Shastri Ramachandaran
12th June, 2012
The India-US Strategic Dialogue begins in Washington today, but the road to the meeting hasn’t been easy.
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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.
India eschews linchpin role in US strategy to ‘rebalance’ Asia
Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2012
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Pakistan gets a cuddle and a hug
Posted by seumasach on June 4, 2012
Russia is gearing up to play an effective role in world affairs. Its assertive stance on Syria and Iran can be expected to extend to Pakistan and Central Asia. Russia kept its participation over the NATO summit on a low-key and saw to it that none of the Central Asian leaders who were invited – from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan – attended either. Meanwhile, Moscow also hosted a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Putin is undertaking visits to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan during the week ahead and is virtually launching his Eurasian project.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
2nd June, 2012
The back-to-back visits to Pakistan this week by China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and the Russian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, are rich in political symbolism and strategic content.
Posted in Afghanistan, Multipolar world | Tagged: Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Russian diplomacy, the Eurasian Union | Leave a Comment »
China-Japan currency deal ushers in a new era
Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2012
30th May, 2012
China and Japan will start direct trading of their currencies on Friday in a move to boost trade ties between Asia’s two biggest economies.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: china-Japan currency agreement, rising yuan, yuan-denominated bonds | Leave a Comment »
Euro-BRICS Partnership : The path to the world after the crisis
Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2012
MAP6-Euro-BRICS special! Euro-BRICS Partnership : The path to the world after the crisis
Franck Biancheri
May, 2012
A Euro-BRICS special issue of MAP in partnership with Moscow’s MGIMO University
Download MAP6-Euro-BRICS special (free)
With this special MAP issue devoted to future Euro-BRICS co-operation, LEAP/E2020 continues its exploration of the path which leads to the world after the crisis. In this case, with the Euro-BRICS partnership it’s a question of anticipating the processes which will make it possible to build twenty first century governance and allow a peaceful rebalancing of relations between the planet’s key powers.
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El papel geoestratégico de Brasil en la multipolaridad
Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2012
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
22rd January, 2012
El México neoliberal panista causó un enorme daño al haberse clavado insensatamente, sin brújula geoestratégica, a la unipolaridad y, peor aún, a la estadunización de su claudicante política exterior (ver Bajo la Lupa, 18/1/12).
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Quiproquo : la vente de banques US à la Chine et la réévaluation du yuan
Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2012
Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
25th May, 2012
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
Le quatrième rencontre pour le « Dialogue Stratégique et Économique entre les États-Unis et la Chine » [1] vient de se tenir à Pékin, les 3 et 4 mai 2012. C’est le sommet bilatéral le plus important au monde, et il en ressort un certain nombre de résultats significatifs, selon China Economic Net [2], ce qui manifeste une détente remarquable, après une étape de brutale détérioration des relations entre les deux puissances.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: China US reations, Chinese soft power, dollar collapse, End of empire, Multipolar world, Obama agenda, strategic partnership between US and China | Leave a Comment »
All change in France … China takes on new importance
Posted by seumasach on May 15, 2012
David Gosset
16th May, 2012
Since economic, political and strategic relations between Europe and China are not commensurate with their mutual appreciation and reciprocal attraction, a formidable potential for synergy between the two edges of the continent is still to be unleashed.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: china-europe cooperation, Euro-China Forum, EuroBrics, hollande agenda | Leave a Comment »
The eleven orders of Putin
Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2012
Russia’s key partners for cooperation will be countries and organizations in the CIS. With this in mind, Putin wants to boost the efficacy of the Union State with Belarus, integration between Europe and Asia through the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space, and hopes to establish the Eurasian Economic Community by January 1, 2015.
The Eleven Orders of Putin: Earmarks for Russia’s development in the next six years
8th May, 2012
President Vladimir Putin has announced 11 Executive Orders within hours of his inauguration. These orders set Russia’s strategic aims in foreign, domestic, social and military policy.
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Russia tightens Ukraine bonds
Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2012
Not so long ago Ukraine was one of the main focuses of US foreign policy. But the empire is ebbing away and overstretch leads them to neglect crucial frontier outposts.
Taras Kuzio
9th May, 2012
The Ukrainian government is negotiating the issue of rouble-denominated government bonds, making the country no longer reliant on International Monetary Fund assistance. Ukraine’s 2010 IMF assistance package of US$15.6 billion was suspended in March 2011 because of the country’s refusal to continue with IMF reforms, in particular raising household utility prices to reduce subsidies to the state gas company Naftohaz Ukrainy. This confirms what the Nikolai Azarov government has been discussing since summer 2011.
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Eurasian economic boom and geopolitics: China’s land bridge to Europe: The China-Turkey high speed railway
Posted by seumasach on May 5, 2012
F.William Engdahl
27th April, 2012
The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps binding the vast economic space are being constructed with a number of little-publicized rail links connecting China, Russia, Kazakhstan and parts of Western Europe. It is becoming clear to more people in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Eurasia including China and Russia that their natural tendency to build these markets faces only one major obstacle: NATO and the US Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance obsession. Rail infrastructure is a major key to building vast new economic markets across Eurasia.
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Draw at Doha
Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2012
Vijay Prashad
1st May, 2012
Last Thursday. the delegates at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) came to the closing ceremony. It was delayed by a few hours because the final document needed to be translated. A short delay was acceptable. Far worse would have been deadlock on the final declaration. It would have delivered a victory to those who want to see UNCTAD’s ability to continue doing its work curtailed.
Posted in Financial crisis, Multipolar world | Tagged: BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), global north v. global south, global south, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) | Leave a Comment »
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