China launches replica Titanic project, with Peter Mandelson in tow | Politics | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/01/china-launches-replica-titanic-project-with-peter-mandelson-in-tow
He was one of the key salesmen of New Labour, a Westminster wheeler-dealer whose backstage machinations and silver tongue saw him nicknamed Britain’s svengali of spin.
Now, Tony Blair’s former communications chief Peter Mandelson is pushing a rather different project: the #New_Titanic, a 1bn yuan (£116m) bid to rebuild the doomed passenger liner in a landlocked Chinese county more than 1,200km from the sea.
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The 269-metre New Titanic is the centrepiece of a high-end tourist resort being built in Daying, about 115km east of Sichuan’s capital, Chengdu.
Le #Sichuan ne sera plus seulement célèbre pour sa gastronomie et son piment…