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Centuries ago the Orient supplied Europe with the wondrous luxuries it craved -- jewels, silk, jade, spices -- sending its produce along the dusty caravan route known as the Silk Road. Today, China has become the world's workshop and Europe has an insatiable appetite for its exports. Most now arrive on giant container ships. But as ports become clogged and delivery times critical, China is once again looking to the old land routes across Asia. But the new Silk Road China is planning will be made of steel. At both ends of the route, rail systems are being developed and modernized apace. In Europe, new high-speed corridors are spreading across the continent, with exporters taking advantage of the rebuilt infrastructure across the old Iron Curtain and Brussels promoting Europe's railway integration. In China, billions of pounds are being spent each year on a new network of 42 high-speed lines criss-crossing the country and opening up distant provinces to the wealth of its industrial heartlands. The problem, however, lies in the vast distance between East and West. Adapted from the source document.

It is the biggest investment Britain has ever made in any of its overseas territories. Over the next three years, the Government will pay South African contractors [pounds]250 million to build and operate one of the costliest, more challenging and more remote airports anywhere in the world -- on top of a mountain on the island of St Helena. Adapted from the source document.

Egypt and the Arab Spring --. - The Muslim brotherhood and its ideologues --. - Political Islam is power --. - The liberal movement and its lost voice --. - What went wrong with Mubarak --. - SCAF and the turbulent transition --. - The brotherhood's constitution of 2012 --. - The Sharia --. - Photographic plate section --. - The United States, Egypt and the Arab World --. - The Arab League --. - The Arab Media --. - Israel - Geopolitical reality --. - Turkey - The only Muslim Middle Eastern Democracy --. - The Colonel's Legacy --. - The Modernisers Ismail and Fuad --. - The Landscape --. - Morsi and the General