A collection of my blogs and articles posted in various websites during the week, and a couple of journals perused.
1] There is a historical preview on Sino-Arab relationship: China in the Middle East with related referenced readings incorporated.
This is followed by various China’s academics and European writers commenting on the Sino-Saudi-Iran mediation agreement.
There are other thoughtful assessments on renewed MENA geostrategic postures (look for selective articles in the Middle East Institute journal, too) following the invigorating China's diplomacy role in the Middle East, such as by career diplomat BHADRAKUMAR,and, to keep abreast, do have a look at China in the Middle East from the Cold War until Today
Wu Sike, China's former Special Envoy on the Middle East Issue and ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt (2000-2007), believes that Beijing's pivotal role in regional diplomacy has been long in the making……in alignment to living together in harmony" 和睦相处 [Zuo Zhuan], (Beijing Daily in chinese).
That this is a successful practice of China's Global Security Initiative (GSI) augurs well for an enduring sustainable and maintainable common security worldwide 🌐.
2] The persistence of World Bank in promoting the DIGITALISATIONof an ECONOMY is explored, with an understanding that the online is not a free wi-fi highway but colonised, and controlled, jalan-jalan where our Facebook data is mined and harvested, and that the WhatsApp communication is co-owned by the same TNC monopoly-capital.
Those constraints on any digitalisation effort should encompass the underemployment plight of our gig-economy labouring rakyat² - especially during present state of nation in her renewal pursuit of a structural economic developmental effort.
Further, it is of importance to relate the country-specific politico-economic history, like during a time of neoimperialism with unequal exchange, the underlying institutional and its social-anthropological context (viz: Sudhave’s moral compass) for a wholesome consuming understanding On Geoeconomics.
The unwrapping of TAPAO is the tactical takeaway praxis within the strategic outlook on idealising a path towards Socialism with Malaysia characteristics.
That the World Bank has had by 2019 acknowledged the China-model success in poverty reduction through applying whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach for Global South countries is a welcome takeout in consideration of a big push forward in development economics.
3] The week's outlook in the Asia-Pacific region and around The World is amalgamated in MOMENTUM, whereas a collation of breaking news items - covering an imminent danger to national security is curated onto The FRIDAY'S FILES which also has a link to the San Diego AUKUS trilateral meeting whence the dodo “Anglosphere” is renewing their alliance trying to control the blue waterways’ supply chains in the Asia-Pacific.
To those who are concerned, a brief background is in my AUKUS NATO'S ASIA post which can be explored deeper as part of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy positioning article.
4] There is a reposted piece on Feminist Foreign Policy - what does it means for progressives not only in Europe but to other parts the world, too. Not neglecting, of course, at our national level is the continuance of abuses to our women (and children).
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