Sunday, January 11, 2015

F. William Engdahl — China’s Global Political Shift


The changing face of geopolitics and geostrategy in 2015.
No longer does China regard its relationship with the United Sates or even the EU as of highest priority. Rather they have defined a new grouping of priority countries in their carefully-deliberated geopolitical map. It includes Russia, as well as the entire BRICS rapidly-developing economies; it includes China’s Asian neighbors as well as Africa and other developing countries. 
To give a perspective, as recently as 2012 China’s foreign ptries in the world, including China); Multilateral Organizations (UN, APEC, ASEAN, IMF, World Bank etc.), and public diplomacy which determines which situations to become engaged in around the world. Clearly China has decided those priorities no longer work to her advantageolicy priorities were described in a general framework: Great Powers (principally the USA, EU, Japan, and Russia); Periphery (all countries bordering China); Developing Countries (all lower income countries). 
In his address to the meeting, President Xi highlighted a sub-category of developing countries: “Major Developing Powers (kuoda fazhanzhong de guojia). China will “expand cooperation and closely integrate our country’s development” with the designated Major Developing Powers, Xi declared. According to Chinese intellectuals, these are countries now deemed especially important partners “to support reform of the international order.” It includes Russia, Brazil, South Africa, India, Indonesia, and Mexico, that is, China’s BRICS partners, as well as Indonesia and Mexico. China has also ceased calling itself a “developing country,” indicating the changed self-image....
At present, what clearly emerges is China’s decision to make its relation with Putin’s Russia central to this new priority strategy. Despite decades of mistrust following the 1960 Sino-Soviet split, the two countries have begun a depth of cooperation unprecedented. The two great land powers of Eurasia are welding economic bonds that create the only potential “challenger” to future American global supremacy, as US foreign policy strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski described it in his The Grand Chessboard in 1997....

All of these moves, while fraught with danger, signal that China has deeply understood the Washington geopolitical game and the strategies of the neo-conservative US warhawks and, like Putin’s Russia, have little intention of bending their knee to what they see as a Washington global tyranny. The year 2015 shapes to be one of the most decisive and interesting in modern history.
New Eastern Outlook
China’s Global Political Shift
F. William Engdahl

See also Vladimir Odintsov, Washington is Going to Rely on NGOs in Central Asia at New Eastern Outlook
As a rule, the target of these “cover activities” carried out by NGOs is the struggle for energy markets, or the fight against political opponents, among which the White House highlights Russia, China and Iran. This much explains the latest developments in Hong Kong. Washington has effectively created a network of NGOs there that promote American interests under the pretext of promoting “democracy”, which operate by using social networks for spreading their agenda. This same pattern has been duplicated numerous times across the globe to attempt regime change in countries that the White House perceives as a threat to US dominance.
To sponsor these activities Washington has been allocating billions of dollars annually through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) – the organization responsible for countless coups around the world along with the CIA, on par with numerous private foundations. It’s no coincidence then that in Russia alone there were a total of 650 foreign NGOs back in 2012, that were receiving up to one billion dollars a year, with 20 million handed out by Western diplomatic missions directly. 
So, if we are to focus on the post-Soviet region, in recent years Western NGOs have been particularly active in the states of Central Asia, desperate in their strive to trigger “color revolutions” wherever possible. The avid interest of Washington towards this particular region is caused by a number of factors, including considerable deposits of natural resources along with the possibility to control the flow of those by taking a firm footing in the region, such as in destabilized Afghanistan. But the “key” factor behind Washington’s thinking is the ability to influence the geopolitical future and stability of the entire Asian continent and Russia. That is why the territory of the Central Asian region is considered by US think tanks an area of choice for projecting political influence on Russia and China, launching military campaigns against Afghanistan and potentially Iran. In this case, the United States seeks to break the Central Asian states away from Russian influence, by extensive use of international organizations and NGOs....
Recently, Russia banned such activity, to which the US reacted as the suppression of free expression, and China accused foreign interests of attempting to destabilize Hong Kong.

2 comments:

MRW said...

Engdahl's article deserves a full read. I think he's right. I also think that the world's hegemon in 2030 will be China, and that by that time, it will be the reserve currency.

I lay all this at the feet of the neoconservatives. They have managed in three decades to destroy everything that once gave America its strength. The decision to go after Islam as a replacement for the Cold War during the early 90s has produced consequences we can never recover from. China always kept tight control over its Muslim population. 1989 Tiennamen Square being the last show of that force; however, China's current alliances bring the majority of the Islamic world under its yoke (Indonesia, Africa, Russia, Iran, and its own western Muslim population), and not only under its yoke, but under its protection.

China remembers the Golden Age of Islam and what it produced because it was a part of it. I don't know of one single American who is able to quote what Islam brought to Europe starting in 800 AD. You only have to look at the Alhambra (884 AD) to see some of it. The Moors introduced culture, science, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, architecture, engineering, universities, and libraries to a dark, stupid Europe. When the kings and queens of Europe lived in single room barns with their animals and a single hole in the roof to let out the cooking smoke, the Moors had created Cordoba with paved roads and raised sidewalks, palaces, gardens, and water engineered from the surrounding mountains. That was in 900 AD. They lit the miles of trees along their boulevards with lamps every night. Christian monks and Jewish scribes made pilgrimages to Cordoba to bring back translations of Islamic science, and that's how the monk Copernicus learned that the earth revolved around the sun.

When the Christians rewrote history during the Inquisition, they wrote the Islamic contributions out of their texts. But the Chinese remember, and during the last 10 years their historians are bringing that to light.

This is an enlightening article, written in 1992 by Leon Hadar:
The "Green Peril":
Creating the Islamic Fundamentalist Threat
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-177.html

MRW said...

This is a fascinating talk, if you have the time. Thompson's talk is the first 30 minutes. He eviscerates the neoconservatives.As he describes in the Q&A that follows he was once one of them. The other guy Lindbergh is too tedious to listen to, imo.
Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea
Talk by Bradley Thompson
http://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/neoconservatism-obituary-idea

http://cdn.cato.org/archive-2011/cbf-03-16-11.mp4