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.
过去，世界贸易中的瓶颈数量有限，而且对所有人来说都显而易见。1904年，英国皇家海军(Royal Navy)上将约翰•费舍尔爵士(Sir John Fisher)宣布：“五把钥匙锁住全世界！新加坡、好望角、亚历山大、直布罗陀、多佛。这五把钥匙属于英格兰。”
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