{"id":16477,"date":"2022-07-18T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16477"},"modified":"2022-07-18T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:25:30","slug":"multipolar-world-arises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/?p=16477","title":{"rendered":"Multipolar World Arises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia and China have accelerated the next phase of Middle East reconstruction and stabilization this week with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi\u2019s March 24-30th<\/sup>\u00a0Middle East tour resulting in the finalization of the long-awaited\u00a0Five Point Initiative for Security in Southwest Asia<\/a>\u00a0on March 30th<\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0$400 billion Iran deal<\/a>\u00a0on March 27th<\/sup>. These milestones were accompanied by a powerful Chinese-Iran\u00a0joint declaration<\/a>\u00a0on Syrian reconstruction.<\/p>\n

The fact that Wang Yi\u2019s Middle East tour follows hot on the heals of the March 23rd<\/sup>\u00a0Russia-China Joint Statement on Global Governance<\/a>\u00a0should come as no surprise as many nations across the Arab world have increasingly come to recognize that their participation in the collapsing western-run order is no longer compatible with their desire to survive. Among these nations are included Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Oman, the UAE, and Bahrain- all of whom hosted Wang Yi last week and all of whom have begun their transitions towards a new pro-Eurasian paradigm of large scale development.<\/p>\n

Wang Yi\u2019s Five Point Initiative featured an explicit protocol to develop infrastructure via the Belt and Road Initiative, promote dialogue among civilizations, a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, promote policies of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and collective security with a focus on new and enhanced Middle East Trust mechanisms.<\/p>\n

In his official announcement, Wang Yi stated: \u201cAs it fosters a new development paradigm, China is ready to share with Middle East countries the opportunities of the Chinese market, work with Arab countries to actively prepare for the China-Arab states summit, promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and expand new areas of growth such as high and new technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having himself just completed a tour<\/a>\u00a0of several key middle east nations (UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) and having met with high officials representing both Israel and Hezbollah in Moscow, Lavrov\u00a0delivered remarks<\/a>\u00a0at the Valdai Discussion Club on the Middle East in Moscow on March 31st<\/sup>\u00a0where the statesman promoted Russia\u2019s\u00a0Draft Security Concept for the Middle East<\/em>\u00a0(which not coincidentally looks a lot like the Chinese Five Point Initiative).<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Lavrov stated: \u201cWe propose that the Middle East should cease to be an arena where the interests of leading powers clash. It is necessary to balance these interests and to reconcile them among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as among non-regional powers\u201d.<\/p>\n

What shape will this new security concept look like in Russia\u2019s mind?<\/p>\n

Lavrov painted a picture of the Helsinki Process as a role model\u2026 except with one difference: Western geopoliticians cannot be permitted to sabotage the emerging Middle East version as they had with the well intentioned but ultimately failed Helsinki predecessor which has lost all viability since NATO expansion has accelerated under the unipolar Full Spectrum Dominance Strategy. Lavrov stated that \u201cwe should try to launch a process akin to the Helsinki Process\u2026 The Pan European process was launched on the basis of compromise ensuring a balance of interests and the west began to demolish it later on.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0April 1st<\/sup>\u00a0interview<\/a>, Lavrov described the effects of the anti-Eurasian war policy saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have a missile defence area in Europe. Nobody is saying that this is against Iran now. This is clearly being positioned as a global project designed to contain Russia and China. The same processes are underway in the Asia-Pacific region. No one is trying to pretend that this is being done against North Korea\u2026 This is a global system designed to back U.S. claims to absolute dominance, including in the military-strategic and nuclear spheres.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the earlier Helsinki Process relied on such institutions as the UN Security council and the sovereign enforcement of its 35 signatories, the Middle East version must rely upon the combined collaboration of every agency representing North Africa and the Middle East including the Arab Monarchies, Iran, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and UN Security Council.<\/p>\n

How could this party avoid being crashed as was the case of the Helsinki Process?<\/p>\n

The answer is to be found in the combined power of Russia, China and Iran which is quickly evolving into one new unified power bloc of common interest. Through this new anti-imperial alliance, China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative has been given the support and lifeblood it needs to succeed in bringing fast-paced development to regions that have been kept under the heel of imperialism for decades. Empires across the ages have long known that \u201cno economic development = no chance for peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

As of this writing, 139 nations have signed onto the BRI Framework with 17 found in the Middle East and North Africa. Additionally, 39 sub-Saharan African nations, 34 European and Central Asian, 25 east Asian, and 18 Latin American nations have joined the train which represents 63% of the world population.<\/p>\n

Contrast this multipolar program with the dark age agenda of unipolarism and regime change, as every effort is made to relight the flames which nearly burnt Syria to the ground.<\/p>\n

On March 29th<\/sup>, Anthony Blinken stood up at a UN Security Council meeting on Syria\u00a0where he shed crocodile tears<\/a>\u00a0for the \u201cpoor starving people\u201d of Syria whose pains, hunger and medical needs, he exclaimed were \u201cnot to be met by the Assad regime\u201d. Blinken shamelessly ignored the words of the Russian and Chinese UN Ambassadors who were quick to remind him that Syria\u2019s problems had more to do with the vicious\u00a0Caesar Act sanctions<\/a>\u00a0of June 2020 than anything Bashar al Assad could be accused of doing. As it now stands, America\u2019s unilateral sanctions have resulted in Syria finding herself among the poorest nations on earth with a 90% poverty level and a desperate citizenry waiting in lines several miles long every day for rations of bread and gasoline. To make matters worse, the same Americans whose hearts bled over the dying Syrians at the UN\u00a0have been caught stealing grain and oil reserves<\/a>\u00a0using military convoys over the past several weeks.<\/p>\n

How has the Biden team chosen to try to counter the Belt and Road Initiative whose existence so dearly threatens the unipolar order upon which his narrow idea of \u201cU.S. interests\u201d rests?<\/p>\n

The insanity of the two available options are only matched by their disassociation from reality: 1) unleash a total war of extermination by kicking over the game board or 2) promote an \u201calternative U.S.-led Belt and Road Initiative\u201d (according to Biden\u2019s own words).<\/p>\n

While this second option may sound unbelievable, the fact is that Biden actually stated in his recent call with Boris Johnson that the USA must create \u201can infrastructure plan to rival the BRI\u201d. Biden went on to say \u201cI suggest we have, essentially a similar initiative\u2026 helping those communities around the world that in fact need help\u201d.<\/p>\n

If only the USA were in a moral, intellectual and financial position to seriously offer investment strategies in the spirit of the BRI as Biden wishes to believe, then the world would have much to look forward to, as this form of constructive competition would actually benefit humanity. The truth is however that the bankrupt empire has little to offer a world whose poverty and underdevelopment has everything to do with a choice made generations ago to reject its own Constitutional traditions and sink into the cesspool of empire over the dead body of John F Kennedy.<\/p>\n

(first published July 16, 2022, in Rising Tide Foundation by Matthew Ehret)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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