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