Corridors of Power: BRI, IMEC, and the Contest for the Emerging World Order - Global Connectivities

The rivalry between China’s BRI and IMEC is reshaping global geopolitics around the control of strategic corridors and supply chains.

Global Connectivities

📰 The Market as an Arsenal: A New Era of Economic Warfare

Explore the mechanisms by which the market replaces traditional battles as an arsenal. Learn how sanctions and chokepoints shape the world. Read the analysis.

https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/rynek-jako-arsenal-nowa-era-globalnej-wojny-ekonomicznej

#Themarketasanarsenal #Economicwar #Chokepoints #Invisibleinfrastructure #Secondarysanctions

Fundacja Dobre Państwo | Polski Smart Tank

Tłumaczymy złożoność współczesnego świata na język zrozumiały dla każdego. Analizy o demokracji, gospodarce i społeczeństwie.

Fundacja Dobre Państwo
Between Chokepoints and Corridors: Connectivity, Competition, and the Future of Emerging World Order - Global Connectivities

Great power rivalry now unfolds through control of trade routes and infrastructure, where connectivity equals both power and vulnerability.

Global Connectivities

TDM is permitted in law, restricted in practice. Licenses now quietly redraw the boundary. Private terms override public rights, tightening access where it should be open. It lives in contracts, not headlines, and shifts research conditions without notice. Not legislation. Enclosure by agreement.

https://knowledgerights21.org/news-story/closing-the-protection-gap/ #Chokepoints

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran. "These [food system] vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the use of just-in-time #supplychains & the funnelling of much of the world’s #trade through a number of #chokepoints. Some people have long warned that the strait of #Hormuz, alongside the #Suez canal, #Turkish straits, #Panama canal & straits of #Malacca, are critical chokepoints, whose obstruction would threaten the flow of #food, #fertiliser, #fuel & other crucial #agricultural #commodities."
We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian
World oil #chokepoints
https://theconversation.com/the-oil-price-surge-is-just-one-symptom-of-a-supply-chain-network-that-is-not-fit-for-this-age-of-global-tensions-277277. "This narrow corridor [the Strait of #Hormuz] is one of the world’s most #critical #chokepoints - around a 5th of the world’s #oil passes through the strait daily. Its sudden disruption represents a 'chokepoint failure' - a breakdown at a critical node that triggers cascading effects across #global #systems."
The oil price surge is just one symptom of a supply chain network that is not fit for this age of global tensions

Oil prices are responding to risk – not just supply shortages.

The Conversation

Two destroyers could end China - Tom Bilyeu and Peter Zeihan

#Geopolitics #Maritime #Chokepoints

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Aunque el petróleo venezolano pasaba por Malaca, China lo necesitaba. EEUU acaba de demostrar: controlo las rutas Y los recursos. Doctrina Monroe: sigue vigente. Fin del hilo actualizado 🧵⚓ #Geopolítica #ChokePoints #Venezuela #Taiwan #Panamá #Groenlandia #DoctrinaMonroe​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
“The renminbi has a long way to go until it can match the dollar in terms of the depth and liquidity of U.S. capital markets and the ease of moving across borders. But its biggest impediment may be the character of the Chinese state: increasingly authoritarian and unconstrained by the rule of law. ”
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#usdollar #chokepoints #edwardfishman #china