There is a whole new opportunity set for those in the energy infrastructure world to build business and earn rising margins.

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In return, Beijing is getting engineering contracts to build port and road infrastructure, winning business for Chinese state-owned enterprises, and showing off what China is good at: building major infrastructure projects in record time.

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Project A likewise provides its companies with the tools and the infrastructure to build a successful online business.

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These are not technologies that build infrastructure or that are mission critical for getting business done.

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The DoD has historically funded technology development and infrastructure build out that no commercial enterprise would have been able to make a business case to justify.

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But the decision paid off and allowed NTC to move beyond our first plateau to build the necessary infrastructure to support a complex, multi-state, and even international business model.

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His view is that this is something of a deliberate strategy, and that Amazon will use he first-party business to drive scale to attract and retain consumers and third-party sellers, to build out its fulfillment infrastructure, to be the anchor tenant for Amazon Web Services and as a source of low-cost capital.

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