Time was when the bottlenecks in global trade were limited in number and obvious to all. In 1904, the British Royal Navy admiral Sir John Fisher declared: “Five keys lock up the world! Singapore, the Cape, Alexandria, Gibraltar, Dover. These five keys belong to England.”You can see his point, though it didn’t last. Britain’s loss of control in 1956 over the Suez Canal, for which Alexandria had been the main local port, served as a marker for the end of its empire.
過去，世界貿易中的瓶頸數量有限，而且對所有人來說都顯而易見。1904年，英國皇家海軍(Royal Navy)上將約翰?費舍爾爵士(Sir John Fisher)宣布：“五把鑰匙鎖住全世界！新加坡、好望角、亞歷山大、直布羅陀、多佛。這五把鑰匙屬于英格蘭。”
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