What Is the Suez Canal and Why Is It So Important?

Bloomberg2021-03-26

The Suez Canal, which cuts through Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and Red seas, is so important to world trade that world powers have fought over it since it was completed in 1869. That strategic ...

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