The Connectivity War
Recent migration tragedies in the English Channel and on Belarus's western borders underscore the extent to which civilians have become unwitting weapons in a new era of perpetual conflict. With governments reciprocating bad behavior under a cloud of hypocrisy and plausible deniability, a race to the bottom is already under way.
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BERLIN – Many observers have long assumed that the future of geopolitics will be decided in a sea battle over the Taiwan Strait or some rocky outcropping or atoll in the South China Sea. Yet we could probably learn more by examining the treatment of a few thousand desperate refugees in the twenty-first century’s geopolitical backwaters.