Posted on 09/22/2021 6:03:24 PM PDT by elpadre
The 20th-anniversary summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, enshrined nothing less than a new geopolitical paradigm.
Iran, now a full SCO member, was restored to its traditionally prominent Eurasian role, following the recent US$400 billion trade and development deal struck with China. Afghanistan was the main topic – with all players agreeing on the path ahead, as detailed in the Dushanbe Declaration. And all Eurasian integration paths are now converging, in unison, towards the new geopolitical – and geoeconomic – paradigm.
Call it a multipolar development dynamic in synergy with China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
The Dushanbe Declaration was quite explicit on what Eurasian players are aiming at: “a more representative, democratic, just and multipolar world order based on universally recognized principles of international law, cultural and civilizational diversity, mutually beneficial and equal cooperation of states under the central coordinating role of the UN.”
For all the immense challenges inherent to the Afghan jigsaw puzzle, hopeful signs emerged on Tuesday (September 21), when former Afghan president Hamid Karzai and peace envoy Abdullah Abdullah met in Kabul with Russian presidential envoy Zamir Kabulov, China’s special envoy Yue Xiaoyong and Pakistan’s special envoy Mohammad Sadiq Khan.
This troika – Russia, China, Pakistan – is at the diplomatic forefront. The SCO reached a consensus that Islamabad will coordinate with the Taliban on the formation of an inclusive government that including Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras.
The most glaring, immediate consequence of the SCO’s not only incorporating Iran but also taking the Afghan bull by the horns, fully supported by the Central Asian “stans,” is that the Empire of Chaos has been completely marginalized.
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Its really up to the Asians to establish their own social and political consensus. America’ foward line of defense should end just west of Midway, Wake and Samoa. We cannot and should not dictate Asian affairs.
Japan and Philippines better sign that free trade agreement if they want America to defend their interests.
China will take both for everything they are worth.
“....The Global South is not impressed. Addressing the forum in Dushanbe, Russian President Vladimir Putin remarked that the portfolio of nations knocking on the SCO’s door was huge.
Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are now SCO dialogue partners, on the same level with Afghanistan and Turkey. It’s quite feasible they may be joined next year by Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Serbia and dozens of others.
And it doesn’t stop in Eurasia. In his well-timed address to CELAC, Chinese President Xi Jinping invited no fewer than 33 Latin American nations to be part of the Eurasia-Africa-Americas New Silk Roads....”
Our newspapers remain silent on this and other serious movements and alignments going on around the world which will have a mighty effect on US security and national well being.
The US still believes they can purchase friends and loyalty with dollars. When, in fact, our dollars have made enemies of some.
This is the future for all of Asia if Red China prevails:
“Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the weekend’s election of a powerful committee to appoint senior leaders, after just one candidate not strictly aligned with the establishment camp was elected among the 1,500 positions.”
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Unipolarity is not the norm. No country can carry and control the entire world. Time for going back to traditional balance of power politics without any sentimentality for so called “allies.”
China wants Iranian oil.
Iran wants Chinese goodies.
This points to the importance of Trump’s MAGA. When the USA is strong militarily and economically, then all who are aligned with our interest share in that strength.
When we are weak and flailing, we become targets and sink to the depths of third-world status and no one benefits.
Yep, and when you are weak and flailing, you will see how loyal “allies” truly are.
I’ve been predicting this for a decade. All thanks to the NeoCons & NeoLibs for bankrupting our nation, illegal secondary sanctioning others, forcing Russia & China into an avowed “strategic partnership”. We are done.
Perceptive analysis. With Biden giving Afghanistan away to the Chinese, they now have a free run from the Pacific Ocean to the Persian Gulf. With Russia weaponizing her natural gas supplies to bring Europe to heel, there is a prospect of a whole eurasian landmass allied and coordinated in opposition to what remains of the West.
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