Geopolitics: Chola’s Blue Highway – The Forgotten Competitor to Silk Route Bay of Bengal was a like lake in the backyard for Chola. Indian Ocean was under their hegemony. A trade war for Transhipment Harbour and Preferential Trade of Tamil. Now history repeats in different way – US China Trade War. Covid19 is beginning of new world order. The Asia Maritime Trade and Geopolitics in 11 th Century was simultaneous rise of powerful corporate empires in several parts of Asia: the Chola empire of South India, the Srivijaya empire of Sumatra, the Khmer empire of Cambodia, the empire of Champa in Vietnam and China under the Song dynasty. These empires had preferential trade agreements, stationed diplomatic missions and exchange of trade delegations. The deep-rooted commercial interests drove the political and cultural relations between these empires. Pattinapalai (ancient poem) talks of Puhar having a big colony of foreign merchants and mentions of items of trade. The Ma
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