China's Mississippi River

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Forget what you learned as a child about the Yangtze River being a remote backwater serving snails to that cute little duck Ping from the boat with the two wise eyes.  Continued economic development--and Chinese unification itself--depends on the world's third-longest river.

The Strategic Importance of the Yangtze River is republished with permission of Stratfor.

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