Invasion of Ukraine, New Cold War between the United States and China, Climate and Social Issues, Impact of Covid-19 … The Off-Series “World” draws in forty cards Our planet in an era of doubt and tilting.
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War in Ukraine, Tensions in Europe and in the Indo-Pacific, Covid-19, global warming … To apprehend the new data of the World March, we chose the prism of the cartographic vision. Three representations call our attention. The first puts the weight of the hydrocarbons in Europe, including the northern pipeline stream 2 connecting Russia to Germany, and the Ukrainian conflict that poisons the Old Continent and threatens world peace, after violations of international law by Moscow and The blows against the territorial integrity of Ukraine. In the name of a neo-imperial ambition, Postoviet Russia disfigures the neighboring states, which refuse all the vassalization of it. As if, on the Russian side, the world could still share in spheres of influence.
The second shows the Chinese economic advance on the world planisphere between 2000 and today. In twenty years, China has become the first economic partner of virtually every country in Asia, Oceania, Africa and even in Eastern Europe against the United States. By illustrating this Chinese predominance by country with a color, we lead to a red spot that is reminiscent of the book of the former director of the world André Fontaine the red spot. The novel of the Cold War (La Martinière, 2004), who used this image to show the advance of the Soviet bloc and its allies in the 1960s.
Tensions and anxiety
Finally, the third highlights the Sino-American face-to-face. The planisphere is no longer European-centered, as often under our latitudes, but pacifico-centered. Thus, from our point of view, the Earth – as well as geopolitical issues – is performing a rotation, and its center would now move 180 degrees. China is separated from the United States by the Pacific Ocean, which has become the theater of rivalries between the two powers. Beijing seeks to expand its influence in this immense extent of innumerable islands, where a third of the world trade passes, while the United States strives to contain its expansion by strengthening their alliances and further concentrating their troops. .
Le Monde has seized this new global geopolitics, whose contours are gradually drawn under our looks disturbed by the tensions it arouses in the Indo-Pacific or to wake up in Europe, Near East and Africa. Not to mention our concern about the effects of the Pandemic of Covid-19 on humanity. To represent the faces of the new geopolitics in forty cards made by the world infographic service, it is to project our imaginary in a twentieth century which, now well started, keeps shaking our certainties and to interrogate our responsibilities. It is also referring to our collective heritage of past centuries, which does not intend to be reduced under the blows of the rise of technical progress and other climate, social or sanitary challenges …
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