With all the insight and wit that have made Marshall the UK’s most popular writer on geopolitics, this talk is an unmissable meditation on power, politics and the future of humanity. In this gripping talk, the internationally bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography Tim Marshall will lay bare the new geopolitical realities to show how we got here and where we’re going, covering the new space race great-power rivalry technology economics war and what it means for all of us down here on Earth. The next fifty years will change the face of global politics. It’s no coincidence that Russia, China and the USA are leading the way. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much as the mountains, rivers and seas have on Earth. Humans are heading up and out, and we’re taking our power struggles with us. People on Mars within the next ten years. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP.

Now he joins us live in London for a glimpse into the future of life on Earth – and beyond it. For centuries China has tried to ensure that it could never happen.Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography changed the way we think about power.

It matters not whether India wants to cut off China’s river supply, only that it would have the power to do so. China, a country with approximately the same volume of water usage as the USA, but with a population five times as large, will clearly not allow that. This would give India the commanding heights of the Tibetan Plateau and a base from which to push into the Chinese heartland, as well as control of the Tibetan sources of three of China’s great rivers, the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong, which is why Tibet is known as ‘China’s Water Tower’. If China did not control Tibet, it would always be possible that India might attempt to do so. A ring of mountains and ice surrounds it. 4.20 11,654 ratings985 reviews In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space. Of course the border is really the Tibetan–Indian border – and that is precisely why China has always wanted to control it. On the first page of his 2015 blockbuster book, Prisoners of Geography, Marshall invited readers to contemplate Russia’s topography. “Very little trade has moved between China and India over the centuries, and that is unlikely to change soon.

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