GEOECONOMICS GEOPOLITICS #16
Blinken's China; soft power; new NAM; Kohei Saito, Vilma Espín, Walden Bello, Shamsiah and Kathigasu; neoliberalism in Industry 4.0 Initiative
Highlighted are the postings and scripts written in the week that was:
1] BLINKEN IN CHINA as commented by academics from Tsinghua Nanjing and Fudan; PART 2 Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and China Institute of Contemporary scholars’ reactions.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated that Biden’s comments on Xi Jinping: “seriously violate basic facts, diplomatic protocols and China’s political dignity”.
2] A ECOSOCIALIST FUTURE is a review of Kohei Saito’s book
on abuse of resources for commercial exploitation with links to Malaysia case studies in Kuantan's Lynas rare earth production, Sabah's Mamut copper mining and gold mining in Pahang.
3] THE TWENTY FOUR covers the new non-aligned movement challenging THE TRIAD as expounded by Vijay Prashad.
4] VILMA ESPÍN on Cuban feminist movement was well read as there were links to our Malaysian female resistance fighters Shamsiah Fakeh
and Sybil Kathigasu
as published in the new left malaysia where there are archives of other national progressives, too.
5] LACK OF SOFT POWER covers a particular set of geopolitical deficiency in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan that is faced by China which is well explored in an article by Lu Gang (陆钢), the director of East China Normal University’s Centre for Central Asian Studies.
[ For those keen on Kazakhstan geopolitics, here's a Russia Global Affairs piece; and Zhouzi Lin Disparate Influences of the Provincial Sino-Russian Political Border ].
6] FROM CHINA TO AMERICAS traces the Ice Age migrations to the Americas with new genetic evidence prior to the hot confrontations with the first visit of a U.S. secretary of state to China since 2018.
7] Filipino progressive scholar and internationalist - WALDEN BELLO - delivering his Amnesty International award speech on American imperialism and World Bank’s neoliberalism with its Structured Assisted Program.
8] A coverage on ECONOMIC NEOLIBERALISM IN EXPORT-ORIENTED INDUSTRIALISATION AND THE INDUSTRY 4.O INITIATIVE in Malaysia is explored by the collective on geoeconomics that shall be a prelude to the Madani Economic Narrative in a forthcoming paper.
9] The week's
MOMENTUM #152 and the FRIDAY FILES 23rd June 2023
10] Last issue of GEOECONOMICS with GEOPOLITICAL Dimensions #15 is available HERE.
Other past notes are in these selective editions:
Till next Saturday - solidarity salutè.