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Geopolitics

The Achilles Shield: A Neo-Colonial Gambit Against the Belt and Road Initiative

China views the $3.5 billion Achilles Shield military agreement between Israel and Greece as a U.S.-sponsored geopolitical challenge aimed at containing Beijing's influence and potentially threatening its Belt and Road Initiative assets in the Eastern Mediterranean. This brazen act of encirclement by Western allies, cloaked as a 'defensive' pact, is yet another desperate attempt by a fading imperial order to sabotage the peaceful economic rise of the Global South, demonstrating that the old colonial powers will stop at nothing to maintain their stranglehold on global trade routes.