Saturday, March 21, 2020

Bunting's map and Israel on China's new silk road

Ed.'s note: Some information we thought we would post in case everyone has been distracted by this coronavirus-induced toilet paper apocalypse.

Worth an overview to connect all this on what is going on: History of Espionage Summary
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Source: Times of Israel

October 15, 2016

Yossef Bodansky, an Israeli-American political scientist and senior editor of GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily, wrote an insightful article in their September issue regarding the convergence of China's Afro-Eurasian integration project and Bunting's map of the world as a clover leaf.

Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat (The entire World in a Cloverleaf). Jerusalem is in the centre of the map surrounded by the three continents. Source: Wikipedia.

Heinrich Bunting was a German Protestant pastor, theologist and cartographer, and in his masterpiece Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture) in 1581, he portrayed the world that mattered was comprised of the three continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with each depicted as a cloverleaf. They converged in Jerusalem, and the rest of the world was irrelevant.

In his article entitled "The History of What's Next", Bodansky argued that the Bunting map is likely the best depiction of the unfolding global geopolitical architecture of the 21st century. With the demise of the Arab modern state and Sykes-Picot post-Arab Spring, "Libya, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are no more, and Jordan and Yemen are not far behind."

Instead, what is arising is the merging of the greater Middle East and the greater framework of the reawakened Mackinderian world order. And, the clover leaf world centred on Jerusalem is converging with China's One Belt, One Road project.

Israel as key node on China's New Silk Road

With the rise of Salafi-jihadism in the Middle East increasingly threatening China's overseas citizens and assets, especially to their maritime trade via the Suez Canal, Israel is emerging as a strategic node on China’s southern corridor on the New Silk Road.

Source: Diplomatic Courier

As the world's largest trading nation and with over 95% of global trade still being seaborne, Beijing is heavily dependent on the Canal to reach its largest export market in Europe—with trade volume at €521 billion in 2015. Geography matters, and the Middle East is also where China imports more than half of its crude oil.

However, the presence of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups in the Sinai are threatening China's maritime trade. As such, China is building a "steel canal" of the Med-Red Railway through Israel to connect the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea that bypasses the Suez.

Please go to Times of Israel to read the entire article.
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