the Bekaa valley, the Mediterranean
ports
of Tyre, Sidon, Beirut and Tripoli, and…land…north of Palestine.
Africa, which by 2050 will be home to an estimated 2.6 billion people, is in dire need of funds to build and maintain roads, ports, power grids, and so on.
And the anachronistic 1920 Jones Act requires cargo carried between US
ports
to be shipped only on American ships (recall the confusion about the possibility of foreign ships coming to help during the BP Gulf oil spill).
Its transport costs are among the highest in the world, reflecting mountainous terrain and international trade routes that must cross political boundaries and depend on foreign
ports.
Neither the left nor the right looked after the interests of the old working class in busted mining towns, rusting ports, and decaying smokestack cities.
Vigorous popular opposition to a Dubai company’s plan to take over
ports
in the United States shocked the American government.
Nobody worried about foreign ownership of US
ports
as long as the owner was a British company; the new fears reflect the belief that Dubai might be a channel for Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism.
The law, originally enacted in 2005, now bars all such goods from passing through EU territory and ports, and from being promoted at fairs and in industry publications.
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