The Hanseatic League dominated Baltic and Northern Sea trade for centuries in the late medieval period. A Kings and Generals video.
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative is an infrastructure project that spans over 60 countries, and will cost over a trillion dollars. The plan is to make it easier for the world to trade with China, by funding roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, and pipelines in Asia and Africa. A Vox video by Sam Ellis.
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Developer-in-Chief Donald Trump just increased the cost of America’s new homes and decreased US construction jobs. How? putting a punitive tariff on imports of wood from Canada. “We’re going to be putting a 20 percent tax on softwood lumber coming in — tariff on softwood coming into the United States from Canada,” tweeted the president.
Canadian softwoods — pine, spruce, fir — are used to frame most new home construction in the USA.
More:
“In New Trade Front, Trump Slaps Tariff on Canadian Lumber,” Peter Baker and Ian Austen, New York Times
“Why Is Trump Bashing Canada All of a Sudden?” Joshua Keating, Slate
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A day in the life of a huge container ship bearing imported goodies, like the ship that brought you the device you’re watching this on. Voyage from Ho-Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam to Ningbo, China.Time-lapse video by Toby Smith.
Where is the Gunhilde Maersk now? Look here.
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The Google search engine has been available in China since 2006, but the firm complied with government censorship restrictions (‘The Great Firewall of China“) until 2010. Disclosure of this fact resulted in Congressional hearings and a Google redirect from China to its Hong Kong site. The conflict was uneasily resolved later after the government realized that 70% of the country’s Web surfers use China’s homegrown search engine, Baidu.
Google China recently had its license renewed, dodging further censorship conflict by building a Chinese version of the DoubleClick advertising delivery platform as its core in-country business.
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