PEPE ESCOBAR—Russia spans 11 time zones and sits atop as much as one third of the world’s natural resources. A natural symbiosis between Europe and Russia is like a fact of life. But the EU oligarchy blew it. It’s no wonder the Chinese leadership views the process with horror, because one of BRI’s essential planks is to facilitate seamless trade between China and Europe. As Russia’s connectivity corridor has been blocked by sanctions, China will be privileging corridors via West Asia. Meanwhile, Russia is completing its pivot to the east. Russia’s enormous resources, combined with the manufacturing capability of China and East Asia as a whole, project a trade/connectivity sphere that goes even beyond BRI. That’s at the heart of the Russian concept of Greater Eurasia Partnership.
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Irish Politician Calls Out NATO Warmongering Over Taiwan
5 minutes readAs a Member of the European Parliament representing Ireland, Clare Daly is often the governing body’s voice of conscience, and most recently she spoke out against the escalating rhetoric and militarism threatening war between NATO and China over Taiwan. The “One China” policy that treats Taiwan and China as a single unit is imperfect, Daly says, but has helped maintain peace for decades and should not be so cavalierly discarded, especially considering how dire the consequences of war could be for the entire planet. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the Biden administration’s potential abandonment of the One China policy and Daly’s efforts to salvage it.
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JEFF BROWN—One of the great fabrications of Western mainstream media, among academics and on Wall Street is that China, starting in 1978 with Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, became a capitalist country. The favorite Western shibboleth bandied about is that, China’s authoritarian regime (it’s almost never called a government) runs a system of state capitalism.
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ERIC ZUESSE—America’s aristocracy don’t care about “democracy” (other than — like any aristocracy does — to defeat democracy everywhere), but they do want to weaken any country that they are hoping to “regime-change” or take over. Breaking off a piece of a targeted nation is a prominent standard traditional way to do that — to weaken a targeted victim-nation.
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METALICMAN—China has just now released a “white paper” on the Taiwan reunification issue
China has just laid down the “rules of engagement” regarding Taiwan reunification. It’s being ignored or minimized by the Western “news”, but it is a strikingly important document. MM discusses this document.