A summary of articles as posted this week in my alternative websites, and other referenced links, covering
1] ERDOĞANISATION of TURKEY where the size of AKP political machinery would ensure and entail an Erdoganic victory
Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party claims over 11 million members out of population of 85 million! 20 percent of the electorate or so is organized in the party as members!
TWO TURKEYS summarise the position, and options, of the oppositions at a crossroads pointing to their ardous tasks ahead:
2] DEMOCRACY WITH ELECTIONS compared the general elections in Turkey and Thailand, differentiating the processes in electing an autocratic authority and the active participation by elective democrats even though the latter is abound in a political jungle of tigers and crocodiles, (Jacob Ricks, SMU).
At an event organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in March 2023, Tsinghua University’s Yan Yilong (鄢一龙 ) talked on
CHINA AND THE WEST HAVE PROVIDED DIFFERENT ANSWERS TO THESE SIX QUESTIONS ON ‘DEMOCRACY’
where he elaborated in what ways are China’s “whole-process people's democracy” is not only true democracy at play, but is also a more functional type of democracy than that practised in Western countries.
4] A DISCOURSE OF INTERNATIONAL POWER
refers to the fundamental basis for enhancing the dissemination and influence of Chinese civilization. Professor Wang Weimin argues that China must “dare to struggle” by integrating Xi's Overall National Security Concept and China's major-power diplomacy, i.e., securitizing China's foreign policy.
“We must seize the ideological initiative and take command of the international discourse power that shapes perceptions of our country”
5] CHINA-TAIWAN EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP shall likely have a new geostrategic direction now that Wang Huning is tasked to adjust China’s Taiwan policy.
Otherwise, any conflict is deadly unpleasant.
Destined for War - USA and CHINA: the STRATEGIC OPTIONS to AVOID CATASTROPHIC CONFLICTS.
IF a war between USA and China ever takes place, everyone is finishes (Noam Chomsky in covertaction).
Likely,
like A War with China, (nyt 27/02/2023); What Would a US War with China Look Like? (Cato Institute, 24/10/2022).
And this coming episode is after various wars, NATO AND THE LONG WAR on the Third World
with
Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings
Western hegemony sustainably in current power paradigm of a Western global dominance at any cost.
5] THE IMF 2023 REPORT ON MALAYSIA is a typical neoliberal advisory- consultancy justification on neoimperialism in context. Take a look at a comprehensive presentation of Malaysia's “economic health” in the THE 2023 BUDGET: ON A BULLOCK BACK
before reading a critique on the IMF 2023 Report: ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH RETARDING DEVELOPMENT whereby this country-case indecisive implementation effort and tight political stronghold with clientel capitalism, leads to holding an immense amount of a national debt: $1,500,000,000,000.
View and listen to (RM$1.5 Trillion): a +3-minute video succinct presentation.
Debt-trap diplomacy is a term to describe an international financial relationship where a creditor country or institution extends debt to a borrowing nation partially, or solely, to increase the lender's political leverage.
Despite there being a total of 93 countries owing it money, the IMF’s top 10 debtors still account for the lion’s share (71.7%) of the outstanding balance.
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