Global geostrategic
changes go very fast these days, thanks to the Chinese leadership.
Look
at this, for instance.
Back
in 2010 – just yesterday, one could say – the Chinese corporations had invested
in about 10 of the 50 largest deep-water ports of the world. Now, in 2019,
Chinese money is invested in over 30 of those ports. In addition, the Chinese
merchant marine is currently the world’s second largest.
Becoming
a great maritime power might be a Chinese dream, in the leaders’ minds and
political agenda. It is also a major strategic move, to be added to other
ambitious, huge initiatives China is implementing, at sea and over land. The overall
goal is to be number one by 2049, the centennial year of their revolution. That’s
the way the Chinese leadership, and above all, President Xi, see the world of
tomorrow: China as the pivot, the centre of the international order.
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