China upgraded a 225-kilometer highway from China's railway system to the Mongolian border, leaving Friedland the task of convincing someone to finish the highway 80 kilometers farther to Turquoise Hill.

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China upgraded a 140-mile highway from China's railway system to the Mongolian border, leaving Friedland the task of convincing someone to finish the highway 50 miles farther to Turquoise Hill.

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Now it takes a day-and-a-half, thanks to an upgrade of the Friendship Highway, as the China-Nepal road is called, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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The company is banking on the pell-mell construction of China's highway system.

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