The Anglosphere holds the key to the future of international relations

As George Orwell so sagely put it, “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle”. Sadly, this is a battle most political risk analysts are in danger of losing. For, in obsessing about the unicorn of a united, pro-American, anti-Chinese EU, foreign policy thinkers risk wholly neglecting an actually functioning anti-Chinese alliance right under their noses.

The Anglosphere is by far the oddest creature in today’s great power jungle. The UK and the major English-speaking dominions of the former British Empire — united by a shared tradition of English Common Law and the individual political and economic freedoms that flow from it — are easy to overlook. However, allied with the US, the Anglosphere’s institutional and geographical heterogeneity belies a practical geostrategic closeness that Brussels cannot begin to match.

Indeed, the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada act together so often that this most obvious of alliances is rendered almost invisible to the eye. The Anglosphere alliance is simply the most important foreign policy reality that no one is talking about.

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Πηγή: capx.co