Heartland Reunion: Geopolitical Chimera or Historical Chance?

... parallel with post-War Western Europe here, when the reconciliation between France and Germany led to the launch of European integration processes. In turn, it was ultimately France and Germany that benefitted most from this process: the political will ... ... leaders in Paris and Bonn paid off time after time in the following decades. The numerous benefits of consolidating the Eurasian heartland are too obvious to not be a subject of contemplation on both sides of the Himalayas. Relations between Beijing and New ...