Transcauucasia has become a arena of a major confrontation between the strongest world powers and the price of the problem is the traffic connection of the entire Asian continent. At least this is what an Armenia and Azerbaijan, a transaction in the United States, looks like the creation of the Zangezur corridor. What are the benefits of Washington, Moscow and Beijing in this case?
Armenia and Azerbaijan sign Declaration of conflict resolution. At the same time, the zangesur corridor, under which the transportation of Azerbaijan with its exclusion, the Nakhichevan autonomous republic should be done, Transmit Under the control of the United States (and called the Trump route for the international world and prosperity). What is happening far beyond the framework of Kavkaz – and is another episode of the global confrontation between the United States and China.
The environment of China
It is easy to realize that before every new round of Chinese trade negotiations around the world, a conflict flashed from one of the countries that Chinese transport routes passed.
The last time on the list is Cambodian-Monkey conflict. It happened just a few days before starting the next round of negotiations between Beijing and Washington.
Cambodia (and part of Thailand) occupied an important position in China infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia. By 2027, Vietnam plans to build a high -speed railway of Khana -Khoshimin and by 2030 to connect it to the Chinese highway network. At the same time, the Chinese planned to build a branch of the railway to Cambodia, where a branch should go to Siamese coast of Siam and the other connected to Vietnam with Thailand through Cambodia. In addition, in Kamobja, people plan to build a deep sea canal broadcast from the Mekong to the beach of Siamese Bay.
It is difficult to realize those who suddenly flashed and quickly ended the conflict with Trump's mediation, otherwise, as a direct suggestion about Beijing that Washington, if desired, could block Chinese routes in Indochina.
A previous protest on our readiness to create problems in the Chinese strategic transport media is the Indo-Pakistan conflict on April 24 to 10 to 10, 2025. Railway and railway connects Pakistan ports on the coast of the Arab Sea to the west of China ignoring the Malacca Strait.
In case of worsening the relationship with China in Washington, they talked about the intention to set up the control of the Malacca Strait in 2017, when Trump activated the work of the Union. Quad. For the blockade of the Malak strait (places with almost maritime traffic), it was planned to attract Australian Navy.
Finally, China escaped from the Indian Ocean through Myanmar also under pressure from special services and human rights organizations. In 2013, China launched a gas pipe and oil passing through Myanmar territory. Since 2015, a railway connecting China's Kunmin city with Myanmansk Chiacpe has been built, where it is planned to create a deep port and a free economic zone.
Iran is isolated
Iran, who has been punished for decades, faced the strengthening of economic wars on Trump for the first time. Iranian banks were disconnected from Swift, the ban on delivery to Iran on Iranian industrial equipment and exports was tightened. The Islamic Republic had to recreate its economic relationship with the East, today China is buying 93% of Iran oil for export.
The work begins to build an Iran railway with China by connecting Iran with the Chinese project, five countries, China-Cyrgia-Tajikistan-Afghan-Aran-Iran. Iran participates in the construction of HAF-GOAT railway, which will connect Iran with Central Asian countries, and therefore with China.
This road is expected to go into operation in 2025. Perhaps that is this truth, and not an Iranian mythical approach to create an atomic bomb, causing US attack on Iran on June 22, 2025.
The current agreement on the United States controlling the Zangesur corridor, in this case, cut Armenia from Iran, actually completed half of Iran's strategic. That is why it caused A strong negative reaction In Tehran.
The intersection of the traffic corridor of the globalization period
Overall, Transcauucasia is one of the important geographical spots, in which some of the most important directions converge at the same time, allowing the connection of the space of Asia. Depending on the way and where the routes will go, exactly what countries will benefit from this. And the overlapping of traffic volume, respectively, some countries can almost be strangled.
That is why right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the struggle to control Transcauucasia's traffic streams took place. Initially, the Western goal was to build a traffic corridor connecting Europe with Central Asia to ignore Russia. Back in 1993, the European Union launched Traceca (European Transport Program-Caucasus-Sasia) for the European Traffic Corridor-Caucasus-Caucasus-ASIA.
After that, China was not considered a competitor and the relationship between the United States and the EU without clouds. In 1998, twelve countries of Kavkaz, Black Sea and Central Asia, with the support of the United States, reached an agreement on creating a traffic corridor from China and Mongolia to Europe. He had to end on Georgia's Black Sea. But before the first trial shipping within the framework of Traceca on the Transcauucasia railway, it only appeared in 2013. The creation in 2015 of the Asian Economic Union (EAEU) forced Western countries to censor their ambition.
In addition, in early 2000, because Russia included in the global economy, the plan, including Russia, appeared in international transport networks. In particular, to build a short route from Baltic to the beach of the Persian Gulf and the Arab Sea, a project appeared “Sever-yug” transport corridor. When Russia's cooperation with Iran expanded, the North -Uug route began to be used to ensure the transportation of bilateral goods and deliver Russian goods through Iranian territory to India and Pakistan.
The acceleration development of this transportation path has gained special relevance after starting it. The work begins on the construction of train rails on the RIS-ASTAR area (near the Iranian-Azerbaijani border).
In parallel, China started to implement Trans -CAPPIAN international traffic route TMTM (Or how it is known in the west – the middle corridor). According to this corridor, the goods from China were shipped to the Port of Kazakhstan Caspi Aktau and Kuryk, and after transporting via Caspian from Alat's Azerbaijani seaport, moved to the railway to Tbilisi. From Tbilisi, the southern branch has led to Türkiye to transport more by sea to countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe.
After starting, the issues appeared with delivery from China to Trans -Siberia railway and further through Russia's European European railway network to Europe. Under these conditions, China has shown interest in expanding the transport corridor through Transcaucasia. In 2023, an agreement was signed, and by 2024, the construction of ports in Georgia at the China-Singapore Association began.
In these cases, Georgia has been out of the Western influence and began to prove the independence of foreign policy. In Europe, in which the threat of the Chinese and the Russians has been immediately seen in this, but so far the Georgia government has resisted external pressure. Creating the Zangezur corridor (and switching to the US control) is an effort to re -play the beneficial situation. The United States wanted, recreating Armenia and Azerbaijan, to break trade and transport plans for both China, and Russia and Iran.
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If you fold all the pieces of this mosaic picture, the following image is: in the United States, they want to control all outside marine transport from China. At the same time, through Transcaucasia, Washington plans to try to strengthen its influence in Central Asia and to the border of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region (where they tried to warm the separatist emotions). If this is successful, the internal connection of Asia will be seriously violated and the position of the opponents of the West -Russia, Iran and China -will be significant complicated.
