Now Hutchison Ports, part of Mr Li's Hutchison Whampoa group, has been blocked from tendering for a port project near an Indian naval base in Mumbai.

ECONOMIST: Fear of China

In 1904, the Russian Fleet took heavy losses when the Japanese fleet blocked them as they were trying to escape from Port Arthur in the battle of the Yellow Sea, part of the Russian-Japanese War.

CNN: Sunday,

The ring road around the western city of Caen was also blocked, and more barricades were set up near the northern port of Le Havre, and at a key entry point to the motorway from the north to Paris.

BBC: French blockades herald travel chaos

Mr Kerry's departure from Cairo had to be delayed because hundreds of Al-Ahly football supporters, known as Ultras, blocked the road to the airport demanding justice over last year's football riot in Port Said in which 74 fans died.

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