A collection of my blogs and articles posted across various websites during the week that was, and selective articles as referred.
As beautiful things are happening in Geopolitics (slkanthan), with the imminent DE-DOLLARISATION taking its inevitable route, and rout of the US$ with The Emerging New World Economy (Richard Wolff), there is a calling on China to build a “new type of international system” in response to her perceived alienation from today’s US-led international order.
Many China-based think tankers have wanted the country to revise her current international strategy by refocusing diplomatic efforts away from the West towards the Global South (Russia included). Also, in parallel, there is a perceptive acknowledgement that government’s engagement abroad to be less growth-driven and more focused on political and security objectives.
3] The post-war core-periphery international order [战后以来的中心-边缘国际秩序] has threatened the unwritten Western-centric rules. Cheng Yawen (程亚文), researcher and doctoral supervisor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University probes with a deep analysis applying multifaceted diplomacy principles evaluating China's options as he envisages the emergence of a parallel system free from Western interference.
Though Yanis Varoufakis did posed the question in Havana recently whether the Third World really would expect anything fundamentally different from the BRICS because other monetary issues and fiscal processes have yet to be resolved, (globalresearch, 20/04/2023).
4] Can Malaysia be SIRED?
STRUCTURING INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
is the better bet for this nation genesis after years of wasted effort waylaid by kleptocractic ethnocapitals. However, to excel proficiently, the unity governance public sector has to raise to the challenges (Kai Ostwald,13/03/2023, fulcrum.sg) because its efficiency is not so well-respected by peer nations.
Not infrequent harsh critique of an ethno-administrative regime is the poor performance of the civil service, as the World Bank has had reported many a time; and its often sluggish deliverance of public goods and services, slackness in work productivity, and then widening misuse of public funds.
To revisit - owing to a recent interest of the Pharmaniaga story - and the multilayered processes and politics that are involved in BIG PHARMA BIG MONOPOLY.
5] According to UN demographic estimates discussed in WSJ here, India has surpassed China’s population
6] And the perpetual militarisation of African states continues:
even as Sudan has become a pivotal geopolitic of the Sahel and the Red Sea/Horn of Africa regions; read professor Adam Tooze Chartbook #209.
7] In Latin America and the Caribbean, where the United States is initiating an aggressive expansion plan with NATOnization by the Southern Command; also to read What is NATO Doing in Latin America? (internationalist 360⁰).
President Xiomara Castro meets with Commander of US Southcom, General Laura Richardson in Tegucigalpa. February 23, 2022.
It's also an appropriate time, in pursuit of, and reflect upon István Mészáros Militarism and the Coming Wars.
8] Just as the daunting diplomacy development in MENA lies in Riyadh courting Iran, Beijing is nurturing Israel and the Palestinians to show political courage and take steps to resume the Middle East peace talks.
However, one has to understand the underlying tension between Israel-China bloom-rose relationship, too, and the previous setbacks, (thediplomat), besides acknowledging the importance of “information reconciliation” in any background quasi-alliance negotiation.
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9] While the AUKUS submarine controversy churns above periscope depth, with no credible chance that USA shall win war with China over Taiwan, the Americans are, nonetheless, prodding and preparing Australians to go to war with China, (nzherald), regardless.
Kishore is of the view that Australia and New Zealand will be left stranded as the lonely Western outposts in Asia, (Australia Foreign Affairs 12/04/2023).
Hugh White is of the opinion that Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America is sleepwalking to war with China.
10] That there arises of the Pink Tide in USA backyard — the perniciousness of U.S. imperialism is more evident than ever; read monthlyreview: Prioritizing U.S. Imperialism in Evaluating Latin America’s Pink Tide.
This has to be acknowledged in light of the fact that The Four Lost Decades in Latin American Development, Luis Sanchez-Masi [To download 5-page abstract HERE].
The week's outlook in the Asia-Pacific region and events around The World are amalgamated in MOMENTUM edition #143, whereas a collection of breaking news items are collated in the FRIDAY FILES, 21/04/2023).
The ripples of a green wave may just crest over ..^..
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