Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2013
Brendan O’Reilly
12th January, 2013
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
News of Chuck Hagel’s nomination to Secretary of Defense has been warmly received in China. Hagel, like most of the contemporary leadership of the American military, favors closer engagement with his counterparts in the People’s Liberation Army. China’s top leadership has interpreted Hagel’s recent public statements as reassuring signals of American cordiality.
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Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2012
Benjamin A.Shobert
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
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.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Chinese soft power, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2012
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 August 30, 2012
Brenda O’Reilly
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.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Chinese soft power, Egyptian diplomacy, Egyptian revolution, morsi agenda | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2012
8th July, 2012
Iran’s Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi says China has agreed to invest USD20 billion in developing north and south Azadegan and Yadavaran oil fields which will finally produce 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil.
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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 »
Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2012
The fact is, Turkey is very far out on a limb on Syria and, at this point, can only be grateful that the international community has not sawn it off.
Peter Lee
21st April, 2012
With a high-profile visit to China, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his campaign to increase the geopolitical clout of his country.
Posted in Multipolar world, Syria | Tagged: arab chinese coopration, Chinese diplomacy, Chinese soft power, neo-Ottoman imperialism | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on January 27, 2012
Ignatius Banda
28th January, 2012
BULAWAYO – From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds – the Chinese finger is now in virtually every Zimbabwean pie.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2012
Pepe Escobar
20th January, 2012
There’s no way to understand the larger-than-life United States-Iran psychodrama, the Western push for regime change in both Syria and Iran, and the trials and tribulations of the Arab Spring(s) – now mired in perpetual winter – without a close look at the fatal attraction between Washington and the GCC. [1]
Posted in Currency Wars | Tagged: Chinese soft power, GCC | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on January 9, 2012
David Gosset
10th January, 2012
The redistribution of global power modifies relations between great powers and invites them to reconsider their diplomatic priorities. While in the aftermath of World War II the future of Europe was proactively shaped by the United States, or more precisely, by a group of American “Wise Men”, China is now in a position to have an unprecedented impact on the European integration. As Beijing fully develops its immense potential and becomes the world’s biggest economy in the coming decade, its capacity to influence will certainly grow.
Posted in Battle for Europe, Multipolar world | Tagged: china-europe cooperation, Chinese diplomacy, Chinese soft power, David Gosset, Euro-China Forum, strategic partnership between China and Germany | Leave a Comment »
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