BRICS will write and chart the rules of the New World Order

For the last few hundred years, the West have ruled the world and wrote the rules for international relations and trade. Obama set up the TTP just to do that, to write the new rules for international trade. The Americans would want to set the rules for the rest of the world. The Bretton Woods financial system, the IMF, World Bank, the UN, were all set up by the West with rules dictated by them in their own interests and favour.

The increasing aggressiveness of the Americans and the West to dominate and bully the rest of the world with their wars and abrasive sanctions and weaponising the dollar and financial system have in a way propelled the BRICS countries and the organisation into the limelight. The world cannot tolerate the bullying of the Americans and the West and wanted to be treated more fairly, to be treated as equals. BRICS, SCO are among the two new organisations that are seen as the New Hope for the rest of the world to co exist in a fairer and interdependent world, not a world dominated and dictated by the West. 

For the first time, BRICS countries are now sitting at the top table and starting to write a new set of rules for the New World. The first and most urgent task is to create a new world currency to replace the US dollar created by the Bretton Woods meeting by the white men. For the first time, the countries of the world would want to write their own rules, fairer rules for the developing countries of the world. The BRICS countries, some have GDPs in the top 10 countries of the world, but not invited to join the G7, seen as non participants or passengers in the current world order, would now be sitting in their own top table without the G7, to call the shot. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, to be joined by several other major developing countries, would now be in the driving seat to write a new set of rules for themselves, for the rest of the world, in the interests of the rest of the world.

No longer would the fate and future of the rest of the world be dictated by the G7, by the Americans and the West. This new found power and confidence and new found roles of BRICS would determine what the world would be like going into the future. The developing countries would now have a say, the BRICS countries would now have a say, not only be seen but not heard like before. This is only proper and equitable. The BRICS countries have 40% of the world's population and 30% of the world's GDP against 12% of the world's population and 25% of the world's GDP of the developed world. With more developing countries joining BRICS,  the numbers could only go higher and its importance increases proportionally.

No longer would the few developed countries be deciding on the interests of the rest of the world anymore.The rest of the world would decide for themselves what is good for themselves. No longer would the coloured people play second fiddle to the white men, to be cast aside by the white men as insignificant, as non players, without a say in world affairs, in writing the rules of the world.

The more the countries of the world understand how they have been shortchanged by the white men, the more would be in a hurry to join the BRICS countries and the SCO. The world could only become fairer and better in a new world when every nation has an equal say in the common future of the world.

The rest of the world, the coloured people, no longer need to be kept waiting outside the white men's door hoping to be invited in, hoping for some compassion, generosity and charity from the white men, or to be dismissed, threatened, bullied and pushed around by them.

Flaws and Fantasies of the Biden Doctrine

 US President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy is an amalgam of his predecessors’ doctrines.

It claims the role of an indispensable global leader like Bush Sr and embraces a Manichaean view of the world — democracy vs autocracy, good vs evil — like Ronald Reagan and George W Bush. It promotes the gospel of free democracy and open markets like Bill Clinton, and suggests that like, Barack Obama, Biden is ready to cooperate and negotiate with “rogue regimes”. It even underlines an America First approach that prioritises domestic spending and investment — through massive borrowing.

No easy feat; no less after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has complicated the NSS final draft and delayed its publication by several months.

To paraphrase Mike Tyson: “Everyone has a strategy until they are punched in the face.”

So, where this pompous exercise in grandeur falls short on coherence, it makes up with easy cliches about the indispensable nation’s role in the creation of a prosperous and inclusive world.

From the outset, Biden makes a number of fanciful — even delusional — assumptions about US world leadership.

"Around the world, the need for American leadership is as great as it has ever been, because no nation is better positioned to lead with strength and purpose than the United States of America.”

Such assumptions may have been true in the post-Cold War period but can no longer be justified — not after three decades of failures and fiascos, over-reaction and later over-reach; and not after the country’s recent retreat and retrenchment from the global stage.

Yet, the NSS pronounces that “we must proactively shape the international order in line with our interests and values”. There’s no escape from American righteousness, even when those liberal values are backsliding at home and abroad.

Every time the United States leads by the example of its power, it compromises the power of its example, alas.

At the heart of the newly unveiled strategy lies a clearly stated dual challenge to American national security: a geopolitical threat from China and Russia, and global threats — climate change, terrorism, new pandemics and food insecurity.

For the long term, the Biden administration is preoccupied mainly with a rising China. In the immediate, it is focused on the Russian threat to European security. It believes these autocracies are working overtime to undermine democracy and export a model of governance marked by repression at home and coercion abroad. All of this, of course, hinders the indispensable multilateral cooperation needed to tackle common transnational dangers that know no borders or geography.

To resolve this paradox, the NSS proposes to preserve and increase international cooperation in an age of competition … within the rules-based international order and while working to strengthen international institutions.

Hence, Biden claims not to seek “a new Cold War” with China, but rather reaffirms America’s One China policy, and makes clear that Washington does not support Taiwan’s independence.

But China and Russia view America’s rules-based international order as the incarnation of US imperialism. They pay attention mainly to what the US does — not to what Biden says.

They regard US strategic containment, military buildup, and alliance formation and expansion with alarm and hostility that will certainly undermine the cooperation and coordination needed to meet global challenges.

Another problem is the NSS’s choice of resources and methods to achieve its objectives. It speaks of a desire to build a free, open, prosperous, and secure international order where people can enjoy their basic, universal rights and freedoms.

However, to achieve such a worthy objective, the US plans to grow its power, amplify its influence through international coalitions, and modernise and strengthen its military. This comes even as the US already spends more on its military than the next nine biggest spenders, all of which are its allies.

The Biden administration speaks as a healer but acts like a hammer, believing the US could and should act as the world’s policeman, despite a long and bloody history.

There are the contradictions between US nuclear modernisation and non-proliferation. The NSS commits to modernise the country’s nuclear Triad and related infrastructure, while at the same time, speaking of verifiable arms control and the global non-proliferation regime.

The US persists in its violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty that requires nuclear powers to pursue disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

The same goes for values and interests that do not usually align with foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, where the Biden administration has been shoring up autocracies and rallying them against Russia, all in the name of democracy.

The NSS also commits the United States to proactively integrate Israel into the region, albeit at the expense of Palestinians and Arab rights. It mentions the two-state solution as the better option, but in practice it panders to Israel.

Like Obama’s so-called “leading from behind” approach, Biden proposes cooperation and support to trusted partners, shifting from a strategy that is “US-led, partner-enabled” to one that is “partner-led, US-enabled”.

This is an overly ambitious strategy with major faults and fantasies. It will give comfort to America’s friends looking for protection and support from the benevolent superpower, but will also provide ammunition to America’s detractors regarding its aggressive imperialist agenda.

If the “political art of creating power”, than the balance of power would suggest, then this National Security Strategy is a masterpiece in theory.

In practice, it confirms what we’ve known for a millennium: When a rising power challenges a dominant power, it is time to put on the seat belts.

Anonymous

Western media - Sick of the propaganda trotted out by the USA and the West.

You really get sick of the propaganda trotted out by the USA and the West.

As if influence, coercion, dicatates and threats can only be made by the USA and the West and other countries are forbidden to follow them in any way.

China's rise in influence over Asia, Africa, South America is not allowed and China's attempts to forge alliance with the Pacific Islands is strongly resisted. Not by the Islanders, but by the USA, Australia and the West exerting forceful policies towards the Islanders.

China's rise is also not allowed and must be stopped from overtaking the USA. It is overtaking the USA that is the crux of the issue, not the interest of other countries or even the EU. The USA tried trade war and obviously failed. They tried biological warfare with the introduction of the COVID19 virus in Wuhan during the Military Games in 2019, but failed to decimate the Chinese population. Now, it is trying the technological war against China, and bringing in the whole world together against China in chips and semi-conductor manufacturing. This is similarly going to fail and will bring down many chip manufacturers and chip equipment makers, once China succeeded to be self reliant.

Today, the gun is pointed at Putin, by the USA and the West, claiming that he is attempting to influence 'Anti-Western' mindsets among Asian countries. Imagine the devil saying what they themselves had been doing for centuries, using the UN, IMF, World Bank and NGOs they funded to influence mindsets against Russia and China and communism in general.

Today, issues against Russia or China go beyond communism and includes mainly human rights, an issue they could exploit to no end. Their self defined 'Rule of Law' uses human rights for all it's attacks on countries they could not control. African leaders have seen though the ploy.

African leaders, in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have all come out to bash the USA and West for trying to impose their definition of human rights in African countries. The BBC in particular was singled out for it's attempts to educate them on Western human rights issues in Africa. These African leaders told the BBC that they know what human rights is, and do not need the Brits or the BBC to tell them how to run their country. They themselves have tasted the wholesale abuse of human rights in the hands of the Anglo Saxon Whites before, like the days when Blacks were kidnapped to work as slaves for the Whites in the USA. The White's colonisation of Africa resulted in the massive plunder of resources and left the continent poor and backward, until today. China meanwhile is trying to correct the insanity left behind by the Whites.

Anonymous 

Covid19 - Singaporeans are so lucky

Ong Ye Kung

October 11 at 7:17 PM

Ministry of Health, Singapore is bringing forward the rollout of the bivalent Moderna/Spikevax vaccine by a few days to 14 Oct.

This is because our operations teams were able to complete their preparations earlier, and there are benefits to administering early given infections are rising due to the XBB Omicron subvariant.

There is no evidence showing that XBB causes more severe illness. So please beware of falsehoods that are circulating.

I encourage individuals aged 50 and above, or persons have yet to achieve minimum protection, to take the bivalent vaccine.

Minister Gan Kim Yong and I went to the Commonwealth Joint Testing and Vaccination Centre today to observe the preparations and received our bivalent vaccine shot. It is safe and works better against Omicron in protecting you against severe illness.

Stay up-to-date with your vaccination!

Go to https://www.gowhere.gov.sg/vaccine to locate your nearest JTVC.

Anonymous 

I said Singaporeans are so lucky for 3 reasons. 

1. We are able to buy the world's best vaccines from the world's best pharma manufacturer, Pfizer, to vaccinate our people. Free some more. 

2. The second reason is that our experts do not simply believe in the manufacturers, but also do the due diligence, do our own testings to make sure the vaccines are as good as what the manufacturers claimed to be. That is the reason why the govt is pushing out the new bivalent vaccines so fast to the people to be jabbed or boostered. This one likely to be as good as the 96% efficacy vaccines that Singaporeans and the rest of the western world were jabbed.

3. To assure the people that the vaccines are not only good but also safe, two ministers have offered themselves as the guinea pigs, got themselves jabbed with the bivalent vaccine. See, if anything wrong, we die first, we die for you. This is putting the money where the mouth is.

Singaporeans are truly very very lucky to have such brave and unselfish ministers. Now you know why they deserved every cent, oops, I mean every million dollars paid to them.

Singaporeans should go for the jabs as recommended by the ministers and can sleep well.

PS. No thank you. I am very happy with my Sinopharm vaccine and would stick to it if needed. Hope no more compulsion for people to be boostered.  I got damn pissed off when it is by compulsion or coercion.

US mid term election - more rhetoric against imaginary enemies

 

With the USA mid-term November election closing in, there will be more rhetorics coming out from Washington, Brussels and Ukraine. Every day, we hear of the USA providing more help to Ukraine and carrying out more terrorist attacks as well. What help is Sleepy Joe doing for the homeless and downtrodden in the USA?

After the Nord Stream 1 and 2 and Crimea Bridge sabotage failures, more desperate attempts will be made to shore up Biden's hopes in November. And that begs the question, what else he will do? The USA and EU have completely exhausted their sanctions capablities on Russia and are scrapping the bottom of the sanctions barrel. Most of their thousands of sanctions are irrelevant hubris to fool the world that Russia had been sanctioned to oblivion. They sanctioned dogs, cats, trees, music, and families of people they do not like. Does that rattle Putin? They sanctioned Kim and his predecessors for decades, and yet he is still able to fire missiles like fire crackers to scare the shit out of the Japs and South Koreans.

Some of the sanctions on Russia are ironically backfiring. Energy for one is causing undue hardship for the EU countries, but shhh...do not talk about the protest erupting in Germany. You may land in jail for talking about that. So much for freedom of expression and democratic principles.

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