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Re:China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert by mlinksva on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:45PM (#42360271)
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 (#42363908)
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.