ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Global trade is all at sea
Ongoing wars and political tensions are disrupting and remaking the world's logistical networks
22 January 2025 - 05:00
The wars in Ukraine and Palestine, the expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and US President Donald Trump’s claims on the Panama Canal and Greenland are conspiring to redraw trade routes across the oceans that have marked human expansion and settlement for millennia.
The discontinuous mind may not immediately recognise the way all of these things fit together, but we are compelled to try to make sense of it all. ..
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