The world and our lives are ever changing, and in increasing rates due to (and pushed by) technological advances and climate changes (as you’d see later in this article), and what I consider most significantly by the exploding big data (see my post on 4th industrial revolution) and availability and ready access to all via internet and the increasing speed (such as the already happening 5G). I remain of hope that all these changes will bring about global peace as humans learn to share the global benefits and responsibilities in facing challenges, leading to carefree lives to all.
In this post, I’d like to share the an article published by World Economic Forum Nov 1, 2018 – “The collision of these 3 geographies is creating a new world order”. In it, it outlines what are going to shape our new world, the impacts and the driving forces – may be providing some background and understanding of China’s push on Belt and Road Initiative (see above image), and new shipping routes (see above image) made possible by global warning. These are all happening and are and will continue to be hot issues globally as all interested parties would like to dominate the control and extract maximum benefits.
This article is a very interesting read, but I’d leave with some teaser excerpts below, enjoy and contemplate:
In the 21st century, East and West are meaningless constructs. More important is how actors and institutions resolve the contradictions that will inevitably arise in Indo-Pacific, Eurasia and the Arctic. This is that strange and rare moment when global governance is more than the sum of its parts or individual regional configurations.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), may, therefore, posit itself as the guardian of Eurasian stability, in contrast to an OSCE or NATO, that has hitherto played this role.
In other words, with geostrategic conduits like the Suez Canal and the Malacca Straits possibly approaching their expiry dates, the imperative to secure Arctic sea lanes may well leave erstwhile routes bereft of powers willing to protect them.
The global shipping giant Maersk, for example, completed its first voyage unassisted by ice-breakers August 2018
…..global politics will operate in 50 shades of grey for the foreseeable future.
Credits and Sources
The collision of these 3 geographies is creating a new world order. (2019). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 25 April 2019, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/eurasia-indo-pacific-arctic-new-world-order?fbclid=IwAR3EdOJPC0tYZbS6hgesZ7WNXf491eckecNLOPWt9fe480oNO9VVaBNldmc
Reuters images – sources as credited above in the images