The New Trade Routes and Cold War 2.0: The Geographical Implications: Part#2
Regardless, the showpiece of the CPEC and maybe the most crucial assignment of the entire New Silk Road is the deep water port at Gwadar, located in southern Pakistan on the Iranian border. Growing the port has been a dream of Pakistani elites since the 1960s, and a possibility since roughly 2002, thanks to Chinese finance. To this moment, the cost of constructing the port and its foundation has totaled $248 million. The Chinese Abroad Holding Organization Pakistan (COHCP), whi…
The New Trade Routes and Cold War 2.0: The Geographical Implications: Part#1
For a long time, Pakistan and China have maintained strong connections. These relationships have reached new heights as a result of their collaboration inside the Belt and Street Drive system (BRI). Simultaneously, the fundamental motivations driving their collaborative endeavor to disclose the mind-boggling and dangerous network of linkages in Asia that is steadily forming in light of an impending second Virus War. The relationship between the People's Republic of China and…
The Geostrategic Importance of Taiwan by its Geography to The USA: Part 4
When President Barack Obama spoke to the Australian parliament in 2011 about the United States "turn to Asia," he linked America's key advantages to the achievement of a majority-rules government in the region and promised "every component of American power" to accomplishing "security, success, and poise for all." This placed Taiwan and its democratic future at the center of America's moral and political obligations to th…
The Geostrategic Importance of Taiwan by its Geography to The USA: Part 3
In any event, the United States Congress had a different take on Taiwan's future, passing the Taiwan Relations Act "to declare that harmony and strength in space are in the political, security, and financial interests of the United States, and are concerns of universal concern." The Act went on to say that it wanted to "clarify that the United States' decision to establish discretionary relations with the People's Republic of…
The Geostrategic Importance of Taiwan by its Geography to The USA: Part 2
Aptly asked the Seventh Fleet to prevent any attack on Formosa. As a result of this action, the Chinese administration on Formosa has been asked to halt all air and sea activities against the center region. The Seventh Fleet will see to it that this is completed. The United States was now openly committed to defending Taiwan against Chinese hostility, as well as to maintaining stability in the Taiwan Strait, which may be jeopardized by Taiwanese …
The Geostrategic Importance of Taiwan by its Geography to The USA: Part 1
When Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, it also launched an attack on the Philippines, launching World War II in the Pacific. It was the first shot in the Japanese Empire's campaign to assault and subjugate Southeast Asia in pursuit of its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The planes took out from Taiwan, which was then under Japanese military control. It served as the starting point for attacks on both the Philippines and the D…
Siberian Geography and Chinese and Russian Strategic Goals
West is the biggest importer of Russian LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) but after Crimean annexation with Russia caused a trace of bitterness in the Russian European relationship. Russia changed the pivot using Siberian geography. They called this project “The Power of Siberia” by building an enormous pipeline “From Siberia to China” for feeding the Chinese snowballing energy appetite. The initiation was started by President Vladimir Putin to counter the…
The Geographical Niche for Strategically Goals: South China Sea
If the world’s powers are magnetized toward the South China Sea because of the growing power of China then it is the exact answer. If we observe the USA behavior, we observed that enmity or aggression is not new. The first incident occurred in 1998 when USA’s reconnaissance plane crashed with the Chinese fighter jet. Now this important gateway for commercial and merchant shipping and a subregion for economic and strategic subjects under Indo-Pacif…
