The New Silk Roads

China's Grand Gamble and the Future of Global Trade

Faridah Osman

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English

Vij Books
30 November 2025

Geopolitics; International economics; International business

Power is moving from parliaments to ports-and most people are not looking. This book reveals how concrete, code and contracts decide who prospers, who pays and who must ask permission. If you care about Belt and Road Initiative debates, supply chains, or the next map of commerce, this is your field guide.

You will learn a simple method to read any corridor. It shows how financing, standards and the fine print turn engineering into leverage. It explains the arguments around the so-called China debt trap debate without slogans, and maps the choices facing Europe, America and India. For investors, policy teams and serious readers of world affairs, it offers practical clarity on global trade routes and the politics of infrastructure diplomacy.

Decode how ports, rails and fibre shift bargaining power See how contracts, not headlines, create dependence or autonomy Understand the real options behind US China rivalry trade and India corridor strategy Apply a portable checklist to test projects before they test you

Written in clean, accessible prose, it replaces noise with judgment. Whether you follow geoeconomics of infrastructure, ask what the BRI book crowd is missing, or want a grounded take on the new silk road book, you will finish with a durable mental model. The next decade will be decided by routes. Learn to read them-and act before the map hardens.

By: Faridah Osman
Imprint: Vij Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 218g
ISBN: 9789390349470
ISBN 10: 9390349478
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 30 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Faridah Osman writes where maps meet money. Drawn to the old caravan routes of North and East Africa and the container ships that now trace them in steel, her work follows a simple question: who controls the corridor, and at what human cost? She brings a geographer's eye for terrain, a reporter's patience with documents and a historian's memory for the long shadow of empire-from dhows on the Swahili coast to rail lines threading new inland capitals. Her pages carry the quiet authority of someone who listens first: to dockworkers, civil servants, engineers, small traders. Faridah's project is to make the hidden wiring of global trade intelligible, so that citizens and leaders can choose better. She believes that sovereignty is not a flag but a flow-and that good judgment begins with seeing the routes beneath our feet.