Posts Tagged ‘russia-china strategic partnership’
Posted by seumasach on July 8, 2017
Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
8th July, 2017
From the start, the “positive chemistry” in the Mother of All Sit-Downs was a given. The format – with only the four principals, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and two translators – prevented any leaks. What was originally scheduled for 35 minutes went on for 2 hours and 16 minutes, and not even an impromptu appearance by First Lady Melania Trump – they were late for the Elphillarmonie pomp and circumstance – managed to stop the flow.
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Posted in Global peace process, Multipolar world | Tagged: detente with Russia, End Russia sanctions!, russia-china strategic partnership | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2015
Andrew Korybo
Russia Insider
16th January, 2015
China is extending its Silk Road into the Balkans, with a planned project to construct a railroad from the Greek port of Piraeus all the way to Budapest. This would connect Beijing’s primary port of entrance for its commercial goods to one of Central Europe’s main transport conduits, thereby pushing the Silk Road into the heart of Europe and throughout the rest of the continent. As with everything else that China is doing in the world today, it must not be discounted that Russia can also reap some resultant benefits from this as part of the global Russian-Chinese Strategic Partnership, which in this case, would allow for the resurrection of the South Stream project that all of its European partners have been begging for since its cancellation.
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Posted in Battle for Europe | Tagged: Chinese soft power, End of empire, Multipolar world, russia-china strategic partnership, Russian diplomacy, South Stream | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2014
New World Order at Stake of US-Russia Geopolitical Competition – Political Analyst
RIANovosti
1st August, 2014
The confrontation between Moscow and Washington over the Ukrainian internal strife will doubtlessly shift the global balance of power, believes Dmitri Trenin, a well-known Russian political scientist, author, and the Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: China- Russia ties, German Russian relations, russia-china strategic partnership, Russian-US relations | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2014
But, as well as a Eurasian revolution it must force a European revolution. Kerry latest speech imposes impossible demands on Europe: a rise in NATO spending per member and the opening of the European market to GM crops and fracking. Popular protests against austerity are going to have to focus on these issues, all the more so since it is now clear, in the light of the Ukraine fiasco, that the European leadership is compromised and unable to lead Europe towards independent policy.
Francesco Sisci
Asia Times
30th April, 2014
BEIJING – It has not happened yet, but expectations are already enormous. A massive strategic and economic shift is expected to result from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s to China in May.
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Posted in Battle for Europe | Tagged: Asian pivot, BRICS(Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), eurasian project, russia-china strategic partnership, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), strategic partnership between US and China | Leave a Comment »
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