Hello and welcome back to What China Wants.
I’m excited to announce the start of a weekly newsletter looking at China’s role in the changing world order, called “Briefly”. It is something that my team at the Adarga Research Institute (ARI) puts together and so I’m going to share it here too.
Briefly is drafted using the incredible AI tech that has been developed by Adarga to analyse the geopolitical world. To quote:
This Briefly report combines the analytical expertise of the ARI with Adarga’s Vantage software, which is designed to increase the quality, speed, and breadth of intelligence outputs through the application of cutting-edge AI tools, enabling key insight to be derived from huge volumes of diverse information.
In other words, it is one of the most powerful tools out there for working out the geopolitical reality. A few stats:
· Time taken to generate research for this report with Adarga Vantage: <10 seconds
· Articles & papers scanned: 5.2m
· Languages covered: 55
· Including articles from: China, India, Qatar, Turkey, UK, US & UAE
I don’t want to sound too enthusiastic about this, but my analysis of China (and other matters of geopolitical importance) has been completely changed by using this software. Imagine doing all this analysis – going through millions of docs - as a human analyst using Google?
Anyway, over to the actual analysis. In today’s edition we cover China in the Middle East, military drills in the South China Sea, and something I’m particularly interested in: the beginning of what we call the "52nd Meridian Challenge". This is how the Counter Aligned countries of Iran and Russia are able to block off Central Asia from the West, and indeed to stop all East-West traffic across the Eurasian landmass.*
Click here to see the newsletter. Please do sign up to Adarga to receive these reports directly from Adarga, and I look forward to sharing wider geopolitical analysis soon.
Best wishes
Sam