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| A new face to US-China ties |
| 22.07.10 12:34 |
Asia rising |
| Frictions between China and the United States have proved persistent and apparently structural. In response, the Barack Obama administration has chosen to interpret its doctrine of "strategic reassurance" as the simple and emotionally satisfying strategy of rollback - attacking Chinese interests instead of trying to accommodate them. |
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| A geostrategy for Eurasia |
| 23.05.10 21:22 |
Asia rising |
| The USA today wants to control the flow of oil & gas from Central Asian regions through its pipelines and the ports of its choice. It will not want to sell all to Western nations, but depending on good and "reciprocal" behaviour to Russia and China too. But the control of the gas will be vested with USA. Russia and China have other plans. |
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| US-China Rivalry Intensifies |
| 12.01.10 15:20 |
Asia rising |
| Last year, it was fashionable to talk of an emerging “G2”. The US, the world’s largest economy, and China, its rising rival, would come together to resolve global problems—in particular, the international economic crisis wracking capitalism. |
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| New Great Game revisited |
| 25.07.09 11:10 |
Asia rising |
| Things get curiouser and curiouser in the Iranian wonderland. Imagine what happened last week during Friday prayers in Tehran, personally conducted by former president Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, aka "The Shark", Iran′s wealthiest man, who made his fortune partly because of Irangate - the 1980s′ secret weapons contracts with Israel and the US. |
| Pepe Escobar. Asia Times Online |
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| India plays catch-up in the great game |
| 18.07.09 23:18 |
Asia rising |
| The Central Asian question is no more the same as it was in the 1990s. No one speculates anymore that it was inevitable that the region would descend into anarchy. However, the problems endemic to a critical period of state formation linger. The transition economies were just about switching gear when the global economic crisis struck. Growth slackened. Foreign investment dwindled. Commodity prices crashed. |
| M K Bhadrakumar |
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| The "New Great Game" in Eurasia is being fought in its "Buffer Zones" |
| 30.04.09 10:40 |
Asia rising |
| On April 7, 2009 in Moldova′s capital Chisinau, supporters of the Liberal Party of Moldova, the Liberal-Democratic Party of Moldova, and the Our Moldova Alliance ignited violent protests in response to the results of Moldova′s parliamentary elections. They respectively won 13.14%, 12.43%, and 9.77% of the total vote, while the ruling party, the Communist Party of Moldova won 49.48% of the vote. The Christian-Democratic People′s Party of Moldova also won 3.03% of the vote. While international observers have said that no irregularities were seen in the parliamentary elections, the three main opposition parties said that it was rigged and, in an all too familiar modus operandi, started violent protests. |
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| NATO meddling in Sudan to block China |
| 24.01.09 22:09 |
Asia rising |
| The US is slowly shifting its military needs towards Africa and Sudan in particular. While the Barack Obama administration will force the UN to declare a no-fly zone over Darfur, the US forces in so called peacekeeping missions will establish their bases in Darfur or Kenya and other surrounding nations in order to keep Sudan under its umbrella. |
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| China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America's New Military Command |
| 28.11.08 00:05 |
Asia rising |
| Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing with the Republic of Congo, the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, the oil-rich Darfur region of southern Sudan and increasingly the Somali ‘pirate threat’ to sea lanes in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The legitimate question is whether it is mere coincidence that Africa appears just at this time to become a new geopolitical ‘hot spot’ or whether it has a direct link to the formal creation of AFRICOM. |
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