Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Water Tensions - China

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Eurasia & Power Competition at Sea

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Professor Geoffrey Gresh discusses the strategic maritime shifts under way from Europe to the Indian Ocean and Pacific Asia and the race for great power status as the earth’s changing landscape is rapidly transforming Eurasia and thus creating a new world order. Topics included Mackinder, Spykman, and Mahan, and cover terrain and sea from Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar to Djibouti's Bab el-Mandeb Strait to China's "String of Pearls" ports (e.g. Gwandar, Pakistan), merits of the "Thucydides Trap" argument, the "Asian Century", and the importance of the underwater submarine cables that countries use to connect themselves to the internet.


Monday, December 23, 2013

Freedom of Navigation

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● Chokepoints - Trade, Resource Logistics ..

Friday, December 20, 2013

Indian Ocean

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2021 China's weakness, the Malacca dilemma - Kamome > .

Inevitable? War over Water


sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...