The New World Order

When the leaders of the 7 largest industrialized nations gathered in the UK over the weekend, we were seeing the emergence of a new global power arrangement. And the spark for this new urgency is China.

The current leadership in China has set its sights on becoming a true global superpower, in the way the US and the Soviet Union were after the Second World War. And it chose a novel way of projecting its influence – by building infrastructure for its client states under a program called One Belt, One Road in reference to the Silk Road.

With trillions of dollars to invest in under-developed countries, the program gained traction….enough that the leaders of the Western economy had to shift gears last week after 30 years of inactivity following the collapse of the Soviet Union. As the West again asserts itself, the leaders came up with plans for their own version of One Belt to compete for hearts and minds on Earth at the same time their technologies go head to head on both the moon and Mars.