Belt and Road Initiative - Residual Influence

India–European Union FTA meeting: PM Modi with EU Council President Costa and Commission President von der Leyen in New Delhi

India–European Union FTA Forces Europe to Negotiate with Asia’s Industrial Scale

Rebecca Chan3 weeks ago3 weeks ago013 mins

The conclusion of negotiations on the agreement between India and the European Union captures a moment when the former European architecture of “market access” definitively loses its monopoly on truth and turns from an instrument of dictate into a subject of bargaining. The European Commission, in its official communication announcing that the EU and India had…

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping walking in conversation, reflecting Asia redrawing boundaries of influence without the West

Geography Without Masters: How Asia Redraws the Boundaries of Influence Without the West

Rebecca Chan7 months ago7 months ago09 mins

Cargo trains now cross borders in Central Asia without waiting for signatures from Western embassies. Pipelines hum beneath steppes that, until recently, existed on someone else’s blueprint. Ports from Vladivostok to Gwadar connect through corridors that were never part of Cold War atlases. The symbols of the old map fade, but new routes appear with…