The Eurasian Axis Dr. Alexandr Nemets Monday, Oct. 20, 2003
On Oct. 8-9, a German-Russian summit took place in Yekaterinburg city, also known as the capital of Ural; this was the sixth German-Russian summit during President Vladimir Putin’s regime, i.e., in three and a half years.
Ministers of Foreign Affairs Ivanov and Fisher, Ministers of Internal Affairs Gryzlov and Shilli, Ministers of Trade and Economy Gref and Klement, etc., participated in the summit. In addition, German Chancellor Gerhard sSchroeder brought a group of 50 leading German businessmen, including the presidents of Ruhrgas, Deutsche Bank and Lufthansa Airline. In 1995, Russian President Boris Yeltsin proposed to French President Jacques Chiraq and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to have a summit in Yekaterinburg for the purpose of establishing a new German-French-Russian political axis. This summit didn't take place.
In March 2003, during the Iraqi War (when the Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Beijing axis, for the first time ever, went from the darkness to the light), Putin sent Schroeder a new invitation to visit Yekaterinburg. It is unknown whether French President Chiraq received the same invitation. However, Schroeder almost certainly represented, at the last summit, the interests of France in addition to Germany.
In 2002, German-Russian trade reached $24 billion and could slightly increase in 2003. By the end of 2003, the accumulated volume of German investment in Russia reached $7 billion. Germany is the largest creditor of Russia: it owns 40 percent of Russian debts to the London Club, or $17 billion. Germany is one of the few countries investing money in the Russian manufacturing industry. The number of Russian enterprises with German participation reached 2,500.
It should be stressed that Germany receives from Russia 23 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, mostly from Gazprom Corp.; this satisfies at least one-third of the German demand for natural gas.
Presently, Russia sells natural gas to Germany and other European customers for about $100 per 1,000 cubic meters, while Russian customers pay (if based on the official exchange rate) only $20 per 1,000 cubic meters. Putin and Schroeder discussed ways to raise Russia’s internal prices for energy, including gas, up to the world level.
In this case, Russia’s internal consumption of natural gas would definitely drop – just as it already happened with crude oil and oil products – and Russia would receive huge resources for gas export to Germany and other EU countries.
The two sides signed agreements about facilitating the issuing of visas and expanding cooperation between Germany and Russia’s most-western Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad. They also signed an agreement for transportation, through Russia, of German military personnel and goods to Afghanistan.
Remarkably, the two sides discussed the problems of Iraq, North Korea and Iran, and found how close their positions are; the differences are small if any. And the joint position of these two countries in these areas differs greatly from America’s.
Many years ago, French leaders produced the idea of a "United Europe" from the Atlantic to Ural. However, this United Europe has nothing to do with American interests.
Simultaneously with the summit in Yekaterinburg, on Oct. 10, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mehdi Karubi met, in Tehran, a delegation from the German Bundestag. Karubi emphasized during the meeting that the Iranian nuclear program is "transparent, peaceful and contains no threat to the world."
He also stressed that "criminal actions of Zionists contribute to instability in the Middle East." It looks as if these statements elicited no serious objections from the German guests. Speaker Mekhdi also said that development and expansion of political and economic ties with the EU, particularly with Germany, is a priority for Tehran.
Volker Ruhe, the head of the Bundestag delegation, supported the expansion of ties between Germany and Iran and "highly estimated the recent processes of democracy expanding in Iran." He also appealed to Iran’s role in local conflict solving.
These were just two messages, from many, characterizing relations among Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang. The Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Beijing axis is growing and strengthening; and the nice regimes in Tehran and Pyongyang are becoming its clients.
This is bad by itself, but the deliberate ignoring of this reality by official Washington, D.C., is even worse. We know that the Bush administration concentrates all its efforts on solving the problems of postwar Iraq. However, very probably, just the activity of some participants and clients of the Eurasian Axis – especially those very interested in high oil prices on the world market and very uninterested in restoring the Iraqi oil industry – effectively blocks these efforts.
In March 2003, when American-Russian relations were at their low ebb, Gleb Pavlovsky, one of Putin’s "dark strategists," published in the major Moscow papers, including the official Russian army paper Krasnaya Zvezda, several articles, which can be condensed to the following: Russia should ‘help’ America to exhaust itself in the struggle for world hegemony. Eventually America will crash – as the USSR crashed – and will crawl back to the North American continent.
Despite all the sweet words between Washington and Moscow, the Kremlin continues working only in this direction. And not without success: Look at the figures of the federal deficit. Indeed, for how long will America be capable of maintaining its presence, particularly a military presence, in Iraq and other key regions of the world?
And would it be possible for America to take even a step ahead in the Middle East, i.e., to increase its political and military presence in Trans-Caucasus region (in Georgia and Azerbaijan) and in Central Asia? Kremlin and the entire Eurasian Axis spare no effort to prevent the strengthening of the American position in this vital zone. And without such a strengthening, any hopes for a changed situation in Iran and termination of the Iranian nuclear-missile program would fail.
On Sept. 25-28, the leading Beijing papers published a series of comments on the Bush-Putin summit. They can be condensed to the following:
a) Putin escapes direct confrontation with America. Moreover, he intends to get as much money from America and the entire West – in the form of hydrocarbons export and Western investment in Russia – as possible.
b) Putin pretends to be "a friend of America" and repeats phrases about "joint Russian-American struggle against terrorism"; this allows Putin to run wild in Chechnya and the surrounding Muslim regions of North Caucasus, without problems with the West.
c) However, in some principal areas, such as helping modernize the Iranian military or preventing any American action against North Korea, Putin is adamant: President Bush will get nothing here.
It is necessary to admit that the conclusions of the Beijing media are correct. Putin merely "plays a friend of America" and, at the same time, works for solidifying and expanding the Eurasian Axis, the new world pole, generally hostile to the USA and its close allies.
Remarkably, these articles in the Beijing papers even didn't touch the possible influence of the Bush-Putin summit over the huge – and still growing – supplies of Russian warfare and dual-use technology to China. This is a real sacred cow for the Kremlin.
***Finally, the author has begun distributing the book "Chinese-Russian Alliance," written jointly with his friend Dr. Thomas Torda, with the support of NewsMax.com. The table of contents is given below. Purchasing information is at the Web site http://excelenterprises1.tripod.com
Link:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/19/214534.shtml
Dr. Alexandr Nemets (BIO)
Alexandr Nemets was born in Moscow in 1955. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, where he received a B.S. degree as a specialist in industry automation in 1978 and an M.S. degree as a data base developer in 1983. From 1978 to 1986, he worked as a programmer, at the same time studying Chinese and Japanese.
From 1986 to1992, he worked at the Presidium of Academy of Sciences USSR as an expert on the economic and technological development of China and Japan. During this period he published several dozen articles and booklets in the Soviet scientific media.
In 1991, Dr. Nemets defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Science-intensive sectors in the Chinese economy," at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences USSR and received a Ph.D. degree in 1992.
In 1989-93, Dr. Nemets undertook seven trips to the vast region between Lake Baikal and Beijing. In 1994 he emigrated to the United States, working at the University of Minnesota in 1995.
From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Nemets was a consultant to Science Applications International Corp. and published several hundred research reports related to China and Russia.
From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Nemets was a consultant to the American Foreign Policy Council and other governmental and non-governmental organizations in Washington, D.C.
A lot of American companies are risking a lot of capital by investing in China.
I certainly don't.
We should start demanding from companies to do less business with China and more with other countries. Put more jobs in Mexico.
Please ping those you think might find this useful info. Thanks--TTS
Hope you guys like Chinese food.
Sincerely,
Uncle Sam
Jeff- thought you might be interested.
Rob
Whose side will you choose?
Well worth reading this thread.
China and Russia.
Oh, boy, here we go again, now with corporates (especially some on our left coast) in China. I'll just call you "TTS, the can o' worms opener." LOL!
Bill G., please get all of your goodies out of China, and put them in India. That is, unless you want BSD and Linux consultants to take all of the India business,...
Microsoft's Bill Gates to meet with Jacques Chirac, sign Dassault deal Wednesday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1281425/posts?page=1
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041116/bs_afp/france_us_it_software_041116203803
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $8.8 million to the Planned Parenthood Federation.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/12/11/health.women.gates.reut/
"Microsoft offers source code to China"
http://itmatters.com.ph/news/news_03032003a.html
(removed from major news sites)
Gates: Buy stamps to send e-mail
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/
Bill Gates against repealing the inheritance tax
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_inheritance.html
"Soros, one of the wealthiest men in the world, promised $15.5
million to defeating President Bush. Also on this list are
Bill Gates,..."
http://www.americasvoices.org/archives2003/CoxJ/CoxJ_112403.htm
(most excellent link so far)
The Left-Wing Billionaire Collectivist Pigs
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/9/25/191020.shtml
(pretty good)
Billionaire Collectivist Pigs on a Roll
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/11/171315.shtml
"Gun-Control Group Changes Name, Keeps Agenda"
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5C%5CNation%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200106%5C%5CNAT20010615a.html
(and Bill is a contributor)
"Is Bill Gates a closet liberal?"
http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/01/cov_29feature.html
(Bill Gates for gun control, pro-abortion, etc.)
http://vikingphoenix.com/news/madminute/1997/mm970040.htm
(Gates on gun control)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec97/guns_11-4.html
(more money for gun control from Gates and his father)
"Bill Gates Is No Free Market Hero"
http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2000/12/000046.html
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/datelinedc/s_176864.html
(ah, somewhat good)
Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
"the changing politics of Bill Gates" (national review, john j. miller)
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1282/2_51/53662235/p1/article.jhtml
2002 Feb 2, In NYC protesters of the World Economic Forum turned
out in large numbers. Inside foreign economic leaders criticized
the US for protectionist policies, and Bill Gates and U2 rock star
Bono pushed for increases in foreign aid by rich countries to poor
countries."
http://timelines.ws/days/02_02.HTML
"Software, soft money, and Libertarians"
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0039/news-anderson.shtml
[Bill gives money to both sides--whoever supports Microsoft and extreme social left policies.
...includes Barney Frank.]
Client testimonials, Bill Gates in China, Bill Clinton in China
http://www.beijinghighlights.com/testimonials/testimonials.htm
"State-owned Software Firm Ties up with Microsoft China"
http://fpeng.peopledaily.com.cn/200107/07/eng20010707_74398.html
RE: China's ability to compromise nearly every citizen of Taiwan, including the highest ranking military and governmental personnel, raises alarming questions concerning Beijing's espionage capabilities directed against other opponents, including the United States.
Anyone with the slightist doubt about this needs to know the following. Ever since the "thaw" in the 1980s, which allowed US business to, initially, start up operations in the PRC, and ultimately, hire H1Bs and L1As who are PRC nationals, PRC nationals have increasingly been allowed to access the critical data and documantation systems at US based corporations. Also, let us not forget that many public sector databases are managed by private firms. What this means, is that PRC nationals have, and have had for quite a long time, access to extremely senstive private info on a large number of people in the US. Now, I must ask, how easy or difficult would it have been to embed operatives amongst all those H1Bs and L1As?
...China's ability to compromise nearly every citizen of Taiwan, including the highest ranking military and governmental personnel, raises alarming questions concerning Beijing's espionage capabilities directed against other opponents, including the United States....
This cannot be stressed enough. Our governemnt is swimming in Chinese cash. Our Senate voted unanimously to not have a trial of the Chinese Assets that formerly occupied the White House.
Anyone want to bet who has copies of those famous FBI files?
Nothing has really changed since then.
The sleeping giant stirs.
Though we are sworn to defend Taiwan, we kinda got our hands full atm.
We could really piss off the Chinese and just annex Taiwan.
"Chinese intelligence services have been able to acquire a file of personal data on nearly every inhabitant on the island of Taiwan."
After the PRC invades and subjugates Taiwan, expect massive arrests and incarcerations in "Re Education" camps. It will be a repeat of Mao's massacre of millions in the 50s and 60s.
The author here reveals himself to be a clueless nitwit.
Yet again forgets about the enormously powerful Japanese Navy. And Japan was a democracy, last time I checked.
>Communists agression....military intrusion against its neighbors....could pull the U.S. into a naval war in the Pacific...<
Also why are high Chinese Communist officials visiting Cuba, Brazil, Argentina of late? The last battle before it is publically announced that the U.S.A. is now owned by Communist China? (Thanks to American corporate greed!)
OTOH, our masterful submarine division is on the alert in our waters, so could China win such a skirmish?
Oh, Mr. President.......?
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