India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor to Be Unveiled at G20 in Challenge to China’s Belt and Road

Breitbart London ^ | 9 September 2023 | Unattributed

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Europe, the Middle East and India will on Saturday unveil plans to create a modern-day Spice Route, boosting trade ties with potentially wide-ranging geopolitical implications.

The United States, Saudi Arabia, the European Union, the United Arab Emirates and others will launch plans to link data, railway, ports, electricity networks and hydrogen pipelines across the three regions when they meet on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi.

Although heavily trade-focused, the plan could spur major political changes.

Signatories hope it can help integrate India’s vast market of 1.4 billion people with countries to the west, offer a counterbalance to lavish Chinese infrastructure spending, boost Middle Eastern economies and help normalise relations between Israel and Arab Gulf states.

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An alternative to ChiCom's Belt and Road plan.

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The Silk Road is back.
When planes no longer fly, due to government mandated fuel shortage, Camel Caravans will be back too.

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So it is faster to load a container on a ship in India, sail into the Persian Gulf to Dubai, off-load the container to rail, go by rail across Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel to Haifa, off-load the container from rail to ship, and sail to a European port such as Marseille than,

Loading a container on a ship in India and sailing via the Suez Canal to Marseille?

It’s not obvious on a map.

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Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, South Asia practice head at the Eurasia Group, said that a shipping container which today travels from Mumbai, through the Suez Canal to Europe could in the future go by rail from Dubai to Haifa in Israel — saving both money and time — and on to Europe.