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      <JournalTitle>ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 2, Issue 3</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
      <Season>Dec 2021-Jan 2022</Season>
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        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
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      <ArticleType>Political Science</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>The Great Schism of Geo-politics in 21st Century</ArticleTitle>
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      <FirstPage>321</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>341</LastPage>
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          <FirstName>Oinam Ghanashyam</FirstName>
          <LastName>Khumancha</LastName>
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      <DOI>10.47362/EJSSS.2021.2303</DOI>
      <Abstract>Belt and Road Initiative, Build Back Better World; Maritime Silk Route, Quad, Blue Dot Network; Digital Silk Route, Clean Network; gold-based currency, petro-dollar; Covid-19 vaccine and visa; are these gibberish words, do these words mean anything and have real-life implications, there are questions after questions. Something deviant from globalisation is manifesting in the geopolitics of the world. China with its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ that have land route as well as maritime sea route and accompanied with a component of digital silk route trying to project itself as the ‘Middle Kingdom’. On the other hand, the United States with its military allies formulated Build Back Better World, Blue Dot Network, Clean Network, Covid vaccine visa trying to rejuvenate itself as the sole superpower. This paper terms this phenomenon as the Great Schism of Geo-politics in the 21st Century.</Abstract>
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      <Keywords>Belt and Road Initiative, Build Back Better World, Quad, Clean Network, Covid  Visa, the world divide.</Keywords>
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        <Abstract>https://www.ejsss.net.in/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=13494&amp;title=The Great Schism of Geo-politics in 21st Century</Abstract>
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