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| Why the New Silk Roads terrify WashingtonEscobar, Pepehttp://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/10/why-the-new-silk-roads-terrify-washington/ 
 Publisher:  CounterPunch
 Date Written:  10/10/2016
 Year Published:  2016
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 Almost six years ago, President Putin proposed to Germany 'the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.' This idea represented an immense trade emporium uniting Russia and the EU, or, in Putin's words, "a unified continental market with a capacity worth trillions of dollars."
 
 In a nutshell: Eurasia integration.
 
 Washington panicked.
 
 
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