Reporting and analysis from the places where the balance is shifting.
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A handful of narrow passages carry most of the world's traded goods. The politics of those passages is now the politics of everyone's grocery bill.
Informal arrangements move more food through contested waters than any formal agreement does. Nobody wants to acknowledge them.
Several internationally recognized frontiers are not administered by the governments that claim them. Everyone involved prefers the ambiguity.
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Overhead imagery used to be the exclusive property of a few governments. It is now a purchase order.
Multilateral negotiation has stalled, so states are cutting agreements one pair at a time. The arithmetic of that is worse than it looks.
