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CONNECTING BEIJING’S GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE: THE PEACE CABLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

6 Mar 2022

Forming the shortest route between Asia and Africa,8 the PEACE Cable Repurposing Gwadar originates in Karachi and the Chinese-built port of Gwadar and proceeds to points in East Africa, Egypt, and Europe The PEACE Cable’s easternmost endpoints are located on before terminating in Marseille.9 The cable will connect the Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast. [...] Hurley, John, Morris, Scott, Portelance, Gailyn, “Examining the Debt and trade between the Indian Ocean and the Red and Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative from a Policy Perspective,” Center for Global Development, March 2018. [...] Djibouti City and the coastal town of Haramous in funding equals 75% of the East African nation’s GDP)19 and host the most land stations for fiber-optic cables crossing the geostrategic value, demonstrated by the Chinese military 14. [...] In the largely autonomous region of Somaliland, the PEACE Cable has added (Bosaso and Berbera in Somaliland have five, Yemen’s Aden, Mocha and al- a second cable to the port of Berbera and a third to Bosaso. [...] Eight landing stations provide Geostrategic Implications For US for 34 midpoints for cables in the Suez Canal Zone and Foreign Policy the Alexandria-Nile region.21 Egypt now has among the largest number of landing stations for fiber optic-cables The PEACE Cable and the larger DSR initiative directly in MENA.22 Egypt’s biggest trading partner, China invests challenge the influence and authority of.
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