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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 October 8, 2012
Allain Jules
8th October, 2012
Viva el Comandante !
Ils ont prié. Ils ont espéré. Ils ont menacé. Ils ont menti. Ils ont diffamé. Ils ont trituré le trait à outrance. Ils ont truandé la vérité au profit de l’immoralité qui leur sied à merveille. Ils ont accusé. Ils l’ont traité de tous les noms d’oiseaux. Mais, Hugo Chavez a été réélu avec brio, force et conviction d’un peuple qui s’est levé comme un seul homme pour dire oui à son Comandante. Le président socialiste du Venezuela Hugo Chavez, avait voté dans une école, Manuel Fajardo Palacio, dans le quartier populaire situé dans l’ouest de Caracas, où il avait été accueilli par une foule en délire. C’était un signe.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
2nd October, 2012
The citadel of the West in the post-Soviet space is falling — Georgia. A sad epilogue is being written to the epic story of the “color revolution”. The results of the Georgian parliamentary election on Monday have brought the stunning news that President Mikhail Saakashvilli has suffered a veritable rout. MS was brought to power by a carefully-plotted drama of “regime change” in 2003 known popularly in the western lexicon as the Rose Revolution.
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Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2012
Benjamin A.Shobert
Asia Times
21st September, 2012
Wanting Chinese investment is one thing; needing it is another. As the euro-zone crisis has deepened, one of the counter-intuitive outcomes thus far has been the increased investment by Chinese companies and the central government into European assets. The Rhodium Group, a New York-based research firm that tracks outbound Chinese investment into North America and Europe, published a study this month that showed how significant this increased investment has been.
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Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2012
Brendan O’Reilly
Asia Times
7th September, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to China highlighted the challenges inherent in the world’s most important bilateral relationship. There are now serious areas of contention between China and the United States. As China continues her rapid progress towards replacing the United States as the world’s largest economy, the entire dynamic of the global political system is experiencing momentous changes, often to the detriment of American influence.
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Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
5th September, 2012
It wouldn’t have been difficult at all for the Washington Post reporter to get the apt quotations to embellish his highly critical piece on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. What matters is the overall disenchantment of the American media with the PM. First, Time magazine; now WaPo.
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Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
3rd September, 2012
The meeting of the China-Eurasian Forum in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on Sunday makes an interesting move in regional cooperation on the part of Beijing. The presence of Premier Wen Jiabao at the meeting signified the high importance that Beijing attaches to this initiative. In sum, China is directly wooing its Eurasian allies with audacious offers of building a New Silk Road.
The initiative obviously aims at integrating Xinjiang with the western market. There was high-scale participation in the event by the Central Asian countries. Surprisingly, Russia wasn’t represented at the political level at the event.
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Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
1st September, 2012
Not a single Indian journalist, it seems, bothered to cover the meeting of the trade ministers of the 10 ASEAN countries and six partners (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand) in Cambodia on Thursday. The Indian press corps instead headed westward — to Tehran, which is probably more sexy than Siem Reap.
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Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2012
Kaveh Afrasiabi
Asia Times
1st September, 2012
Egypt and Iran this week took a giant step toward overcoming their diplomatic estrangement, brought together by the exigencies of a global movement and, even more so, a complex regional calculus that has a long history of being shaped by foreign powers.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2012
Brenda O’Reilly
Asia Times
31st August, 2012
President Mohammed Morsi’s historic trip to Beijing signifies a new direction for Egyptian foreign policy. The Muslim Brotherhood leader has sent a clear message by selecting China for his first state visit outside the Middle East. By forging closer ties with China, Morsi is warning the US government not to take Egyptian acquiescence for granted.
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Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2012
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
31st august, 2012
You’d better not mess with Muslim Brother Morsi.
Straight out of “communist” China – where he secured a red carpet welcome from President Hu Jintao and vice-president Xi Jinping – the Egyptian president lands in “evil” Iran as a true Arab world leader. [1]
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2012
Al-Ahram
28th August, 2012
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Tuesday in Beijing to discuss bilateral relations, with Morsi stressing that China is important for Egypt’s economic prosperity.
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