Pepe Escobar
It will take ages to unpack the silos of information inbuilt in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, coupled with the – armored - train-keeps-a-rollin’ conducted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un straddling every nook and cranny of Primorsky Krai.
The key themes all reflect the four main vectors of the New Great Game as it’s being played across the Global South: energy and energy resources; manufacturing and labor; market and trade rules; and logistics. But they go way beyond – exploring the subtle nuances of the current civilizational war.
Key statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his address to delegates at the Eastern Economic Forum:
The global economy continues to change, primarily because the West is tearing down the system of financial relations;
Amid the destruction of the financial system by the West, the list of countries that are ready to cooperate not based on Western conventions, but for all humanity, is expanding;
The dynamics of investment in the Far East is three times faster than for all of Russia in its entirety;
Most regions in the Far Eastern Federal District still face energy shortages, and this is a problem; a large-scale update of this industry is needed;
It is necessary to expand logistics routes in the Far East, including the Northern Sea Route;
High-speed highways will pass through Siberia, the Far East to the Pacific Ocean;
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a comprehensive action plan to be prepared by 1 March for the development of the air complex of the Far Eastern Federal District;
Constantly enhancing the conditions for doing business in the Far East is a must;
The global economic situation has invigorated our work in the Far East;
The restriction of payments in dollars has driven all countries to set their sights on payments in national currencies, while trust in the West is being eroded;
Today, logistics chains for the supply of goods have almost recovered, and by the same token, this is due to the exchange rate;
We must come to an agreement with the business community, so that they understand that it is safer to work in Russia.
The global economy continues to change, primarily because the West is tearing down the system of financial relations;
Amid the destruction of the financial system by the West, the list of countries that are ready to cooperate not based on Western conventions, but for all humanity, is expanding;
The dynamics of investment in the Far East is three times faster than for all of Russia in its entirety;
Most regions in the Far Eastern Federal District still face energy shortages, and this is a problem; a large-scale update of this industry is needed;
It is necessary to expand logistics routes in the Far East, including the Northern Sea Route;
High-speed highways will pass through Siberia, the Far East to the Pacific Ocean;
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a comprehensive action plan to be prepared by 1 March for the development of the air complex of the Far Eastern Federal District;
Constantly enhancing the conditions for doing business in the Far East is a must;
The global economic situation has invigorated our work in the Far East;
The restriction of payments in dollars has driven all countries to set their sights on payments in national currencies, while trust in the West is being eroded;
Today, logistics chains for the supply of goods have almost recovered, and by the same token, this is due to the exchange rate;
We must come to an agreement with the business community, so that they understand that it is safer to work in Russia.
So Vladivostok presented…
- A serious debate on the surge of anti-neocolonialism, presented for instance by the Myanmar delegation; geostrategically, Burma/Myanmar, as a privileged gateway to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, was always an object of Divide and Rule games, with the British Empire only caring about extracting natural resources. This is what “scientific colonialism” is all about.
- A serious debate on the concept of the civilization-state, as already developed by Chinese and Russian scholars, applied to China, Russia, India and Iran.
- The common Eurasia payment system, discussed in detail in one of the key panels: Greater Eurasia: Drivers for the Formation of an Alternative International and Monetary and Financial System. The immense challenge to set up a new payment settlement currency against “toxic currencies” instrumentalized amid relentless Hybrid War. In another panel, the possibility of a timely BRICS and EAEU joint summit next year has been evoked.
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