NIGHTWATCH Extract: China-Iran Rail + China ReCap

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China-Iran: China's Railways Minister Liu Zhijun will visit Tehran on 12 September to sign a contract between Iran and a Chinese company to build a $2 billion rail link to Iran, according to Iranian Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani. Transport ministers from Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran are expected to gather in Dushanbe in October to firm up the deal for a 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) route that links China and Iran.

NIGHTWATCH Comment: For more than a decade Chinese leaders have talked about linking Chinese rails with systems in Central Asia at meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Within the past five years, the Chinese have backed their talk with investment.

China has railroad projects in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma and now Iran. It has road and pipeline projects in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

Many of the projects are scheduled to be completed by 2012. Their cumulative effect would be to shift the economic focus of Central Asian states from Moscow to Beijing. The advantage China brings is that the Chinese rails would use standard gauge, making it possible to ship from the Pacific Coast of China to Turkey without changing bogeys or moving containers in order to accommodate different rail gauges.

Until the Chinese projects become operational, all rail traffic from Asia to Europe will continue to rely on Russian gauge railroads and multiple gauge changes in Asia and at the border of European states.

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Phi Beta Iota: Never mind the Caliphate, it's dead because India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Turkey want it dead.  Instead, think about the Chinese waging peace with construction, and exporting their excess males to take over Argentina and portions of Africa with war by womb.  We continue to be stunned by what war college scholars call “strategic decrepitude,” i.e. the confusion of powerpoint slides and operational motion with strategic thinking.  Below we list all primary references to China on this website; indirect references are too many to list.

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11.  Journal: Chinese Military Bases in Pakistan, Elsewhere

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