在伊斯兰堡要开始第二轮谈判之际，没苦硬吃的我，刚拉着Vincent和Mustafa Sayed （Executive Director, Pakistan China Institute) & 龚炯教授一起做了个英文Podcast，感觉瞬间回到了CGTN演播室。

1 Why Pakistan: In July 1971, Kissinger feigned illness during a stop in Islamabad, claiming he needed rest at a mountain resort. In reality, he secretly flew to Beijing aboard a Pakistani jet —laying the groundwork for Nixon’s historic 1972 visit and the eventual U.S.-China rapprochement.

2 Behind this war lies a larger transformation. After years of nonstop geopolitical conflict, the old order — in which trade, capital, and reserve recycling flowed with relative ease through a dollar-centered system — is being weakened by sanctions, trade barriers, strategic rivalry, and resource nationalism. The world is no longer merely interconnected; it is increasingly fragmented. In such an age, war is never only about territory or ideology. It is also about energy, payment systems, logistics, and the struggle to shape the rules of a changing international order.

3 We live in a moment when war, diplomacy, commodities, technology, and markets are no longer separate conversations. They have become one conversation — the conversation about power, and about the shape of the world to come.

And perhaps that is always how history works. Events appear before us in fragments, but beneath them runs a single current: the struggle of nations to survive, to define themselves, and to command the future.