China and India face the biggest dependency on external energy supplies among the world’s rising powers. Having outgrown their domestic energy sources both countries are…
China’s relations with Emerging Europe are often overlooked, but they are set to take on much greater significance over the next decade as the economic and political linkages…
The Suez Canal When it first opened in the 1860s the Suez Canal revolutionised international trade, by cutting the travelling distance from India and the…
Emerging market currencies is a subject I tend to stay away from, its not my particular area of expertise and others can cover the subject…
These two ancient civilisations have much in common; a desire to prevent western domination of the world; an ambition to become the hegemonic power in…
Turkmenistan holds the world’s fourth largest gas reserves; from the Galkynysh Field huge black pipes thread their way east across the vast searing deserts of…
How China and India’s appetite for energy will make them key players in the Middle East The Arabian Sea which divides the Gulf and the Indian…
Key trade routes have helped to define economic and cultural history, providing wealth and cultural exchange, but also causing war and repression. Many merchants, kings…
An HSBC report entitled “The Southern Silk Road, Turbocharging South-South economic growth” was released in June 2011; it has been influential in making the case…