3rd January, 2011
.China is confident Spain will recover from its economic crisis and Beijing will buy Spanish public debt despite market fears of an Irish-style bailout, a top Chinese official said Monday.
Posts Tagged ‘Chinese soft power’
China backs Spain to emerge from crisis: Beijing
Posted by seumasach on January 6, 2011
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China BRICS up Africa
Posted by seumasach on January 3, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
4th January, 2011
There can be no two opinions that Beijing made a smart move. Its decision to anoint South Africa as a new member of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will be projected as based on economic grounds, but there are any number of other dimensions.
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China Expanding its Influence in Europe
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2010
Spiegel, a longstanding atlanticist outfit, delights in portraying China’s engagement with Europe as “political”. So, of course, is the campaign to undermine the euro. China’s deployment of soft power in Europe illustrates the shift of power away from the West: after all, Greece, Ireland at al could simply withdraw from Europe and throw themselves into the arms of the Americans, but they know that would be suicidal.
14th December, 2010
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Pipeline geopolitics- betting and bluffing in the new great game
Posted by seumasach on October 15, 2010
Pepe Escobar
15th October, 2010
Future historians may well agree that the 21st century Silk Road first opened for business on December 14, 2009. That was the day a crucial stretch of pipeline officially went into operation, linking the fabulously energy-rich state of Turkmenistan (via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) to Xinjiang province in China’s far west. Hyperbole did not deter the spectacularly named Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan’s president, from bragging: “This projecthas not only commercial or economic value. It is also political. China, through its wise and farsighted policy, has become one of the key guarantors of global security.”
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Beijing, Ottawa turn increasing asymptotic
Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2010
13th October, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, is the 40th forging anniversary of Sino-Canadian diplomatic ties, which is worthy of much celebration and expectation. Bilateral relations have gone through a splendid journey with eminent successes made over the past 40 years. In fact, the history of Sino-Canadian relations has already traversed over a century.
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A surprise boost for Euro from China
Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2010
F.William Engdahl
6th October, 2010
The embattled Euro has gotten a surprise boost from an unexpected quarter―China. The country with the world’s largest foreign exchange currency reserves, China, has pledged to support Greek debt as well as the Euro in what is clearly a geopolitical decision. In doing so, China has signaled it seeks to prevent the US financial warfare attack on Europe and to play the EU off against the USA in a geopolitical chess game of a fascinating dimension.
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China breaks the Himalayan barrier
Posted by seumasach on May 2, 2010
M.K.Bhadrakumar
1st May, 2010
Two veteran diplomats, one from China and the other an American, trudge their weary way from their respective capitals to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to witness as “observers” a gathering of eight leaders from South Asiaagonizing over the stasis of their 25-year old regional forum.
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Karzai’s China-Iran dalliance riles Obama
Posted by seumasach on March 30, 2010
M K Bhadrakumar
39th March,2010
Great moments in diplomatic timing are hard to distinguish when the practitioners are inscrutable entities. Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s visits to China and Iran within the week rang alarm bells in Washington which were heard in the Oval Office of the White House.
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Russia and China against the West?
Posted by seumasach on March 28, 2010
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China assesses its gold strategy
Posted by seumasach on March 11, 2010
Russell Hsiao
11th March, 2010
Chinese leaders convening in Beijing for the annual plenary session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) – China’s ceremonial legislature – this week will, among other things, hammer out a blueprint for the ascendancy of the country’s currency, the yuan (or renminbi).
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The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
James Petras
3rd January, 2010
Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building, illustrating the great divide in the world today. Expanding on an article recently published in the Financial Times, James Petras highlights the stark contrast between these two strategic visions, a woefully misguided one in the case of the US.
One Day’s Read of the Financial Times
Even a cursory read of a single issue of the Financial Times(December 28, 2009) illustrates the divergent strategies toward empire building. On page one, the lead article on the US is on its expanding military conflicts and its ‘war on terror’, entitled Obama Demands Review of Terror List. In contrast, there are two page-one articles on China, which describe China’s launching of the world’s fastest long-distance passenger train service and China’s decision to maintain its currency pegged to the US dollar as a mechanism to promote its robust export sector. While Obama turns the US focus on a fourth battle front (Yemen) in the ‘war on terror’ (after Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan), the Financial Timesreports on the same page that a South Korean consortium has won a $20.4 billion dollar contract to develop civilian nuclear power plants for the United Arab Emirates, beating its US and European competitors.
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