Alexander Salitski (Russia) The planned December 15 opening of the rouble-yuan trading in Russia is a symbolic and potentially historical event. It reflects tectonic shifts in the world’s economy and politics and accordingly promises a transformation of the global financial architecture. At the moment China’s contribution to the global economy […]
East Asia
China and US: a Clash of Interests
Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) Two events which had been anticipated for quite long took place in the U.S. shortly before the G20 summit in Seoul. On 2 November the Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives, and on 3 November the U.S. Federal Reserve announced that it would pump […]
China and India Are Radically Changing the World Situation
Mikhail Khazin (Russia) The idea of “divide and conquer” is very simple. Someone owns a unique resource and arranges an intense competition for access to it. US domination has been based on a very simple resource—access to demand by US citizens—which lets those who have it reap enormous profits. By […]
Yuan, Dollar, and the Future of Global Leadership
Elena Pustovoitova (Russia) The US Congress finally ran out of patience after years of coercing China into the yuan appreciation and passed a bill authorizing the US Chamber of Commerce to slap punitive duties on Chinese imports. The very next day Beijing responded by propelling the yuan to the dollar […]
The Sufferings of a Chinaman in China
Konstantin PENZEV (Russia) If someone had asked me a month ago, “Who Is Liu Xiaobo?” I would have answered: “I don’t know, but judging by the name, he’s probably Chinese.” And if someone had asked me a month ago, “What is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded for?” I’d have said: […]
A Nobel Peace Prize Awarded for the Collapse of China
Kirill Govorov (Russia) “Si vis pacem, para bellum”—if you wish peace, prepare for war. Apparently, the jokers on the Royal committee in Norway are guided by that ancient adage as time after time they award the Nobel Peace Prize to political and social figures whose contribution to world peace is […]
US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict
Alexander SALITZKI (Russia) Debates between the US and China over the valuation of the yuan are currently gathering momentum. A new campaign of pressure on Beijing is initiated by the US Congress which proposed a bill authorizing the government to slap duties on China’s imports based on the view that […]
The Uyghur Project
The bloody riots in China’s autonomous regions (the Tibet and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regions) that broke out during 2008-2009 invariably produced an international reaction from Western governments, human rights organizations, and ethnic and Western nongovernmental civic organizations. They reveal a clear-cut tendency towards consolidation of activities by Tibetan and Uyghur […]
Is Guam Ready to Accept the US Military Bases from Okinawa?
Sofya Pale (Russia) With a meeting between US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan held on September 23, the media has begun saying that one of the main topics of discussion was the transfer of one third of the US military bases on the Japanese island of […]
Hiroshima 65 Years Later
Alexander Dobrovolsky (Russia) Sixty five years have passed since Aug 6, 1945 when the American B-29 flown by Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbets dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima. According to various estimates, it exploded with an energy equivalent to 15-18 thousand pounds of TNT, about […]
The Conundrum of the South Korean Corvette (II)
Alexander VORONTSOV, Oleg REVENKO (Russia) Part 1 The report on the sinking of S. Korea’s Cheonan corvette claiming that the tragedy had been caused by a torpedo fired by a N. Korean submarine caused further escalation on the Korean Peninsula. In a strongly worded address to the nation on May […]
BRIC: Illusion or Reality
Andrei VOLODIN (Russia) Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria has distinguished “tectonic shifts” in the world’s economics and politics that divide the last 500 years into three unequal stages: (1) the rise of the West, which began in the 15th century and saw a “dramatic” acceleration at the end of the 18th century […]
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