The most important country you’ve never heard about
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Publicado 2024-05-03
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Djibouti is a tiny country with no resources except for one: its location. China, the United States, and France are just 3 of the powers vying for access to the vital choke point Djibouti borders.
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Special thanks to:
- David Vine, Professor of Anthropology, American University
- Sankalp Gurjar, Author of “The Superpowers’ Playground: Djibouti and Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific in the 21st Century”
- Hassan Cher Hared, Journalist
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-- VIDEO CHAPTERS --
0:00 Intro
5:36 Geography makes history
8:50 Djibouti’s new reality
14:28 China builds a base
16:42 Local impacts
19:37 Geopolitics on steroids
22:58 Conclusion
About:
Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 3.5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmy-nominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways.
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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As a djiboutien citizen we don’t have a say about who coming to the land or leaving its all done behind closed doors. The population is not even aware what is going on around them.
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I was born and raised in Djibouti . Growing up we were so used to Americans or French fighters jets taking off a couple of miles from our high school that the teachers had to pause the lesson for a couple of minutes because you couldn’t hear the person sitting next to you. I moved by myself to the US in my early 20’s and been losing sleep at night knowing that my loved ones are over there and if shit goes south tomorrow there is nothing I can do about it. Shoutout to you Johnny for shining some light on my home country. Appreciate it Sir
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How am i only just finding this channel now? It’s awesome- great job!
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Insightful and a visual feast to boot. I'm so happy to be subscribed!
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People often forget that more than 90% of all the foreign trade is through shipments. These routes and canals are literally what's connecting the world into one giant market.
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As someone from Djibouti, if I give my thoughts on foreign military presence, it's quite intimidating seeing these military bases with their soldiers armed right on roads and along side beaches in the middle of the city, where we commute in our daily life. We do hear quite often jet fighters with their bursting sounds as well. But it seems that we've adapted to it.
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Great analyzing! I’ve always thought ur videos are so fascinating. Greetings from Yemen 🇾🇪
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Great job. Thank you for your hard work and research
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It's the only country that rhymes with "booty", you'd better believe we've heard of it.
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Missed opportunity with the title name. You still have time to fix it, Johnny. Why everyone wants a piece of that Djibouti You’re welcome.
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This was a fascinating JH video for sure. Wonderfully explanatory tool around crucial geopolitics with really beautiful map explainers. Looking forward to a future sequel where you actually go to Djibouti!
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The graphics and animating is incredible. Great reporting as well. Big thumbs up
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How long do you spend making and looking at maps? Jonny: yes.
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I had a friend who was stationed there years ago. I asked him “what was it like?” His response: “it was boring, but hey we needed to be there just incase things get crazy.”
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Been through the canal a handful of times for work... I learned much from your video. Thank you.
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Great stuff. Just subscribed. And many thanks for the tip about Ground News.
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Thank you as always, didn't put much thought into Djibouti. This has opened my eyes.
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2:41 “it’s a lot. Djibouti is a lot. There’s a lot going on in Djibouti” 😏
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Dude, your map animations are next level. The maps are super helpful for illustrations for understanding.
