Plans are underway to build a new trade corridor connecting India to Europe via the Middle East. US, India, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates announced the project during the recent G20 summit. The European Union, France, Italy and Germany are also involved. In this edition of the program, we explore the geopolitics behind this project, as well as the prospect of the actual constructions surrounding it.

Host Ding Heng is joined by Mohammed Saqib, CEO of the Bureau of Research on Industry and Economic Fundamentals, a New Delhi-based consultancy; Guy Burton, Adjunct Professor at the Department of International Affairs, Vesalius College in Brussels; Yin Zhiguang, Professor of International Politics at Fudan University.