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Revision as of 09:43, 1 June 2004 by Burgundavia (talk | contribs) (fixed link)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Eurasian Land-Bridge was first formally proposed in 1991 by the American economist, politician and philosopher, Lyndon LaRouche. It was an outgrowth of earlier proposals he had made for joint European-Asian cooperation on vast infrastructure projects (particularly high-speed rail), in the wake of the collapse of the Warsaw Pact; 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 Delors Plan, proposed in 1993 by The Transport Infrastructure Committee of the European Union, under Jacques Delors. 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 Helga Zepp-LaRouche, construction began in earnest.