Where we shall examine two regions - North America and Southeast Asia - to discern the weaknesses of the shipping and ports infrastructure deployment, and shipfarers' labour conflicts with ship-owners' capitalism in the former continent and the fluid dynamics of deep waterways in the latter Asia-Pacific basin.
That the intolerance, exploitation, slavery, violence, aggression and genocide symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan mercantile globalisation effort persists in contemporary era but characterised by monopoly-capital shipping cartels and financialization capitalism, international labour arbitrage exploitation and the strategic geopolitical positioning of water ways.
Lauren Johnston, Associate Professor, China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney, expressed that despite the prolonged lockdown in Shanghai, China’s dual economy has progressed favourably. The new hukou-related educational and civil administrative reforms have served to underpin not only China’s ‘high-quality development’ and 'common prosperity’ agendas, but even engender the fluidity - and the interconnectivity in geoeconomics - of the Belt and Road Initiative.
For a long seafaring voyage, drop anchor HERE - with maps and embedded references.
Bon voyage!
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