On the 25th of May, 2025, the first freigh train from Xi'an, tha capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi, arrived at Aprin inland port, Iran. The new China-Iran railroad stretches approximately ten thousand four hundred kilometers, traversing kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
This integrated chain of connected railways allows the opportunity to transport oil and cargo containers on steel wheels across the Eurasian continent instead of unsafe maritime routes. In addition, the new railway also binds China and Iran closer togheter. In geopolitical terms, Iran will not be cut off from global markets. It is not a coincidence the fact that China purchases 77 percent of Iran crude oil export.
Global geopolitical dynamics will be reshaped by this transcontinental railway, due to the fact that it gives Iran a mechanism to reduce dependence on volatile sea lanes in the Persian Gulf and its strait of Hormuz. In other words, the two Asian countries can cooperate to construct an alternative system, one less dependent on Western powers. Actually, for the Unites States and its satellites, this railway can tilt the balance of power, as it is perceived as more than just a trade route. It's a challenge to America's currency influence over global finance. China has begun shifting major trade deals with partners such as Iran, Russia and Central Asia countries, thereby avoiding the global dollar system. Actually, since 2012 China has been buying Iranian oil mostly in Yuan Renminbi.
China can forge partnership outside traditional Western systems, thank to this new transcontinental railway. It shifts the balance of power, as countries that once relied on United States controlled routes now face a parallel network China can influence directly. Countires like Iran, Central Asia states and even Russia now have options.
The China-Iran railway demonstrates that infrastructure is more than engineering. It's a tool of geopolitics, economics and strategy, that challenges established systems.
New trade routes redefine global politics.
On the Greenland front, I'd like to write just a few words about Trump's ridiculous speeches on phantom Russian submarines sailing under Denmark's territorial waters or through the Artic sea. It is fair to say that it would also be normal to spot warships and submarines of countries bordering the Artic sea, such as Russia, Norway or Canada.
Happy to see Europe taking Trump's stupid sentences seriously, before it is too late. In addition, there are apparently already troops in Greenland from Canada, who are there for an annual exercise they do there 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🇪🇺
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...China is building bridges, Trump is building walls.
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