IMEC, first lateral damage
When the well of blood (that of Gaza, for the moment, and hopefully it is no more than there, which we have already seen in excess this month) is dried up and the time comes to observe the whole event with more light, perhaps no one will remember. All in all, having seen the children of flesh and bone so much a month ago, will they deserve to mourn the death of some smoke?
It is already true, however, that the fire of 7 October has caused considerable geopolitical lateral damage. Your name is IMEC: India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. In September, a month before the Gaza fire, an ambitious project was launched with bells back. The world's most populous country, India, the world's richest market, Europe, and the world's leading energy producers, who supposedly had to unite with prosperity and friendship. In the long descriptive title, however, the godfather of the newborn did not come, EE.UU, but he does not care: the president of Bide was sitting next to the president of the table when he signed the constitution of the entity on 9 September with the G20 in New Delhi.
It was clearer that China’s Belt and Road Initiative was ten years old and that the IMEC wanted to be the counterpoint of the forum it was going to celebrate fervently. But it wasn't empty smoke, it was deeper questions. And Blinken's team had every reason to be happy. A few days later, Jack Sullivan's unforgettable statements were not the exits after a happy evening.
The IMEC, on the one hand (probably since it was the most important thing for EE.UU. ), made India an irreversible benefit, or rather, to be paid as a faithful partner in the Quad of Indopacifico: Like China, India has an insatiable need for fuels, which will not be reduced in the future, and not its sweet relations with the Arab and Islamic countries, due to the intense life of its Muslim minority. The second most doubtful intention of the IMEC would be to hold peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel with interest. And finally, if poor Europe also got energy ...
A month after October 7, the entire story of the IMEC has gone to drowned blood in the well. India is silent in the face of the massacre in Gaza to prevent fire from entering home. The relations between Israel and the “good Arabs” will be frustrated for many years, if they ever return, China’s BRI will have headaches, but the IMEC will not be one of them.
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