Re:China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert
by enraged_camel on Sunday December 08, 2024 @02:20PM
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One of the reasons for the decline of the Ottoman Empire was that sultans spent precious labor and resources on grand projects like this, for example around the Arabian peninsula as well as the Sahara. This ended up contributing to the bankrupting of the empire, which required them to take heftier and heftier loans from Europe and Russia.
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Re:China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert
by mlinksva on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:45PM
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I'd enjoy reading if you have any pointers to such projects. Not coming up with any from web search and asking a LLM. Closest might be the Hijaz Railway and maintaining a large military presence in desert regions.
Re:China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert
by SapporoChris on Monday December 09, 2024 @02:56AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#Decline_and_mod...
"As the Ottoman state attempted to modernize its infrastructure and army in response to outside threats, it opened itself up to a different kind of threat: that of creditors."
That's the closest thing I found related.
Re:China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert
by vondur on Sunday December 08, 2024 @02:47PM
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The Ottomans taking loans from the Russians, their traditional enemy, seems odd. I know they were reluctant allies when fighting Napoleon, but I've never heard of such a financial arrangement.