A collection of my blogs and articles posted across various websites during the week, with read and referred journals.
1] The piece on CHINA’S PATH TO MODERNIZATION has traction as it underlines the whole-of-government and whole-of-society combination of traditional top-down and community-based bottom-up approach, that is acknowledged as a better development model even by the World Bank. This targeted poverty alleviation praxis should be adopted, and adapted, in low-income countries toward modern economic development.
Concurrent with any economic developmental effort is a practice resonating in many other states aspiring to be in goodness and well-being together with humanity - and that is, Common Prosperity:
The CHINA'S UKRAINE PEACE INITIATIVE
may not be most welcomed by USA and her western Europe allies in the midst of a horrendous conflict, but looking at Ukraine’s economic status:
it is the reason anyone would like to see - and willingness in accepting a geostrategic reality - that of a bigger picture of peace on earth.
And, in a surprising People’s Daily tribute to Xi — the mentioning by name of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who since Russia’s cross-border of his country more than a year ago has been mentioned just once in the pages of a flagship newspaper.
That peace initiative definitively sealed China-Russia as comprehensive strategic partners for the long haul, committed to developing serious geopolitical and geoeconomic competitive advantages over an eclipsing hegemon which is having a declining birth rate:
Thus, the demolition of remnants of Pax Americana (Pepe Escobar, In Moscow, Xi and Putin bury Pax Americana), is inevitable.
The positive acceptance to China effort to the Saudi-Iran mediation continues, with
Chinese THINK TANKS ANALYSES being summarised therein.
2] The depth of ethnocractic kleptocracy is well known in Malaysia, and the time to demolish the clientel-rentiers - anchored with a structured class preference - the Unity Governance is proposing to deconstruct oligarchy monopolies in the country.
This underscores the need to look at MONOPOLIES, CAPITAL AND MONOPOLY-CAPITALISM on a broader plain to understand how Global North transnationals have aided on the genesis processes in generating and perpetuating comprador capital artifacts in a neoliberalism environment that has to be treated as neoimperialism.
3] That the Asia-Pacific basin has to prepare a US-war against China cannot be demised unknowingly, (johnmenadue).
With expanding military expenditure, the United States has spent US$19 trillion on its military since the end of the Cold War.
More so that the US hegemon is continuing to string allies into informal pacts, alliances and quasi-alliances to maintain its dominant position.
One such military outpost is the little red dot in the Southeast Asia archipelago.
After the East of Suez withdrawal, it was once uttered that "If the British bases go, there will be no American bases in Singapore".
But, then, there is.
We look at how SINGAPORE IS ENTRAPPED IN A QUASI-ALLIANCE WITH AMERICA as an US imperial outpost - “Singapore: The City Which Has Profited Most from the War in Vietnam,” (Aftonbladet, Sweden, December 10, 1971) - which is expanding with military facilities with armed features that have battle functionalities for any geostrategic conflict in the Asia-Pacific basin, whence the Destiny for War is not an improbability but a proper possibility.
Compounded not only by more bases in The Philippines, but the advent of The Geopolitics of Drone Warfare killings.
It is thus with due concern that Southeast Asian nations are against the US-China rivalry and urged the two sides to cooperate to avoid further bifurcation that would be felt across global markets.
4]The week's outlook in the Asia-Pacific region and around The World is amalgamated in MOMENTUM edition #140, whereas a collection of breaking news items - covering blowbacks of CHIPS Act, Pakistan terrorism resurgence, Way out of Ukraine, Politicised Institutional ☪️ and others -
are collated in the FRIDAY FILES.
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