| Maritime Silk Road | Морской шёлковый путь (e.g., Beijing seeks to secure the commercial sea routes along China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR). The Maritime Silk Road is a China-to-Europe maritime commercial transportation corridor consisting of a series of Chinese-built port installations extending westward across the Indian Ocean and then via the Red Sea and Suez Canal to the now Chinese-owned Pireaus seaport, on Greece’s Mediterranean coast. Having heavily invested in Piraeus to transform it into one of the world’s state-of-the container ports, Beijing now owns and operates one of the European Union’s major seaports as the MSR’s main outlet point for Chinese goods to enter European markets. Alex_Odeychuk) |
