{"id":45298,"date":"2026-05-19T06:54:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45298"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:54:05","slug":"china-is-cutting-a-134-kilometer-canal-so-ships-can-enter-deep-into-river-routes-and-the-project-shows-how-seriously-beijing-is-redrawing-natural-borders-for-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45298","title":{"rendered":"China is cutting a 134-kilometer canal so ships can enter deep into river routes, and the project shows how seriously Beijing is redrawing natural borders for trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/china-is-cutting-a-134-kilometer-canal-so-ships-can-enter-deep-into-river-routes-and-the-project-shows-how-seriously-beijing-is-redrawing-natural-borders-for-trade\/31701\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pinglu-canal-construction-china-inland-waterway-trade-route.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:164px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>China is pushing ahead with the Pinglu Canal, a massive 83-mile (134-kilometer) waterway designed to let ships move from inland rivers to international sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/china-is-cutting-a-134-kilometer-canal-so-ships-can-enter-deep-into-river-routes-and-the-project-shows-how-seriously-beijing-is-redrawing-natural-borders-for-trade\/31701\/\">China is cutting a 134-kilometer canal so ships can enter deep into river routes, and the project shows how seriously Beijing is redrawing natural borders for trade<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is pushing ahead with the Pinglu Canal, a massive 83-mile (134-kilometer)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2258,150,564],"class_list":["post-45298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canals","tag-china","tag-shipping","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45301,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45298\/revisions\/45301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}