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 June 27, 2013
M.K.Bhadrakumar
26th June, 2013
The geopolitics of Central Asia has begun shifting in anticipation of the NATO forces ending their combat role as well as their pullout from Afghanistan and the proposed establishment of the nine American military bases in that country. Kyrgyzstan today gave the final touch to its strategic decision to demand that the US should vacate the Manas military base near the capital Bishkek by July 11, 2014.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
7th June, 2013
New Delhi, June 7: In order to improve the prospects for peace in Syria, Russian foreign policy experts have called for India to take part in the Geneva II peace conference.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
Bill Mundell
6th June, 2013
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
When Chinese President Xi Jinping meets President Obama tomorrow at Sunnylands, California, the agenda will likely be populated with the same issues that have dogged the relationship for years – currency values, North Korea, protection of intellectual property, human rights – and some newer ones that have heated up recently, such as cyber-security and conflict in the South China Sea.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
“The US needs to rebuild its infrastructure, which is putting a huge brake on its development; and China needs to hedge its US investments from inflation or devaluation. Then a part of the trillions of dollars of Chinese foreign reserves could be turned into minority stakes in US infrastructure.”
Francesco Sisci
11th June, 2013
BEIJING – Openings over the environment, closer collaboration on North Korea, and no mention of the prickly issue of human rights: at the weekend summit between US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the US seemed to pick up where ties got derailed – that is, in Copenhagen in December 2009, when Obama and then prime minister Wen Jiabao failed to reach an agreement on the environment. Xi reciprocated by demanding respect for the new status of his country and reopening the sensitive and important military dialogue.
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Posted by seumasach on June 3, 2013
Chinmaya R. Gharekhan( former Indian Ambassador to the United Nations, was until recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Special Envoy for West Asia)
4th June, 2013
Secretary John Kerry has demonstrated courage and wisdom in abandoning his predecessor’s insistence on President Bashar al-Assad’s departure as a precondition to talks for a political solution to the Syrian crisis, thereby bringing the American position closer to that of Russia and many others, including India. He has to go a step further and drop objection to Iran’s participation in the Geneva II conference. Iran has more than convincingly established its potential to prolong the conflict; it should be given an opportunity to play a constructive role.
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Posted by seumasach on June 3, 2013
Pepe Escobar
31st May, 2013
This is a version of a paper presented this week at the annual conference of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.
SINGAPORE – Ask Western elites – oh, those were the days, in the 17th century, when the rise of European sea powers led to the collapse of the caravan trade and the end of the Silk Road as Europe found a cheaper – and safer – way of trading between East and West.
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Posted by seumasach on May 20, 2013
Chinese Creating New Auto Niche Within Detroit
12th May, 2013
DETROIT — Dozens of companies from China are putting down roots in Detroit, part of the country’s steady push into the American auto industry.
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Posted by seumasach on May 4, 2013
Turkey becomes partner of China, Russia-led security bloc
26th April, 2013
ALMATY (Reuters) – NATO member Turkey signed up on Friday to became a “dialogue partner” of a security bloc dominated by China and Russia, and declared that its destiny is in Asia.
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Posted by seumasach on May 1, 2013
Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
16th April, 2013
April 18 Note: At the online retailer Gainesville coins, and everywhere else, the increased premiums above the spot price of gold and silver indicate that the demand for bullion possession, that is, the demand for the metal itself, is greater than the price established in the paper market by manipulation.
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Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2013
A Multi-billion Treasure Trove in Lower Manhattan
Michel Chossudovsky
26th April, 2013
Germany is repatriating its gold reserves from the New York Federal Reserve. This decision has created a frenzy in the gold market. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Posted by seumasach on April 27, 2013
Brendan O’Reilly
26th April, 2013
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, visited Beijing for high-level talks with his Chinese counterparts at a time pressures are mounting between the two powers, as nuclear threats multiply on the Korean Peninsula, and as the two powers trade accusations of exacerbating tensions in Asia.
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