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Moved the semicondutor geopolitics chat to a better thread for it, one that @Bogeyman has diligently been updating a long while now: https://defencehub.live/threads/what%E2%80%99s-harder-to-find-than-microchips-the-equipment-that-makes-them.10680/ Folks, please keep this thread strictly for...

There is pricing/time between these two (shipping and air). i.e trading off price and time. Air gets really expensive for the amount transported, the items have to be very premium on timely delivery generally. Thats why worldwide (where routing available for all) rail and road handle lot of...

No, its not a dream for India or US (cutting out China out of world future). It will be a hedge, that is all. There is deep extensive economic relations between US-China-India in all directions even with political relations declining between China and the other two. There is no absolute to be...

Guys I have moved most of the later replies to the IMEC thread now. Anything IMEC related, best to continue conversation there. Thanks. https://defencehub.live/threads/india-middle-east-economic-corridor-imec-thread.18303

Moving the conversation here if any members want to take discussion further (especially any non-Turkish foreign policy related etc). The initial reply quotes can be used to see origins of this thread in the TR foreign policy thread.

In any case, I am waiting for more details to come out over next few months and then next year. Then I will pass more judgement. The issue with BRI was it was done at large scales (build it and they will come) quite recklessly, I don't see the same here as its region specific between two...

Suez is at near full capacity, even with its ship size restriction. Its why the largest cargo ships (that offer the lowest shipping prices) already go around Africa instead. How a land corridor (rail and road) competes in the region for various tiers of goods that have more premium w.r.t...

Do you understand what ship-ship routes are compared to for goods that are more time and corridor sensitive? Do you literally understand what the whole premise was for BRI compared to expanding more shipping and harbour capacity...given shipping pricepoint is by far the lowest? Why China...

Sorry but no one is going to invest in Basra port and the tenuous route through Iraq with its deep scars, extreme factional politics, strife and instability and Iran overlooking and involving itself like it does all along it (KSA and UAE definitely will not). You either go directly through Iran...

I call it as I see it, the tone is literally the most neutral one given the circumstances long discussed with Turkish members in various threads over time....who have taken tones far far harsher on the Erdogan admin than I ever would desire to. Turkish GDP by its own estimate in 2020 - 2025 is...

Nope. It might have been possible if the Erdogan admin didnt go out of its way to wreck the Turkish economy to the level it is now extremely beholden to KSA and UAE forex support and the associated 180 reversals suddenly taken in relations. Where in the 1- 10 scale those changes are taken...

Throwback time @Jackdaws et al

Brutal demolition https://apnews.com/article/kohli-asia-cup-cricket-rahul-india-pakistan-3ab74abc7251367555e3a48363034589 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — India cruised to a record 228-run win over rival Pakistan on Monday and collected crucial points in the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup. Having...

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor-what-is-the-project-why-is-it-being-proposed-8932332/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/9/g20-summit-transport-project-to-link-india-to-middle-east-europe-unveiled...

24 billion dollars by china in 2016? That cannot be right surely...

My condolences to the Moroccan nation for its losses, especially the loss of life from this calamity that struck. Help is arriving from all around Morocco and the World, that is good to see the human brotherhood in such trying times. May the relief work all go as well as it can. 🙏

https://www.facebook.com/meilteam.in/videos/icomms-composite-rocket-motor-casings-for-drdo/3371219039764107/