A Key Seaport On The New Silk Road.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/18/shopping-mall-pakistan-fire-many-dead-dozens-injured/

The Red Sea and Suez Canal being completely irrelevant to trade between China and Africa.

Being inspired by The Silk Road China's Belt & Road Initiative also includes many Dryports (road and rail depots) and Airports. All sorts of things which hadn't been invented back when the Panama Canal opened. 

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is definitely the place to be nerding out over Economic Eras. Although I must confess to being a little hazy on the Physiocrats views on Oil & Gas extraction.

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2026/01/and-all-thats-been-lost-will-be.html

Although that's probably due to it being a fringe French Economic School which everyone thought had died out a few hundred years before anyone learned that Oil & Gas can be useful and, therefore, valuable.

Either way, I must check on what I attempted to write last week. In my fevered state it's entirely possible I just wrote; "Cape Horn, Magellen Strait. Cape Horn, Magellen Strait" over and over again. For about four pages.

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