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Posts Tagged ‘St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF)’

How Singapore, Astana and St Petersburg preview a new world order

Posted by seumasach on June 6, 2018

Mahbubani states the obvious: “The era of Western domination is coming to an end.” Western elites, he adds, “should lift their sights from their domestic civil wars and focus on the larger global challenges. Instead, they are, in various ways, accelerating their irrelevance and disintegration.”

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

6th June, 2018

Ahead of the crucial Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Qingdao this coming weekend, three other recent events have offered clues on how the new world order is coming about.

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St. Petersburg in the heart of the action

Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2015

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

20th June, 2015

The dogs of western fear and sanctions bark, while the Eurasian caravan passes.

And no caravanserai could possibly compete with the 19th edition of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Thousands of global business leaders – including Europeans, but not Americans; after all, President Putin is “the new Hitler” – representing over 1,000 international companies/corporations, including the CEOs of BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Total, hit town in style.

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