French "Pluton" NukeRe: US-China rivalry intensifies
[we are beginning to identify the geo-political and geo-economic dynamics that are leading towards what in plain "marxist" was once called "interimperialist war". so far we are dealing only with the symbolic (diplomatic jujitsu and trade/monetary policies); but inevitably tensions will escalate to the point of a shooting war sometime this decade (i say well before 2015). alongside the south china sea/taiwan; other possible flashpoints could be the caucasus, the AfPak snakepit, and the korean penninsula (specifically the disputed yellow sea border zone)... these are the four geographical points where the political and economic interests of the three power blocs that emerged in the last decade intersect and clash. the Anglo-Saxon Powers (USA plus UK-CAN-AUS-NZ) have an interest in containing the growth of Shanghai Pact (China plus Russia) influence in natural resource wealthy regions of Central Asia ; while keeping the Franco-German Entente ("Europe") from challenging Anglo-Saxon leadership of The West. The Shanghai Pact has an interest in rolling back Atlantist influence over Eurasia and achieving the economic absorption of Japan into the Chinese dominated East Asian economic zone. the main project of the Franco-German Entente is to decouple "Europe" (a political and economic projection of German capital over the continent), from the tutelage of the United States. Germany also envisions the transformation of OSCE into its own "NATO". already the French and German armies have been integrated and their intelligence services run in sync. during the naughties, the Germans have succeeded in the peaceful restoration of Vichy France. Berlin does not need to develop a nuclear arsenal, because it de facto inherited a veto over 'la force de frappe' and its 300 pluton missiles... this fact is an open secret...- n2]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j09.shtml
"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. Those illusions have rapidly evaporated this year, as the Obama administration signals a far harder line toward China with a series of provocative moves, including the sale of advanced weapons to Taiwan and a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama. These significant symbolic steps follow the imposition of hefty US tariffs on a range of Chinese goods, from steel pipes and steel-grate to tyres...Washington is no doubt driven by a growing sense that its economic and strategic interests are being increasingly blocked by Beijing. Obama’s much-vaunted trip to China last November was widely regarded as a failure: his call for an appreciation of the yuan against the dollar was ignored and in return he received a lecture on the need for financial rectitude to ensure China’s continued purchase of US bonds. At the Copenhagen climate summit, the US was opposed by a bloc led by China that pointedly snubbed Obama when he arrived to pull together a deal."
Re: EU-China tensions on display at joint summit
[there is no agreement on the issue of chinese currency revaluation. the chinese refuse to unpeg the yuan from the US dollar. and they have a point. doing so would subject the chinese export driven economy to shrinkage. the Obama regime is allowing for dollar deflation precisely to make its enormous debt less burdensome at the expense of creditors in china, japan and europe. the chinese policy of keeping the dollar peg is to partially immunise its economy to the effects of the monetary policies of the Obama regime. by calling for the revaluation of the yuan; the financial oligarchies that rule the Franco-German entente want to put a break on Chinese growth, as China is set to overtake Japan as the wolds second largest economy this decade. Chinese growth has already surpassed Germany, relegating the Franco-German led "Eurozone" to third place in the geo-economic hierarchy. -n2]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/euch-d04.shtml
"The 12th European Union-China summit on November 30 in the Chinese city of Nanjing failed to produce any agreement on key issues, including, particularly from Europe’s standpoint, any revaluation of the Chinese currency...Both the EU and China are confronting mounting economic and political pressures as a result of the global financial crisis and economic downturn. EU trade has been hit by the weakening US dollar, which has undermined European exports. At the same time, because the yuan is tied to the dollar, the euro has continued to appreciate against the Chinese currency, further disadvantaging European exporters. Significantly, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter in the first half of 2009..."
[we are beginning to identify the geo-political and geo-economic dynamics that are leading towards what in plain "marxist" was once called "interimperialist war". so far we are dealing only with the symbolic (diplomatic jujitsu and trade/monetary policies); but inevitably tensions will escalate to the point of a shooting war sometime this decade (i say well before 2015). alongside the south china sea/taiwan; other possible flashpoints could be the caucasus, the AfPak snakepit, and the korean penninsula (specifically the disputed yellow sea border zone)... these are the four geographical points where the political and economic interests of the three power blocs that emerged in the last decade intersect and clash. the Anglo-Saxon Powers (USA plus UK-CAN-AUS-NZ) have an interest in containing the growth of Shanghai Pact (China plus Russia) influence in natural resource wealthy regions of Central Asia ; while keeping the Franco-German Entente ("Europe") from challenging Anglo-Saxon leadership of The West. The Shanghai Pact has an interest in rolling back Atlantist influence over Eurasia and achieving the economic absorption of Japan into the Chinese dominated East Asian economic zone. the main project of the Franco-German Entente is to decouple "Europe" (a political and economic projection of German capital over the continent), from the tutelage of the United States. Germany also envisions the transformation of OSCE into its own "NATO". already the French and German armies have been integrated and their intelligence services run in sync. during the naughties, the Germans have succeeded in the peaceful restoration of Vichy France. Berlin does not need to develop a nuclear arsenal, because it de facto inherited a veto over 'la force de frappe' and its 300 pluton missiles... this fact is an open secret...- n2]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j09.shtml
"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. Those illusions have rapidly evaporated this year, as the Obama administration signals a far harder line toward China with a series of provocative moves, including the sale of advanced weapons to Taiwan and a planned meeting with the Dalai Lama. These significant symbolic steps follow the imposition of hefty US tariffs on a range of Chinese goods, from steel pipes and steel-grate to tyres...Washington is no doubt driven by a growing sense that its economic and strategic interests are being increasingly blocked by Beijing. Obama’s much-vaunted trip to China last November was widely regarded as a failure: his call for an appreciation of the yuan against the dollar was ignored and in return he received a lecture on the need for financial rectitude to ensure China’s continued purchase of US bonds. At the Copenhagen climate summit, the US was opposed by a bloc led by China that pointedly snubbed Obama when he arrived to pull together a deal."
Re: EU-China tensions on display at joint summit
[there is no agreement on the issue of chinese currency revaluation. the chinese refuse to unpeg the yuan from the US dollar. and they have a point. doing so would subject the chinese export driven economy to shrinkage. the Obama regime is allowing for dollar deflation precisely to make its enormous debt less burdensome at the expense of creditors in china, japan and europe. the chinese policy of keeping the dollar peg is to partially immunise its economy to the effects of the monetary policies of the Obama regime. by calling for the revaluation of the yuan; the financial oligarchies that rule the Franco-German entente want to put a break on Chinese growth, as China is set to overtake Japan as the wolds second largest economy this decade. Chinese growth has already surpassed Germany, relegating the Franco-German led "Eurozone" to third place in the geo-economic hierarchy. -n2]
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/euch-d04.shtml
"The 12th European Union-China summit on November 30 in the Chinese city of Nanjing failed to produce any agreement on key issues, including, particularly from Europe’s standpoint, any revaluation of the Chinese currency...Both the EU and China are confronting mounting economic and political pressures as a result of the global financial crisis and economic downturn. EU trade has been hit by the weakening US dollar, which has undermined European exports. At the same time, because the yuan is tied to the dollar, the euro has continued to appreciate against the Chinese currency, further disadvantaging European exporters. Significantly, China overtook Germany as the world’s largest exporter in the first half of 2009..."
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