03-01 Geopolitics
When my wife and I met young students everywhere in China in 1985 that spoke perfect English it was a signal that the Communist Party had a long-term strategic interest in challenging the dominant position of the US in the world. Let’s just call it Chinese geopolitics.And one of the first rules for understanding a…
03-02 The EU
What in the world is China doing building a major bridge in Belgrade, Serbia? Well, it’s about building trade routes. And this is just a peek into what China is investing in Europe.We are also talking about container terminals, airports, shipbuilding facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, nuclear power plants and whatever. Huawei Technologies, to give one example…
03-03 South Asia
“India and Pakistan” is geography that I can understand when people use the term “South Asia”. And we should all pay attention if China has geopolitical interests in this part of the world, because both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers, and bitter political rivals.But this region also includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Sri…
03-04 South China Sea
The colourful map shows just how complex the geography of the area is with all the overlapping jurisdictions created by the many thousands of small islands not shown on the map, and each nations jurisdictional claims.The major players in the area are, of course, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Taiwan.It is not hard…
03-05 LAC
During my active years in the 1970s and 1980s with the International Small Business Congress, I became friendly with senior officials of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. They were investment banks linked to the United States, that followed strict guidelines before lending to developing nations.So, it is not a surprise that they…
03-06 Africa
It would not be hard to declare China’s strategic interest in Africa as being oil. After all, China is the world’s largest consumer of energy. And in terms of major exporters of energy in Africa we are looking at Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Egypt and Libya. The photo shows a Chinese investment in crude oil production.But…