entrepot

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The limitations of those routes have forced Iran and Hezbollah to lean more heavily on alternatives like Dubai, the United Arab Emirates’ increasingly important global financial entrepôt that Tehran has long used to launder funds and evade sanctions, said the people familiar with the matter, who include a senior U.S. official.

From The Wall Street Journal

Over the past few years, the Emirati leaders have seized opportunities presented by various calamities — including the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine — to cement their nation’s status as a triumphant entrepôt, where British multimillionaires mingle with Russian oligarchs and Indian tycoons.

From New York Times

In time, America became such an entrepôt among these continents that an eighteenth-century visitor, lending this show its title and theme, called Mexico City ‘the archive of the world.’

From New York Times

Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years this week to meet Vladimir Putin at the ancient Silk Road entrepot of Samarkand.

From Reuters

All around them, a city has been transformed: by the dizzying economic expansion of mainland China threatening to make this international entrepôt unnecessary, but also by the crushing of freedoms by Hong Kong’s current rulers, who have filled jails with young political prisoners.

From New York Times