Why China and the US need to talk.

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China and the US need to talk.

THE NEW NEUTRALITY in a Multipolar World

Quo Vadis Europa?

Will America Never Go To War Over Ukraine ?

BRICS cable planned

Russia plans to reopen the Cold War Soviet-age SIGINT facility in Cuba,

SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE FINANCIAL WARFARE.

Ukraine and the grand chessboard

CHINAS STRATEGIC SHIFT

BRICS strengthen the global financial safety net.

“Rio Consensus” a model for global economic governance in the 21st century

BRICS countries to challenge unipolar world order

China is not poised to speed across the Pacific to threaten America.

China’s Rise = Remilitarizing Japan? | The Diplomat

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Die „Korrektur der globalen Ungleichgewichte“.

The Unbalanced Economic Relationship of the United States and China

Is it this what may happen in future?

„Land mit blauem Himmel und klarem Wasser“

World risks era of slow growth, high unemployment.

The End of the New World Order

There’s the fate of the petrodollar to consider.

The Birth of a Eurasian Century

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China and the US need to talk.

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Tensions will rise in Asia until China and the U.S. talk

The Japan Times ‎ Jul 7, 2014  by Yoon Young-Kwan  

A vast revolution in military affairs is taking place across East Asia. The latest signs are

• Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purge of Gen Xu Caihou on charges of corruption, and
• Japan’s “reinterpretation” of Article 9 of its constitution to permit the country to provide military aid to its allies.(Article 9 of the Constitution says the Japanese people “forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”)

Despite the rising regional tensions that inspired these moves, China’s relations with its neighbours and the United States are not fated to lead to direct confrontation. But the relentless march of new initiatives to meet the perceived “China threat” will require the region’s political leaders, including the Chinese…

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THE NEW NEUTRALITY in a Multipolar World

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Europe in a Multipolar World – Project Syndicate

Jun 9, 2014 

ByVolker Perthes

One aspect of the Ukraine crisis that both Russia and the West need to understand is that the rest of the world appears to be relatively unconcerned about it. Though the West, along with Japan, may view the crisis as a challenge to the global order, most other states do not feel threatened by Russia’s annexation of Crimea or designs it may have elsewhere in Ukraine.

Instead, many view this crisis as being largely about Europe’s inability to resolve its own regional disputes – though a successful outcome could bolster Europe’s global influence as a peacemaker… As emerging powers’ reactions to the Ukraine crisis demonstrate, world politics is no longer defined by what happens in Europe, even when a major conflict is brewing there.

The international system has become so multi-polar that non-European states can now…

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Will America Never Go To War Over Ukraine ?

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7 Reasons Why America Will Never Go To War Over Ukraine

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Mar 5, 2014 

By Michael Peck,    

America is the mightiest military power in the world. And that fact means absolutely nothing for the Ukraine crisis… The U.S. may threaten to impose economic sanctions, but here is why America will never smack Russia with a big stick:

• Russiais a nuclear superpower. Russia has an estimated 4,500 active nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists…  

Status of World Nuclear Forces 2014 | Federation Of American …
Country	Operational Strategic	Operational Nonstrategic	Reserve/ Nondeployed	Military Stockpile	Total Inventory
Russia	1,600		2,700	4,300	8,000
United States	1,920	184	2,661	4,765	7,315
France	290	n.a.	?	300	300
China	0	?	250	250	250
United Kingdom	160	n.a.	65	225	225
Israel	0	n.a.	80	80	80
Pakistan	0	n.a.	100-120	100-120	100-120
India	0	n.a.

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Russia plans to reopen the Cold War Soviet-age SIGINT facility in Cuba,

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Putin denies reopening of US-targeting listening post in Cuba

RT

July 17, 2014    

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied media reports that Russia was planning to reopen the Soviet-age SIGINT facility in Lourdes, Cuba, once was largest foreign listening post of its kind… When operational, the facility was manned by thousands of military and intelligence personnel, whose task was to intercept signals coming from and to the US territory and to provide communication for Russian vessels in the western hemisphere…

The facility in Lourdes, a suburb of Havana located just 250km from continental USA, was opened in 1967. At the peak of the cold war it was the largest signal intelligence center Moscow operated in a foreign nation, with 3,000 personnel manning it. From the base Russia could intercept communications in most part of the US including the classified exchanges between space facilities in Florida and American spacecraft…

Following the…

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U.S. SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE FINANCIAL WARFARE.

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Announcement of Treasury Sanctions on Entities Within the …

U.S. Department of the Treasury

7/16/2014

In response to Russia’s continued attempts to destabilize eastern Ukraine and its ongoing occupation of Crimea, the U.S. Department of the Treasury today imposed a broad-based package of sanctions on entities in the financial services, energy, and arms or related materiel sectors of Russia, and on those undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty or misappropriating Ukrainian property. 

 More specifically: Treasury imposed sanctions that prohibit U.S. persons from providing new financing to two major Russian financial institutions (Gazprombank OAO and VEB) and two Russian energy firms (OAO Novatek and Rosneft), limiting their access to  U.S. capital markets; Treasury designated eight Russian arms firms, which are responsible for the production of a range of materiel that includes small arms, mortar shells, and tanks…

By imposing sanctions on entities within the financial services and energy sectors, Treasury has increased the cost of…

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Ukraine and the grand chessboard

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PressTV – Brzezinski mapped out the battle for Ukraine in …

Mar 16, 2014  

by Chris Ernesto

Why would the United States run the risk of siding with anti-Semitic, neo-Nazis in Ukraine? One of the keys may be found by looking back at Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard in which he wrote,

“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”

“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”… “Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive…

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CHINAS STRATEGIC SHIFT

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CHINAS STRATEGIC SHIFT TOWARD THE REGION OF THE FOUR SEAS: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM ARRIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

BY CHRISTINA Y. LIN 

MARCH 18, 2013

 China’s interest in the Middle East is first and foremost

• energy-driven. In 1993, when it became a net oil importer for the first time, Beijing embarked on a “go out” (zhouchuqu) policy to procure energy assets abroad to feed its growing economy… The legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rests on continued economic growth and delivering a rising standard of living for the Chinese population. As a corollary, China is also concerned about
• security of energy supply lines and Sea Lines of Communication (SLOCS).  Because the United States is considered its main opponent in the international system, China is wary of U.S. naval dominance and the risk of choking China’s energy supply through the Malacca Straits should hostilities break out over…

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BRICS strengthen the global financial safety net.

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Sixth BRICS Summit – Fortaleza Declaration

15 July 2014

Fortaleza, Brazil,

1. We, the leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa, met in Fortaleza, Brazil, on 15 July 2014 at the Sixth BRICS Summit…

5.The Sixth Summit takes place at a crucial juncture, as the international community assesses how to address the challenges of strong economic recovery from the global financial crises, sustainable development, including climate change, while also formulating

the Post-2015 – United Nations Millennium Development Goals

At the same time, we are confronted with persistent political instability and conflict in various global hotspots and non-conventional emerging threats. On the other hand, international governance structures designed within a different power configuration show increasingly evident signs of

• losing legitimacy and effectiveness, as transitional and ad hoc arrangements become increasingly prevalent,
• often at the expense…

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“Rio Consensus” a model for global economic governance in the 21st century

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BRICS: Toward a Rio Consensus – The Globalist

July 14, 2014

By Kevin P. Gallagher

Conveniently scheduled at the end of the World Cup, leaders of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) travel to Brazil this month for a meeting that presents them with a truly historic opportunity.

While in Brazil, the BRICS hope to establish a new development bank and reserve currency pool arrangement. This action could strike a true trifecta — recharge global economic governance and the prospects for development as well as pressure the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — to get back on the right track.

The two Bretton Woods institutions, both headquartered in Washington, with good reason originally put financial stability, employment and development as their core missions. That focus, however, became derailed in the last quarter of the 20th century.

During the 1980s and 1990s,

the World…

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