Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2009
Pepe Escobar
24th December, 2009
For all the rhapsodies on the advent of the New Silk Road, it may have come into effect for good last week, when China and Central Asia got together to open a crucial Pipelineistan node linking Turkmenistan to China’s Xinjiang.
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Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
24th December, 2009
Nursultan Nazarbayev has a way of drawing lines in the sand. The president of Kazakhstan recently told global oil and metal majors that new laws would allow only those foreign investors that cooperate with his industrialization program to tap his nation’s mineral resources.
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Posted by seumasach on October 17, 2009
14th October, 2009
China will carry out the announced ten billion U.S. dollars of loans for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and continue to send trade and investment delegations to other members, said Premier Wen Jiabao Wednesday.
Wen also raised a seven-point proposal to enhance regional cooperation at the eighth prime ministers’ meeting of the SCO member states in Beijing.
First, to deepen financial and monetary cooperation. China will enhance the exchanges of financial and monetary policies and improve the trade settlement payment system to promote international monetary system reform, to enhance the diversification and rationalization of the international system and to jointly safeguard financial stability.
Second, to promote the security and facilitation of trade and investment. China will sign the Agreement on Encouragement and Reciprocal protection of Investments, and work out the Agreement on Facilitation of International Road Transport as soon as possible. The government will formulate the Plan on Road Network Development Coordination and strengthen the management on port cooperation, as well as to solve the food security problems of the member states.
Third, to accelerate the implementation of large economic and technological cooperation projects. China will mainly carry out the construction of infrastructures including roads and railways, to explore new clean energies and develop new economic growth points. It will give full play to industrial councils and bank consortium to create better conditions for middle and small industries.
Fourth, to expand channels of cooperation. China will deepen the reform in agriculture cooperation, guarantee food security and establish a promoting system for boarder agricultural trades. It will enhance technological cooperation, transformation and modernization of traditional industries, the capacity of creativity and industrialization of scientific results.
Fifth, China will carry out the announced ten billion U.S. dollars of loans for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and continue to send trade and investment delegations to other members, to fight trade and investment protectionism and motivate trades and development of the members.
Sixth, to promote cultural exchanges, and the cooperation on health, education, disaster relief and human resources. China will support the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) with funds to join in the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
Seventh, to deepen the cooperation on security. China will intensify the fight against the three forces and steadily support each other on sovereignty, security and development.
The SCO, established in 2001, comprises China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Iran are observers of the group.
The eighth prime ministers’ meeting was chaired by Premier Wen and attended by his counterparts from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as representatives from the SCO observer nations and Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2009
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) — China has called on the United States to reduce, and gradually put an end to air and sea military surveillance and survey operations to avoid naval confrontations.
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Posted by seumasach on August 1, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
31st July, 2009
Like the star gazers who last week watched the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, diplomatic observers had a field day watching the penumbra of big power politics involving the United States, Russia and China, which constitutes one of the crucial phenomena of 21st-century world politics.
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Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
18th July, 2009
The Central Asian question is no more the same as it was in the 1990s. No one speculates anymore that it was inevitable that the region would descend into anarchy. However, the problems endemic to a critical period of state formation linger. The transition economies were just about switching gear when the global economic crisis struck. Growth slackened. Foreign investment dwindled. Commodity prices crashed.
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Posted by seumasach on June 8, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
6th June
When the Kremlin proposed Khabarovsk as a possible venue for the European Union-Russia summit meeting of May 21-22, Vaclav Klaus, Czech president who holds the revolving EU presidency, reportedly warmed up to the idea.
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Posted by seumasach on June 5, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
3rd June, 2009
Economic news remains focused on banks and housing, while the threat mounts to the US dollar from massive federal budget deficits in fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
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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 24, 2009
Jim Willie
21st May, 2009
Numerous events have taken place of global importance. Alone, each story seems of some significance. Together, they paint a mosaic of extreme change in a very dangerous sequence of events that fit together. The greater aggregate story is that a tremendous paradigm shift is underway, with early steps and major moves by global players in clear view. The Western analysts and pundits and mavens are missing it. A PARADIGM SHIFT HAS BEGUN, WITH BANKING POWER SHIFTING TO THE CREDITOR NATIONS AS THE USDOLLAR IS SUPPLANTED, MADE POSSIBLE BY SEVERAL NEW INSTITUTIONAL PILLARS AS WELL AS NEWLY FORGED ALLIANCES. The consequences are significant and will change the face of global banking and commerce. The Hat Trick Letter has described the various steps and their importance all along the way. Much more detail is provided for each major point to follow in the HTLetter reports. Some in the United States and England believe that a return to normalcy comes. They are wrong by 180 degrees. The G20 Meeting of finance ministers and heads of state was the warning. The message from that meeting in London has been long forgotten, a call made in my public article immediately after its conclusion. This article provides an outline of events that have occurred only in the last few weeks, as the pace is accelerating for transformation that begins at the foundation. Piece it all together, use some mental power, sprinkle with only a little imagination, connect some dots easily, and take a look at the global picture that is emerging. Yesterday came the crowning blow, as the United Arab Emirates rejected the Saudis in the Gulf monetary union. My belief is that the rising power in the UAE wants Russia instead of the Saudis, who are tied at the US hip.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2009
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With his trip to the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago at the end of this week, President Barack Obama is attempting to put a new face on American imperialism’s pursuit of its strategic interests in Latin America, a region where the US once asserted unchallenged hegemony. These summits were first launched in 1994 by the Clinton administration with a meeting in Miami. Their principal purpose over the next decade was to further Washington’s agenda of establishing a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) based on US domination and “free-market” capitalism. This meant the scrapping of all barriers to foreign capitalist investment, deregulation of financial markets and the wholesale privatization of public enterprises and basic services. Read the rest of this entry » |
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