Emperor’s ‘Epic Fury’: The cycle of debt, war, and imperial decline | Daily FT
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“The Strait of Hormuz was controlled by Portuguese conquerors from 1515 to 1622.”
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— The Portuguese conquest of Hormuz in 1507 occurred when the Portuguese Afonso de Albuquerque attacked Hormuz Island to establish the Fortress of Hormuz. This conquest gave the Portuguese full control …
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— The Kingdom of Hormuz (also known as Hormoz or, archaically, Ormus; Persian: هرمز; Portuguese: Ormuz) was located in the eastern side of the Persian Gulf and extended as far as Bahrain in the west at …
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— The Ottoman campaign against Hormuz took place in 1552–1554. An Ottoman fleet led by Admiral Piri Reis and Seydi Ali Reis was dispatched from the Ottoman harbour of Suez to eliminate the Portuguese pr…
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“The nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956 marked the first stage of the failure of the British imperial mission.”
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— The Suez Canal was blocked for six days from 23 to 29 March 2021 by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal. The 400-metre-long (1,300 ft), 224,000-ton, 20,000 TEU vessel wa…
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— The closure of the Suez Canal from November 1956 to April 1957 was caused by the Second Arab–Israeli war, also known as the Suez Crisis, in 1956. On 26 July 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser…
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— The Suez Canal (; Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa an…
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“The United States and Iran signed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1982 but have not ratified it.”
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— Freedom of navigation (FON) is a principle of law of the sea that ships flying the flag of any sovereign state shall not suffer interference from other states when in international waters, apart from …
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— The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place …
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— The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula, shared by the United Arab Emirate…
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“The Bretton Woods system (1944-1970) pegged major currencies to the U.S. dollar, which was convertible to gold.”
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“President Richard Nixon unilaterally delinked the dollar from gold in 1971.”
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“The Petro-Dollar system requires petroleum exports to be traded exclusively in U.S. dollars.”
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“BRICS nations are strengthening South-South cooperation and considering trade settlements in national currencies.”
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“Venezuela trades oil in Chinese Yuan instead of U.S. dollars.”
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“The 'Make America Great Again' movement prioritizes the fossil fuel industry while disregarding climate change.”
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“Economist Nouriel Roubini warns that damage to oil production facilities could trigger 1970s-style stagflation.”
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