Abstract The world’s major trading partners seem to be engaged in an escalating competition to preserve their economic and political interests, ensuring that no single party controls the management of the global economy. Recently, the competition between them has been intensifying over the creation of cross- border trade corridors, focused on regions that are central to their current and future strategic calculations. This new international competition can be referred to as the Trade Corridors War, which China initiated with the launch of its Belt and Road Initiative in 2013. It had planned for one of these corridors to pass through Middle Eastern countries, and began its rapid implementation. Ten years later, the United States introduced a counterproposal, suggesting the creation of an economic corridor to enhance connectivity and economic integration between Asia, the Arabian Gulf and Europe. This corridor would start from Mundra Port in India, pass through Fujairah Port in the United Arab Emirates, and then extend by rail to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and finally to Haifa Port in Palestine.In light of this, the objective of this research is to examine the goals of these cross-border trade corridors, which lie at the heart of the economic and commercial rivalry between China and the United States. This rivalry aims at controlling global supply chains on one hand, and the United States’ efforts to position India as a potential trade partner and competitor to China on the other hand, along with its strategic partners in the Arabian Gulf. Keywords: India, China, economic corridor, Belt and Road Initiative.
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