In early September, Myanmar's President U Min Aung Hlaing concluded a state visit to Vietnam that produced more than ceremonial warmth — it yielded a structured two-year diplomatic roadmap and the outline of an economic corridor that could one day link the Pacific coast to the Indian Ocean. The two nations, each holding a geographic key the other lacks, are exploring whether their complementary positions on the map might be converted into shared prosperity through transit routes threading Laos and Thailand. It is the kind of agreement that reminds us how geography remains destiny, and how the