Geoconomic Signals

Everyone talks about IMEC like it’s a map. It’s not. It’s a two-lane bridge that was never meant to carry the weight it now holds. When the Allenby Bridge closed, most of the region’s trade shifted to the Jordan River Crossing, a checkpoint built for 150 trucks a day that suddenly became the only working link between the Mediterranean and the Gulf. No ceremony marked the shift, no agreement announced it - it simply happened.

And that’s how corridors are really tested: not by declarations, but by pressure. Here are five signals that tell the story.

This week offered a quiet but revealing moment in the evolving architecture of the Indo-Abrahamic region. Indonesia’s planned - and later canceled - presidential visit to Israel exposed the tension between ideology and pragmatism that increasingly defines global diplomacy. Beyond the headlines, five strategic signals emerged that matter for policymakers, investors, and corridor builders alike.