{"id":141897,"date":"2025-12-07T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141897"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:30:10","slug":"tazara-rail-deal-could-redefine-china-africa-ties-amid-corridor-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141897","title":{"rendered":"Tazara rail deal could redefine China-Africa ties amid \u2018corridor wars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGround has quite literally been broken on a Chinese-funded project to modernise the Tanzania-Zambia railway after years of negotiations, amid intensifying \u201ccorridor wars\u201d as major powers compete to shape transport and trade networks across not just Africa but also Eurasia and beyond.<br \/>\nThe US$1.4 billion upgrade will restore the 1,860km railway, known as Tazara, a vital corridor linking Zambia\u2019s Copperbelt to the Indian Ocean via Tanzania\u2019s Dar es Salaam port, connecting southern and eastern&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3335368\/tazara-rail-deal-could-redefine-china-africa-ties-amid-corridor-wars?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGround has quite literally been broken on a Chinese-funded project to modernise the Tanzania-Zambia railway after years of negotiations, amid intensifying \u201ccorridor wars\u201d as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}