Undoing the Belt

 Once upon a time, there was a Silk Road. Every silkworm was in China, and the rest of Eurasia wanted silk, so traders travelled to China and brought silk to the rest of Eurasia. Then China went isolationist: if it was made in China, it should only be sold in China to Chinese, and Chinese must only buy Made-in-China products. China has gone from internationalist to isolationist to internationalist many times in the 5,000 or so years of recorded Chinese history.

Now the PRC wants to rebuild the old Silk Road in what they call the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). And the US will do anything to stop them.

Hence the Ghaza: a huge canal from Aqaba to Ghaza that will overshadow the Suez, with the Ghaza as a major port (Gaza is a mistransliteration of the Arabic). This will be part of a new India-based trading partnership that (the US and India hope) will surpass the BRI.

But first, the Ghaza must be cleansed of all Philistines (David would have approved).