Following the onset of the Ukraine conflict in 2014, Russia accelerated its previously declared “pivot to the east” and began to outline a vision of an integrated “Greater Eurasia”. This roughly coincided with China’s launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, which similarly aims to increase trade and connectivity across the Eurasian supercontinent. Although both these projects are somewhat lacking in conceptual detail, they point toward the possibility that the core of the Eurasian landmass is returning to the centre of global affairs after five centuries of Western naval supremacy. Accordingly, the European Union recently announced an Asian connectivity strategy …read more
Source:: National Newswatch
