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...other big trading partners [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] WHO BUYS CHINESE GOODS The U.S. Accounts for one-fifth of all Chinese exports. China's top export destinations, 2006 All figures in billions The Netherlands $30.8 Germany $40.3 Britain $24.2 France $13.9 Spain $11.5 Italy $15.9 U.A.E. $11.4 India $14.6 Singapore $23.2 Malaysia $13.5 Australia $13.6 Hong Kong $155.4 Taiwan $20.7 Japan $91.7 South Korea $44.5 Russia $15.8 Note: China figures do not include Hong Kong
Eighteen years from now an old curtain will rise to expose a production that will pave the path for African and European unification once again. The deep blue color of the Mediterranean Sea will not lose a twinkle, the Strait of Gibraltar will still separate Spain from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems...
...France. The conclusions, however, speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...
...destination country hardest hit by the new drug pipeline is Spain. Cocaine has flooded into Spain on smuggling boats, some of which use the same extensive networks that carry illegal migrants. Officials believe that Colombian cartels have long-standing connections in Spain, based partly on their shared language, and that smugglers have converted their old hashish trade into more lucrative cocaine operations. "They are taking advantage of the old marijuana routes into southern Spain," says Matilde Duque, spokeswoman for Spain's Ministry of Health antidrug plan. "The infrastructure is already in place. They are just changing the cargo." Last year...
Seven European governments will open a drug intelligence and operations center in Lisbon later this year. These countries - Spain, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and France - will coordinate with U.S. intelligence officers, and plan to begin surveillance flights over the Atlantic in July. They will also coordinate military and police patrols at sea to try to intercept Latin American drug vessels before they reach Africa or Europe. "Whichever warship is nearest will take the vessel and the drugs to Portugal," says Edwards, of the European Commission's drug unit...