After raising tariffs on 184 countries in the world at rates ranging from 10% to 49% and the global shock it caused in the US financial markets, which threatened the world to enter a deep recession, which increased the probability by 65%, President Trump backed off his decision, albeit temporarily, with the exception of China, which he considers the only competitor to the US economy, and the response between the two countries raged and they were in an auction hall without realizing the consequences of those measures.
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What Trump is planning is to seize all the waterways in the world, or what is known as The Straits, in order to control the flow of World Trade, especially China's trade with the world, because the United States realized that China through its "Belt and Road" project, which it launched in 2013 to include easy and safe security of its trade with the world by creating infrastructure for all types of logistics transportation, where it invested in Africa and Latin America nearly a trillion dollars, when the United States felt this danger, it wanted to cut the East-West route by establishing the Spice Route two years ago, but the project collided with the Gaza war where it was hoped to build an alternative channel to the Suez Canal in addition , the United States sent an aircraft carrier to strike the Houthis because this corridor has become unsafe for US ships, and the other most important oil corridor that secures more than 25% of the world oil trade will be safe when the United States is able to negotiate with Iran by concluding trade deals with it under threat, as it is sending another aircraft carrier to that region .
As for the Strait located near the United States, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and was owned by Chinese companies, Trump decided to get his hands on this Strait when he initially tried to launch the hand of BlackRock to acquire the two ports, the first port overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and the other on the Pacific Ocean, but things are still stuck with China, which rejects this deal, prompting the United States, according to its defense minister, to send military forces to Panama to protect the port.
As for the northern corridors of the globe, where everyone knows that the route will be shorter when taking those corridors and it has become more practical today due to the melting of the snow, as it will allow during the coming period of the passage of commercial ships through the North Pole, it was necessary to seize the area that enables the United States to control the North Pole there by seizing the island of Greenland and establishing a military base, not to mention the benefits that the United States will reap when seizing that island because it contains rare elements and other mineral riches.
In conclusion, the global corridors will become in the hands of the United States and will be protected by military force to impose new conditions on the countries of the world in terms of raising duties or preventing and delaying shipments of goods, especially Chinese or raw materials that are received, and will work to inspect ships that pose a threat to their economy in terms of ensuring the presence of raw materials and others or even block countries economically.
GM of the Jobkins Center for Strategic Studies.
Expert, strategic and economic analyst.
Engineer Mohannad Abbas Haddadin.
