Suez Canal

Ankara seeks to include Egypt in a new defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, but Cairo is leveraging this rapprochement to promote investments, a Turkish industrial zone in the Suez Canal, and an increase in bilateral trade to $15 billion.

A Chinese container ship has set sail for Europe via the North Pole. This move allows Beijing to bypass the Suez Canal and halve the journey time, following disruptions in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.

The United States' war against Iran has become a war of no choice, because at stake is the American ability to control the sea, which is the fundamental condition for superpower status.