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Asian Pivot
The Asian NATO-Like Project Against China: How To Offset Obama’s “Pivot To Asia” – OpEd
By Andrew Korybko *Part I The US’ Pivot to Asia (P2A) is obviously aimed against China, and Washington’s ultimate plan has always been to assemble a coalition of countries that can contain the global supergiant. As the Pivot enters into its fourth year soon, the contours of the Chinese Containment Coalition (CCC) are beginning to take … Continue reading
U.S. Defence Secretary Sets Stage For Confrontation With China
By Peter Symonds In the lead-up to this weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter on Wednesday bluntly declared that the US would continue its military provocations against China in the South China Sea. The Pentagon deliberately inflamed tensions with Beijing last week by allowing a CNN news crew to fly on board a … Continue reading
China Not Impressed With Obama’s Asia Pivot
By Marc Moussalli America’s pivot to Asia has been discussed widely since the strategy was unveiled in President Obama’s speech to the Australian Parliament in 2011. Although many other global strategic issues needed to be addressed since then, it is interesting to revisit the rebalancing because Obama’s rhetoric can be used as a prism through … Continue reading
Russia Turns East In Putin’s New Asian Pivot
By Artyom Lukin Facing trouble on its western borders, Russia is pinning its hopes on the East. Moscow has initiated its own Asian pivot, making efforts to cultivate political allies and economic partners in Asia. This eastward drive has been in the making for quite a while. In the second half of the 2000’s, Moscow began … Continue reading
The U.S. Is Juggling Chaos And Coordination In Order To Contain China – OpEd
By Andrew Korybko It’s no secret by now that the US is dead set on containing China, yet it’s shying away from engaging in a direct confrontation with it. Instead, the US is managing a dual policy of creating chaos along China’s western and southwest reaches, while coordinating a containment alliance along its southeastern and northeastern … Continue reading
De-Dollarization Intensifies: America’s European “Allies” Desert Obama, Join China-Led Infrastructure Bank
This article was originally published on Zero Hedge By Tyler Durden It appears the sea of de-dollarization has reached the shores of Europe. With Australia and UK having already moved in the direction of joining the China-led AIIB, The FT reports that France, Germany, and Italy have now all agreed to join the development bank as ‘pivot to Asia’ appears to … Continue reading
U.S. Ramps Up Anti-China “Pivot To Asia”
By Peter Symonds The latest US maritime strategic document, “A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready,” released yesterday, makes clear that Washington is pressing ahead with its “pivot to Asia” and military build-up against China. In doing so, the US is continuing to stoke up tensions in the East and South China seas, … Continue reading
How Vladimir Putin Blocked The U.S. Pivot To Asia – OpEd
By Mike Whitney On February 10, 2007, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech at the 43rd Munich Security Conference that created a rift between Washington and Moscow that has only deepened over time. The Russian President’s blistering hour-long critique of US foreign policy provided a rational, point-by-point indictment of US interventions around the world and their … Continue reading
The Real Story On Iran, U.S., Russia, And China – OpEd
By Pepe Escobar, Sputnik News The real story is, and will continue to be, how Iran, the key power in Southwest Asia, is about to be positioned in the nonstop complex ballet between the US, Russia and China. That’s one of the key vectors of the New Great Game in Eurasia. The real story was never … Continue reading
As China Becomes World’s New Industrial Super-Power: Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” And The Military Encirclement Of China
By Eric Sommer Obama’s recent visit to India netted a trove of economic, military, and nuclear power agreements with India. The visit – and the agreements – underscored the attempt by the U.S. state to utilize its ‘pivot to Asia’ to create military and economic alliances with other Asian nations in order to encircle and … Continue reading
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