Global Power Pivots East

Can America adapt to the new world order or destroy itself preventing its emergence?

History’s wheel is turning. China builds, India grows, BRICS+ surpasses the G7—while America punishes allies and empowers its “enemies.”

In the West, the year 1492 is remembered for two episodes: first, Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, second, the fall of Granada, last stronghold of Moorish Spain. The larger consequence was geopolitical, the compass needle swung westward, ushering in a centuries long reversal in global fortunes.

Wealth that once streamed toward Asia turned into rivers feeding Europe’s ascent.

Silver, gold, sugar, and spices from the Americas ignited like jet fuel. They powered science, industry, and empire. Spain, France, Britain, and the Netherlands—naval and commercial predators—rose on the tide, hollowing out the Ottoman world and diverting trade from India and China to the New World.

Today another hinge of history is swinging. Washington’s unspoken fear of a 21st century turn is no less dramatic: economic gravity shifts eastward, led by China and—critically—India.

Beijing’s gamble in the 1990s—to let free markets breathe, to draw in foreign capital, and to pour trillions into domestic infrastructure—proved as consequential as a century of US industrial growth.

The Belt and Road Initiative, worth more than $1 trillion, is less an infrastructure plan than a circulatory system of steel and concrete veins, designed to reroute the lifeblood of trade across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

By contrast, Washington failed to invest in fast sealift or high speed rail, leaning heavily on rapidly obsolescent military power.

For the last 25 years, America exhausted itself in deserts and mountains, fighting costly wars that drained trillions, cost thousands of U.S. lives—yet delivered little of enduring strategic value.

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