Eurasia as We Knew it is Dead - Pepe Escobar
Eurasia as We Knew it is Deadby PEPE ESCOBAR
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/21/eurasia-as-we-knew-it-is-dead/
Move over, Cold War 2.0. The real story, now and for the foreseeable future, in its myriad declinations, and of course, ruling out too many bumps in the road, is a new, integrated Eurasia forging ahead.
Chinas immensely ambitious New Silk Road project will keep intersecting with the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union (EEC). And that will be the day when the EU wakes up and finds a booming trade/commerce axis stretching from St. Petersburg to Shanghai. Its always pertinent to remember that Vladimir Putin sold a similar, and even more encompassing, vision in Germany a few years ago stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
It will take time and troubled times. But Eurasias radical face lift is inexorable. This implies an exceptionalist dream the U.S. as Eurasia hegemon, something that still looked feasible at the turn of the millennium fast dissolving right before anyones eyes.
Russia Pivots East, China Pivots West
A few sound minds in the U.S. remain essential as they fully deconstruct the negatives, pointing to the dangers of Cold War 2.0. The Carnegie Moscow Centers Dmitri Trenin, meanwhile, is more concerned with the positives, proposing a road map for Eurasian convergence.
The Russia-China strategic partnership from energy trade to defense and infrastructure development will only solidify, as Russia pivots East and China pivots West. Geopolitically, this does not mean a Moscow subordinated to Beijing, but a rising symbiotic relationship, painstakingly developed in multiple stages.
The BRICs that dirty word in Washington already have way more global appeal, and as much influence as the outdated G-7. The BRIC New Development Bank, ready to start before the end of 2015, is a key alternative to G7-controlled mechanisms and the IMF.
Full read here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/21/eurasia-as-we-knew-it-is-dead/
KT2000
(20,586 posts)that American business can get shower curtains for 20 cents a piece from China and sell them for $20 here!?! People get rich doing that.
China has been working on the long game - cornering markets in essential resources, establishing trade agreements with other continents and the US is going orgasmic over the huge markup that can be made on outsourcing manufactured goods - the short game. Sad really.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)asking for a friend
newthinking
(3,982 posts)for you to handle. But can you cool the personal insult / stereotyping bullshit?
Do you have anything to say about the analysis in the OP?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Guess it's all a matter of who's doing the talking and who's doing the listening...
I have noticed your conspicuous absence from *my* Russia/Ukraine stories...A pity, since it seems to be a topic you're very passionate about...