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| The '''Eurasian Land-Bridge''' was first formally proposed in 1991 by the American economist, politician and philosopher, ]. It was an outgrowth of earlier proposals he had made for joint European-Asian cooperation on vast ] projects (particularly high-speed rail), in the wake of the collapse of the ]; his first such proposal was made in 1988 in Berlin, when he forecast the imminent demise of the Pact in a speech entitled "U.S. Policy Toward the Reunification of Germany." He followed this in 1989 with a proposal that Western Europe initiate infrastructure projects that would extend from the highly developed region of Western Europe, which he dubbed the "Productive Triangle" (Paris-Vienna-Berlin), across the Eurasian land mass to the Pacific Ocean. Elements of this plan were incorporated in the ], proposed in 1993 by The Transport Infrastructure Committee of the European Union, under ]. Ultimately, however, the initiative for building the vast project came not from the West, but from the East. Following a conference held in China in 1996, which was addressed by ], construction began in earnest. | |||
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