{"id":8137,"date":"2025-09-01T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:56:42","slug":"israel-strategic-bridge-between-asia-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2025\/09\/01\/israel-strategic-bridge-between-asia-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel: Strategic Bridge Between Asia and Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/11\/01\/erdogans-move-toward-an-islamic-caliphate\/eye-on-the-middle-east-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7281\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), which aims to establish an economic bridge that connects Asia to Europe via the Middle East, would place Israel at the heart of one of the world\u2019s most ambitious cross-continental connectivity projects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Israel: Strategic Bridge Between Asia and Europe<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2025\/05\/01\/irans-defeat-in-syria-signals-new-middle-east-hierarchy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel My Glory<\/a> | September 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently pledged to breathe new life into the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). The initiative, which aims to establish an economic bridge that connects Asia to Europe via the Middle East, would place Israel at the heart of one of the world\u2019s most ambitious cross-continental connectivity projects and transform the Jewish state into a vital hub for global trade.<\/p>\n<p>First announced in September 2023 during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, IMEC covers 25% of the world\u2019s population and 40% of global economic output. It was interrupted only a few months later due to the outbreak of the Hamas-Israel War in Gaza and the subsequent threats from Iranian proxies on maritime shipping in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/israelmyglory.org\/article\/strategic-bridge-between-asia-and-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), which aims to establish an economic bridge that connects Asia to Europe via the Middle East, would place Israel at the heart of one of the world\u2019s most ambitious cross-continental connectivity projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,233],"tags":[42,256,234,260,65,258,200,175],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-middle-east","tag-china","tag-egypt","tag-friends-of-israel","tag-india","tag-israel","tag-jordan","tag-turkey","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Israel: Strategic Bridge Between Asia and Europe? 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