https://www.scmp.com/rss/323543/feed Bruno Maçães, a former Europe minister in Portugal, is a senior adviser at Flint Global and the author of the Dawn of Eurasia. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A new supercontinent is emerging: Eurasia, the combination of Europe and Asia, stretching from Lisbon to Shanghai or Jakarta. The ties binding it are partly about infrastructure, with new land and sea connections multiplying all the time. They are also about ideology, with the clear lines of separation drawn during the cold war now abandoned. And they are about trade, too. Most readers will be surprised to learn that trade between Europe and Asia – let’s call it Eurasian trade – now vastly... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2163877/europe-and-asia-draw-closer-together-will-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2163877/europe-and-asia-draw-closer-together-will-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:02:28 +0000 We live in one of those rare moments in history when the political and economic axis of the world is shifting. Four or five centuries ago, it shifted West. Europe, for so much of its history a quiet backwater, came to rule practically the whole globe. Now this axis is shifting East. We know what this means for Asia. We have seen the majestic skylines and the bullet trains and stations quickly replacing the old camel routes and caravanserai. But what does it mean for the West? Might the colossus... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2042587/will-america-turn-its-back-liberal-west?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2042587/will-america-turn-its-back-liberal-west?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Nov 2016 02:01:00 +0000