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 smeddum on June 5, 2009
JUNE 5, 2009,
China Willing to Buy Up to $50 Billion in IMF Bonds
WSJ
By ANDREW BATSON
BEIJING – China said Friday it is willing to buy as much as $50 billion in bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund, part of a deal made by the world’s major economies earlier this year to boost the resources the global agency has to combat financial crises. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on June 5, 2009
HAVANA, June 3 (Xinhua) — Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Wednesday slammed the Organization of American States (OAS) as a “U.S. Trojan horse,” despite the group’s decision to lift suspension against the island country.
Castro, who ruled Cuba from 1959 to 2006, ruled out Cuba’s potential return to the body.
The OAS was “complicit” in all the crimes committed against Cuba and against other Latin American nations by Washington, he said in an article published in Wednesday’s state-run media. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 4, 2009
28th May, 2009
Mientras Estados Unidos y Europa luchan para salir del pantano del endeudamiento, el desempleo y la deflación, la resistencia de los países BRIC a los embates de la crisis ha sido la grata sorpresa. Brasil, Rusia, India y China se han convertido en un factor de estabilidad y crecimiento logrando producir un desacople del eje Estados Unidos-Japón-Europa.
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Posted by seumasach on June 2, 2009
11st June, 2009
On the day US car giant General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection, Mr Geithner, said that mutual co-operation between China and the US was now fundamental to bringing the world out of the global financial crisis.
Posted in Financial crisis, Multipolar world | Tagged: China and US bond markets | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2009
Chinese soft power, as Michael Hudson indicates here, may be increasingly influencing US foreign policy in a trade off in which continued support for US treasuries is premised on the dismantling of the US empire. This is a scenario which we have been anticipating for some time:
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Posted by seumasach on May 29, 2009
MOSCOW, May 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is planning to build a strong military contingent in Central Asia within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) comparable to NATO forces in Europe, a Russian business daily said on Friday.
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Posted in Multipolar world, New Cold War | Tagged: Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Multipolar world, New Cold War, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by smeddum on May 29, 2009
Political Commentary on President of Slovenia’s lecture at University of Bosphorus in Istanbul
May 29, 12:34 AM ·
examiner.com
It is worth mentioning that Chavez, now thinks that China, with much supporting evidence, is leading the world.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-04/09/content_7660653.htm
During his first official visit to Turkey since being inaugurated as the President of the Republic of Slovenia in November 2007, Dr. Danilo Turk gave a lecture on May 21st at the University of Bosphorus in Istanbul entitled “Multilateralism in an Era of Uncertainty: The Role of the Institutions in the System of the United Nations.”
Having read his speech, one of the things that stuck out to me was his observation that big economic powers like China, India and others compete and that they are relatively peaceful in the way that they compete. He suggests that happiness is the appropriate response to competition being of a peaceful nature in today’s world. He continues by asking the question how does the world organize for that competition? From his perspective, he sees this remaining as an open question and he observes that at a recent meeting of the group of G20 in London he saw a pattern of competitiveness mixed with cooperativeness. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on May 28, 2009
May 29, 2009
China says ‘no thanks’ to G-2
Asiatimes
By Jian Junbo
SHANGHAI – At the Sino-European Union (EU) summit in Prague last week, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao rejected the concept of a Group of Two (G-2) comprising China and the United States, saying “it is totally ungrounded and wrong to talk about the dominance of two countries in international affairs”. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: China | Leave a Comment »
Posted by smeddum on May 27, 2009
Brazil and Neighbors Are the Ones Shaping Up Any New US-Latin America Relations
Written by Toni Solo
Sunday, 24 May 2009
Brazzilmag
Global economic disruption makes it seem events are overtaking analysis faster than people can keep up. In May it was reported that China is now Brazil’s main trading partner, displacing the US after more than 75 years. Ever since the debacle at the Mar del Plata summit in 2005 of President Bush’s continent-wide free trade plan, the US has been unable to defend its formerly dominant trade position in Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2009
PressTV
25th May, 2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemns as ‘provocative’ a recent report by a German magazine, which attempts to link Hezbollah with Hariri’s death. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Hariri assasination, Russian diplomacy, Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
26th May, 2009
The strange lineup of the member countries of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for or against Sri Lanka at the special session of the body scheduled to take place in Geneva on Tuesday underscores the maritime Great Game unfolding in the Indian Ocean.
Posted in Multipolar world, Uncategorized | Tagged: NATO v. SCO, SCO, Sri Lanka | Leave a Comment »
In These New Times 