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US tosses new challenge to China in Asia

26 June 2012
Thailand is soon likely to be on the list of the Asia-Pacific countries where US troops will be based on a permanent basis. Right now, the Pentagon is mulling its return to the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield which was a military base for the USAF B-52 bombers during the Vietnam War in the early 1970s to launch airstrikes on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Located 40 kilometers from the Thai resort of Pattaya, U-Tapao also serves as an international civil airport which mainly receives tourist (...)

New U.S. destroyer is sinking the budget

20 June 2012
The U.S. is currently building the "the most sophisticated warship in history", the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class destroyer, already dubbed "the invisible silver bullet." This "stealth" destroyer would be able to sail along the coast in shallow waters, and wipe out the enemy by using its highly advanced electromagnetic "railgun", while remaining undetected by the adversary’s radars.
The ship’s characteristics in shallow water would make it particularly suited to the shores and the numerous sea (...)

Venezuela’s cooperation with Big Sister China

by Olivia Kroth

13 June 2012
China’s growing economic role in Venezuela is a direct result of Hugo Chávez’s systematic drive to supplant U.S. influence over his country, a trend that is spreading throughout Latin America. This staggering compendium of Sino-Venezuela co-operation projects, drawn up by Pravda journalist Olivia Kroth, is emblematic of the shift in the center of gravity towards China occurring in a region that Washington has traditionally regarded as its own backyard and which is now hanging the U.S. out to dry.

China’s Land Bridge to Turkey creates new Eurasian Geopolitical Potentials

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 23 April 2012
The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom has been further solidified following recent talks between Turkish and Chinese leaders. The first steps are being constructed with a number of little-publicized rail links envisioned to connect China and parts of Western Europe. It is increasingly clear to all nations concerned, especially China and Russia, that their natural tendency to develop these markets faces only one major hurdle: NATO and the US Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance obsession. According to Engdahl, rail infrastructure is a major geopolitical tool for obviating that obstacle.

WAR OVER GAS

Struggle over the Middle East: Gas Ranks First

by Imad Fawzi Shueibi

Damascus (Syria) | 17 April 2012
The media and military attack against Syria is directly related to the global competition for energy, as explained by Professor Imad Shuebi in this masterful article. At a time when the euro area threatens to collapse, where an acute economic crisis has led the U.S. into a debt of up to 14 940 billion, and where their influence is dwindling in the face of the emerging BRICS powers, it becomes clear that the key to economic success and political domination lies mainly in the control of the energy source of the century: gas. It is because she is at the heart of the most colossal gas reserves in the world that Syria is being targeted. The wars of the last century were fought for oil, but a new era has dawned, that of wars for gas.

THE ART OF WAR

Iran, the gas pipeline battle

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 27 March 2012
Two major pipeline projects are at present vying to secure future energy supplies to Pakistan, India and China. One originates in Iran while the second one draws on reserves in Turkmenistan. The latter is promoted by an Israeli group and is supported by Secretary of State Clinton. According to Dinucci, an attack against Iran could cripple the Iranian project, which is currently ahead of the game. The question remains whether US leaders are still really in line with this strategy, as hinted in recent statements by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

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China’s stance on Syria: ’A matter of principle’

20 March 2012
Moscow and Beijing have been firmly opposing intervention in Syria, stressing the need for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Middle East expert He Wenping says this is matter of principle.
He Wenping, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, insists that Russia and China are defending the principle of state sovereignty. “Any regime change should be undertaken by the people in that country,” she told RT.
In addition to Russia, China is also trying to protect its geopolitical interests (...)

The Sino-Russian Alliance: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

16 March 2012
Famously predicted by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the rapprochement between Russia and China can be traced back several years. In this article, first published in 2007, Nazemroaya analyses the successive stages of a historical process consistently driven by the same anti-hegemonic principles that underpinned the two countries’ common stance on Syria at the UNSC. Today, the alliance between the two Eurasian giants is Washington’s worst nightmare come true, of which, ironically, the United States may well be the unintentional architect.

Saying no to gunboat diplomacy

by Li Qingsi

Beijing (China) | 23 February 2012
The Chinese veto at the Security Council was not a passing fancy influenced by Russia, but the fruit of a long and painful experience. It was primarily motivated by the desire to uphold the norms of international law. Professor Li Qingsi places this concern in its immediate historical context (regime changes orchestrated in North Africa) and within a longer-term perspective (China’s occupation by the West and the thorny Sino-US relations).

West’s pressure pushed China, Russia together

Beijing (China) | 23 February 2012
According to Major General Luo Yuan, member of the Academy of Military Sciences of the People’s Republic of China, the US ultimatum to Syria has backfired on Washington. He has urged Moscow and Beijing to join forces to ward off any further imperial expansion by the United States.

China becomes German’s first trading partner

8 February 2012
The German Chancellor has just completed her fifth trip to China since she took office. During her three-day visit, Angela Merkel was able to meet with President Hu Jintao and Wu Bangguo, current Chairman and Party secretary of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. In addition, she held meetings with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
She visited Guangzhou, capital of the southern province of Guangdong, where she attended, together with the Chinese Prime Minister, a trade (...)

DOUBLE VETO BANS IMPERIAL WAR AGAINST SYRIA

The GCC and NATO lose their leadership

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 5 February 2012
Contrary to her position at the time of the attack on Iraq, in the case of Syria France failed to defend the principles of international law, rallying instead the imperial camp and its lies. Together with the United Kingdom and the United States, she has suffered a diplomatic defeat of historic proportions, while Russia and China have become the champions of the sovereignty of peoples and peace. The new international balance of power is not only a consequence of the United States’ military decline, it is also a penalty for their falling prestige. Ultimately, Western powers have lost the leadership they enjoyed throughout the twentieth century, having forsaken all legitimacy by betraying their own values.

Russia and China in the Balance of the Middle East: Syria and other countries

by Imad Fawzi Shueibi

Damascus (Syria) | 27 January 2012
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has been searching for a new geopolitical balance. All the various models have failed, starting with the unipolar world order of the New American Century. What emerges is not the result of an ideology, but a tectonic shift in the global balance of power, observes geopolitician Imad Fawzi Shueib. The double Russian and Chinese veto related to the Syrian crisis marks the dawn of this new world configuration, which is still groping to find its own operating rules in a complete break with past models.

Obama’s strategic pivot: Military deglobalization and containment of China

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Mexico City (Mexico) | 17 January 2012
Mexican political analyst Alfredo Jalife-Rahme analyzes the recent Pentagon and White House strategic and budgetary options. While an extremist fringe continues to nurture the unaffordable dream of US domination over the entire globe, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in line with the policy initiated by Robert Gates, recognize the structural decline of U.S. power. Widening the distance from the Bush-Cheney era, they are re-channeling funds towards more realistic goals and gradually re-allocating resources to Asia and China.

Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontation on the Frontiers of China and Russia

by James Petras

8 December 2011
After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, failing to buttress long-standing clients in Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia and witnessing the disintegration of puppet regimes in Somalia and South Sudan, the Obama regime has learned nothing: Instead he has turned toward greater military confrontation with global powers, namely Russia and China. Obama has adopted a provocative offensive military strategy right on the frontiers of both China and Russia.

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