Archive for the ‘Multipolar world’ Category
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 seumasach on December 3, 2013
“We think we have a lot to learn from China because of the success of your high-speed rail. I said to your president and prime minister yesterday that just as we welcome Chinese investment into nuclear power, into other infrastructure so there will be very open competition to provide the infrastructure for our network. We will welcome Chinese investment into that.”
3rd December, 2013
UK would welcome Chinese investment in HS2, says David Cameron
David Cameron has told the Chinese leadership that he would welcome investment by Beijing in Britain’s high-speed rail network.
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Posted in Multipolar world, UK economy | Tagged: UK-China strategic partnership | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 30, 2013
Britain’s recent policy of making enemies everywhere is giving way to a much more sane approach of building constructive and mutually beneficial relations. It is particularly gratifying to see that we have dropped our policy of destabilizing Russia, China, Syria and Iran. Topics to be discussed with China should include demilitarization, debt-write down and Chinese investment in UK economy
David Cameron sidelines Dalai Lama as he heads to China on major trade visit
Telegraph
29th November, 2013
The Prime Minister is taking a plane load of small business leaders to China in a bid to win deals for British business on the trip next week. It is his second visit to China since becoming Prime Minister in May 2010.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: UK foreign policy, UK-China strategic partnership | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2013
‘Don’t humiliate Ukraine’: President defiant over EU deal proposals
RT
27th November, 2013
Ukraine’s president voiced irritation at the European Union over its push to get his country sign a trade deal, calling the pressure ‘humiliating’. Kiev postponed the move citing vulnerability of its economy and triggering massive pro-EU protests.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Eurasian Economic Community, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 7, 2013
Caixin
6th November, 2013
(Beijing) – Canada’s western province of British Columbia said on November 5 it had completed the issuance of one-year offshore yuan-denominated bonds and raised 2.5 billion yuan.
This is the first time a foreign government has issued offshore yuan bonds. Mike de Jong, finance minister of Canada’s westernmost province, said officials had intended to raise only 500 million yuan but the bonds were largely oversubscribed.
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Posted in Currency Wars, Multipolar world | Tagged: Chinese soft power, yuan-denominated bonds | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 3, 2013
Asharg Al-Aswat
3rd November, 2013
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran and China will reach an agreement to unblock up to EUR 22 billion of Iranian assets, mainly from oil export revenues, as a result of Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani’s high-profile visit to China last week, Iranian media are reporting.
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Posted in Iran, Multipolar world | Tagged: China-Iran Cooperation, Chinese soft power, No sanctions against Iran! | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on November 2, 2013
Russia wants India, Pakistan to be in Shanghai Cooperation Organization – Lavrov
Voice of Russia
2nd October, 2013
Russia believes the Shanghai Cooperation Organization should satisfy an application from India to join the SCO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, reports VoR’s Polina Chernitsa.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Russian diplomacy, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2013
“The House of Saud also knows very well it is the solid anchor that keeps OPEC tied to the petrodollar system. Without Saudi Arabia the petrodollar is history.”
euronews
23rd October, 2013
Upset at president Barack Obama’s policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are threatening a rift with the US that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Chinese soft power, dollar collapse, saud | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2013
Europe’s role in a time of changes
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It gives me pleasure to speak in one of the most renowned centers of political science in Europe as part of my visit to Brussels made on the invitation of my friend and colleague Didier Reynders. Ever since Belgium was founded it had special relationship with Russia. I have no doubt that Belgians are well familiar with the biography of their first King Leopold who was related to the Russian Royal Family and as a general of the Russian Army fought in battles which took place in Europe in the early 19th century. The archives of the Russian Foreign Ministry include a letter by Alexander I to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg with the expression of his “special benevolence.”
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Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2013
F.William Engdahl
RT
21st October, 2013
In the very days when a deep split in the US Congress threatened a US government debt default, the gold price should normally jump through the roof, yet the opposite was the case. It is worth a closer look why.
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Posted in Currency Wars | Tagged: comex gold, gold manipulation, gold-backed yuan | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 14, 2013
Xinhua
13th October, 2013
BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — As U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world.
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