What the Silk Road history teaches about the modern Red Sea crisis

... Road that contributed to the decline of Asian-centered trade. From the point of geopolitical theory, it is natural that a superpower struggles to protect its key trade roads to support its economic stability. In retrospect, since the beginning of the Silk Road trade, the central parts of the road were controlled by a military powerful actor in international relations. It was the Roman and Sassanid Empires that supervised the stable trade from ancient China and India to Europe, and Africa until the VII century....