The New World Order is not turning out as planned. Instead of all power emanating from London and Washington, new power centres are emerging to the South and East: a new global equilibrium raises the possibility of a new post-imperial age of peace and equality between nations.
Posted by inthesenewtimes on August 31, 2010
29th August, 2010
The Kenyan government defended its failure to arrest Sudan’s president while he was in Nairobi on Friday, citing strategic interest in the neighbouring country.
Richard Onyonka, an assistant foreign minister, said today that arrestingOmar al-Bashir may have risked adversely affected peace in Sudan.
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Posted by inthesenewtimes on August 29, 2010
Pepe Escobar
27th August, 2010
Hollywood executives and Washington policymakers are suckers for Russophobia. Considering the appalling level of political discourse in both these capitals of mass entertainment, certainly one cannot expect their “opinion leaders” to have read Professor Paul Kennedy’s recent expose of European history packaged as a crash course to Americans about the inevitable downsizing of the US in the emerging, multipolar new world order.
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Posted by inthesenewtimes on August 2, 2010
Jian Junbo
31st July, 2010
China and Germany are moving toward a closer and friendlier partnership, a process that seemed highly unlikely just three years ago and which could provide Beijing with an influential ally on the world stage.
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Posted by smeddum on July 21, 2010
LONDON April 27 (Reuters) – After the dynamic growth of the BRIC countries in the last decade, a batch of six more countries — the CIVETS — will be the ones to watch in the next 10 years, HSBC’s (HSBA.L) (0005.HK) chief executive predicted. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 21, 2010
9/7/10
Peter Lee
The Obama administration took office in 2009 determined to move beyond might-makes-right-makes-might unilateralism of the Bush years, and reassert America’s global influence as the most principled and powerful guarantor of rule-based multilateralism.
With respect to China, this approach was presented as a doctrine of “strategic reassurance”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 18, 2010
17/7/2010
Despite talk of the double dip recession, in terms of recent articles, this is one of the few that recognises the increasing role of multipolarity in the world economy
Growth in dynamic Asian region can help to avoid double-dip international recession, writes PAUL GILLESPIE
‘ASIA’S TIME has come. No one can doubt that Asia’s economic performance will continue to grow in importance.” Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund made this remark at a meeting in Daejeon, South Korea this week on the region’s economy. His pledge to increase Asian voting rights in the IMF bore it out.
So did his apology for the policy mistakes made by the IMF in handling the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Asian growth at 7.75 per cent will be key to avoiding a double-dip international recession, he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2010
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By F. William Engdahl Online Journal Contributing Writer Jul 12, 2010, 00:21 |
In the postwar history of the Federal Republic, German chancellors tend to disappear once they pursue political goals that deviate from the Washington global agenda too much.
In the case of Gerhard Schroeder, it involved two unforgiveable “sins.” The first was his open opposition to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. The second, far more serious strategically, was his negotiations with Russia’s Putin to bring a major new natural gas pipeline directly from Russia, bypassing then-hostile Poland, to Germany. Today the first section of that Nord Stream gas pipeline has reached the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern coastal town of Lubmin on the Baltic Sea, making Lubmin into a geopolitical pivot for Europe and Russia. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by inthesenewtimes on July 7, 2010
Eric Walberg
7th July, 2010
The Russian leader has re-enacted the famous American goodwill tour of his predecessor a half century ago, but faces the same Cold War scheming. Will his attempts to befriend Europe have more success
The past two years have witnessed a much more pliable Russia, retreating from the fiery rhetoric of Putin concerning NATO, the war in Afghanistan and America ’s targetting of Iran. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has turned Russian foreign policy around, playing to US. He signed the new START treaty, agreed to transit war materiel to Afghanistan, and supports US-sponsored sanctions against Iran. To crown his charm offensive, he made a photo-op visit to the US last month to meet not only his “reset” friend in the White House, but business leaders such as Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley, much like his predecessor Nikita Khrushchev rubbed shoulders with American farmers a half century ago.
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Posted by inthesenewtimes on June 27, 2010
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th June, 2010
If the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan were to be the litmus test, the United States’ “reset” of ties with Russia appears only selectively genuine. Kyrgyzstan is a perfect case for the two powers to agree to tactical cooperation, as there are significant common interests – and yet that is not happening.
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Posted by inthesenewtimes on June 22, 2010
22nd June, 2010
A veteran career diplomat of Brazil believes that the G-20, or the Group of Twenty, is evolving into a broader forum in terms of its agenda and that its representation is far wider than the UN Security Council.
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Posted by inthesenewtimes on June 18, 2010
Brazil’s decision, along with fellow non-permanent United Nations Security Council member Turkey, to vote against the latest United States-led efforts to impose harsher sanctions against Iran on June 9 aimed at stymieing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, reflects a sea-change in global geopolitics characterized by a decline in US power and the return of multi-polarity.
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