A New Line in Empire
Though much of the West has withdrawn from empire, one of the world’s rising powers offers the latest twist on imperialism.
What is the use of it, none can conjecture,
What it will carry, there is none can define,
And in spite of George Curzon’s superior lecture,
It is clearly naught but a lunatic line.
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