This week, as global leaders descend on San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, he (Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin) is bringing perhaps his biggest pitch yet to a new crowd of potential investors:Landbridge, a $28 billion infrastructure project that offers an alternative trade route through Southeast Asia that would bypass one of the world’s busiest sea lanes.
The proposed 100-kilometer bridge that would cut across the Kra Isthmus, the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula, would connect the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean without requiring ships to sail down along the tip of Singapore through the narrow Malacca Strait, which is known to experience congestion, collisions, and even piracy. The Landbridge is estimated by Thai authorities to cut transport duration by an average of four days and lower shipping costs by 15%. Nov.14 https://time.com/6334807/srettha-thailand-landbridge-investors-apec/
Lunar eclipses can overturn previous narratives with dramatic disruption. The Taurus Lunar Eclipse on 28 October possesses a particularly potent force that will incite bold movement. The changes that emanate can ultimately be empowering.
With the North Node in Aries, its ruler Mars provides an important dynamic. Mars can reset our capacity for courageously taking action. Its placement in Scorpio implies that it is willing to apply willpower to create the life we wish to live.
The fixed earth of Taurus that exalts the Moon has a connection with the material goods and resources we need for survival. The lunar eclipse in Taurus increases the potential for overturning old attachments and breaking fixed patterns in radical ways. The disorientation may feel stressful, but a profound reorientation can take place full of dynamic creativity.
A chart for the lunar eclipse at the co-ordinates of the Kra Isthmus has it powerfully placed in hard aspect to both the horizon and meridian axes.
And surprise of surprises the Sabian symbol for the eclipse Moon tells us exactly what the new idea is that can replace what we thought was impossible.
PHASE 36 (TAURUS 6°): CANTILEVER BRIDGE ACROSS A DEEP GORGE.
KEYNOTE: The conquest of separativeness through group-cooperation.
All great evolutionary challenges imply the overcoming of basic difficulties. A step ahead must be taken, yet an abyss confronts evolving man. A link must be built through the power of the collective mind of the group or of the community at large, on the basis of the legacy of the past, to make a bridge over the canyon.
The grand strategic goal is first and foremost to pioneer a viable alternative to the Malacca Strait, though ideally with the supplementary goal of getting China and the US to jointly cooperate on this in order to accelerate the incipient thawing of their tensions.
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