Posted on 09/14/2022 7:12:25 PM PDT by elpadre
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit will be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from Thursday to Friday. The summit has received particular attention from the international community. Fifteen heads of state, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will attend the summit. This is the first face-to-face discussion between leaders of the SCO member states since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The meeting will include Iran as the ninth member of the SCO and issue the Samarkand Declaration to expound the SCO's position on a series of international issues.
As the world's largest and most populous regional organization, the SCO has a prominent feature: openness and inclusiveness. The second round of SCO expansion is one of the core agendas of the Samarkand Summit. As the current members, observers and dialogue partners of the SCO are all non-Western countries, some of which are being sanctioned by the US and the West, such as Russia, Iran and Belarus, the SCO has attracted some suspicions from American and Western public opinion. They describe the SCO's exploration of new multilateral cooperation mechanisms as wanting to "compete" with the West or "against the West."
(Excerpt) Read more at globaltimes.cn ...
Interesting counterpoint to the WEF Great Reset project. East is east and west is west…
judging by this editorial the world is becoming a dual interest being - East and West. This is a fascinating look through someone else’s eyes.
an excerpt:
“If the West really has a sense of crisis, what it really needs to do is not to vilify the SCO, or even sow discord and dampen the enthusiasm of countries that want to participate in the organization. Instead, it should seriously reflect on what has gone wrong in its way of viewing the world. Washington often beats with a stick and offers a carrot, roping in other countries in all sorts of ways to form cliques. But many countries in the world are moving more and more away from it, while the SCO insists on the sovereign equality of states and non-exclusive multilateralism, and its circle of friends is getting bigger and bigger. The reason for this is that the SCO’s “three no’s principles” - no alliance, no confrontation, and no targeting any third party - have won the hearts of many countries. The more the US and the West engage in coercive diplomacy to force others to “take sides,” the stronger the global community’s demand for genuine multilateralism will be.
Presumably not including Ukraine or Taiwan.
Of course not. Both cases are countries “coerced by Western diplomacy” against CSO. You pretend to miss the idea of their statement, not to mention that neither Taiwan nor Ukraine are parts of it.
The "no alliances, no confrontation, and no targeting any third party" is a bunch of self-serving hypocrisy. Russia and China are both regional bullies surrounded by much smaller nations that could not possibly resist them. So of course they're against "alliances", because alliances are the best chance smaller nations have to resist them.
And "no confrontation, and no targeting any third party??". That is exactly what they are doing with both Ukraine and Taiwan. It's bad joke for them to pledge not to do exactly what they are doing at this very moment.
What alliance is targeting Ukraine or Taiwan? What do you think Taiwanese think about Pelosi visit? Most hated it as an unnecessary inciting. Regarding Ukraine and other countries on post-Soviet role you are ignoring all the agitprop and active measures by ‘Western democracies’. There are literal ‘educators’ from Peace Corps teaching children about Russians the same stuff blacks in the US indoctrinated by the libs to think about whites. Regarding Ukrainian conflict, there were at least to off ramps for Ukraine, both ignored under Western coercion.
Come to think of it, this is pointless. You're a Russian who sees China, Russia, and Iran as the good guys resisting western/U.S. imperialism. That argument doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, which is exactly what I'm doing by engaging with you.
“No, an alliance isn’t targeting Ukraine or Taiwan because the countries targeting them are large enough to play the bully without an alliance.”
LOL. Isn’t it defeating your entire previous point?
“Come to think of it, this is pointless. You’re a Russian who sees China, Russia, and Iran as the good guys resisting western/U.S. imperialism. That argument doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously, which is exactly what I’m doing by engaging with you.”
Yep, your arguments in this part are quasi-religious, based on perceived superiority, and can’t be defended by logical arguments, that is why you refuse to argue. The SCO statements addresses exactly that.
As a side note, I don’t see SCO lecturing the ‘Western democracies’ on how they should run their railroads. ‘Western democracies’ are all around the place sticking their noses at other people’s business. Employing puppet states on the periphery of their adversaries is part of it. Neither Ukraine nor Taiwan could have had any problems if not for their comprador administrations.
Blacks in the US that have been radicalized usually turn out to have connections to agitators trained by Russia or Cuba. New Black Panthers, Farrakhan, etc...
That is why the USSR founded the Patrice Lumumba University after their favorite...
Actually they renamed the school in honor of the Congolese leader. They used it as a training ground to train up people of color and so on from other countries as “community organizers” with the aim of sending them back to these countries to agitate populists into destabilizing their their governments so that communists could hijack any revolutionary movement that developed and take control in the chaos. They are as good as Democrats at exploiting race and creating racial division for political gain.
Yep, Jackson and Sharpton are Russians, and so is Obama, just like Trump is a Russian spy.
Even if true, how does it contradict my point?
Historically when ever there’s a “reset” to a New World Order you will always find two opposing forces (empries so to speak) duking it out to be the top dog in the eyes of th World. And there’s generally wars going on, economic issues, public distrust and anger, government parties being nasty etc. etc. Especially intresting is there’s always one of the two in a weakened state more than the other.
That is the way Empires Rise and fall - they reach that peak where they butt heads....so this is what we’re seeing beginning and likly will go on for sometime.
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