Scope — This assessment examines the newly opened Pinglu Canal across China’s southwest, Guangxi and the Beibu Gulf, with particular attention to logistics, industrial geography, ASEAN trade, Chinese supply-chain resilience, ports, commodities, manufacturing, environmental constraints, maritime strategy and the second-order implications for the European Union, Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom through 2031, while … Leggi tutto Pinglu Canal: China’s New Southwest–ASEAN Trade Artery and the Reordering of Regional Economic Geography