We are experiencing “the emergence of a new era of Mankind, an era of peaceful cooperation based on the rapid economic development of each and every nation on the planet,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated today on her weekly webcast. The results of the two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tianjin, China, coupled with the Sept. 3 commemoration in Beijing of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in the Pacific in World War II, have ushered in that new era. The Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, running from Sept. 3-6, will deepen the process; as will the Sept. 8 BRICS video-conference summit called on short notice by Brazilian President Lula de Silva, who holds the 2025 Presidency of the BRICS, to discuss a coordinated response to Trump’s tariff warfare.
The expanded SCO and BRICS now represent a total of 38 countries (8 of them are in both groupings), whose combined population is about 6 billion people, or 75% of Mankind’s total population of 8 billion. They have proclaimed an end to 500 years of colonial exploitation, run today by the financial centers of London and Wall Street, and the intention of that Global Majority to create a “path of peaceful development, and join hands with the rest of the world to build a community with a shared future for humanity,” as Chinese President Xi Jinping stated in his brief address to the 80th anniversary commemoration. “Humanity rises and falls together,” Xi also stressed.
Xi presented his Global Governance Initiative at the SCO meeting as a policy approach to guide this forward motion, and Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed its significance in summarizing his evaluation of where things stand: “I believe they are extremely positive. The documents that have been adopted by all participants look to the future. In this context, I would like to point out China’s Global Governance Initiative. I believe that it has been advanced at the right time. More importantly, this initiative is aimed at promoting positive sentiments between the countries that attended the summit in China and our potential partners among the countries that are not willing today to proclaim their readiness for this partnership.”
Zepp-LaRouche emphasized today that “this emerging New International Economic Order represents a solution for the crises of war and underdevelopment, including for the United States and Europe.” She stressed that these are precisely the policies which, for over 50 years, she and the LaRouche movement have been fighting for, policies designed by her husband, Lyndon LaRouche.
What will such a new international security and development architecture look like? Putin special envoy Kirill Dmitriev—who played an important role in the Aug. 15 summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Alaska—told Zvezda television on Sept. 2: “Certainly, Russia is eyeing the opportunity of joint Russia-China-U.S. projects, including in the Arctic region, specifically in the energy sector also. We exactly see that projects should not be divided there into Russian-Chinese or Russian-U.S.,” he added. “We see joint investments are possible, including for Chinese and American investors, into joint projects, including in hydrocarbon projects in the Arctic.”
Such joint projects will be at the center of the discussion at Vladivostok, including the proposal to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait to unite Russia and the United States with a high-speed rail network—a project championed by LaRouche going back to 1978. Another topic will be the agreement signed at the SCO meeting between Russia, Mongolia and China to build the mammoth Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline which, as RT characterized it, will be a “seismic redirection” in global energy and geopolitics. The Yamal gas fields, which are the northern source feeding the pipeline, lie on a Russian peninsula in the Arctic Ocean which is directly on the Northern Sea Route which Russia and China are cooperating on developing.
The peaceful use of nuclear energy—first fission, and quickly thereafter fusion—is another critical area of cooperation among Russia, China … and the United States. President Putin told Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in their Sept. 2 bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the SCO summit, that “we can consider the possibility of cooperating with [the American company] Westinghouse the way you are suggesting,” in building a nuclear plant in Slovakia. Moreover, Putin has insisted that nuclear fusion and space exploration are the key to the future, as he stated in remarks to an Aug. 22 gathering of young workers in the Russian nuclear industry:
“We must set ambitious goals and strive to take a qualitative leap in developing our economy and indeed, civilization as a whole.… First and foremost, this includes work in controlled thermonuclear fusion…. Equally fruitful collaboration is needed for another large-scale project: the creation of a space system with a special power plant and a so-called space tug based on a nuclear power unit.”
Late last year, on Nov. 7, Putin stressed that the world that is coming into being is one striving for polyphony among cultures and civilizations: “It is my deep conviction that the only new international system possible is one embracing polyphony, where many tones and many musical themes are sounded together to form harmony. If you like, we are moving towards a world system that is going to be polyphonic rather than polycentric, one in which all voices are heard and, most importantly, absolutely must be heard.”
Listen to that thought, along with Lyndon LaRouche’s vision for mankind as expressed in the following excerpt from his Sept. 9, 2013 “Project Space: The Thesis":
“The immediately intended scope of the core of the newly projected project, reaches, primarily, from the area immediately west of the Mississippi, to the Pacific, and north to the Arctic; but also leads into great internal regions of East Asia. The scope and effect of this development will be enabled, not for warfare, but, by the means of peaceful uses of the set of intended thermonuclear-fusion programs which had been then, implicitly awaiting something like this present venture, since approximately the 1970s. The result will include the greatest, and most beneficial achievement in the expression of great works which had been ever achieved by mankind on planet Earth this far.”
