During a joint press conference in Beijing in 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Barack Obama: “The Pacific Ocean is broad enough to accommodate the development of both China and the United States, and for our two countries to work together to contribute to security in Asia. These are mutually complementary efforts instead of mutually exclusive ones. China and the U.S. should continue to enhance dialogue and coordination on Asia-Pacific affairs, and respect and accommodate each other’s interests and concerns in this region, and develop inclusive coordination.”
These words have suddenly taken on a new meaning in the wake of the Aug. 31-Sept. 1 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and what was likely the largest military parade in modern history in Beijing on Sept. 3. Contrary to the strategic nitwits in Washington and Brussels, the world is big enough for the mutual development of all nations, no matter how different their political, economic, or social systems are. But what the world is not big enough for is the arbitrary suppression of others based on the presumption of superiority. In other words, the Global Minority in the U.S. and Europe must either learn to adapt and cooperate with the rest of the Global Majority, or mankind’s continued survival on this planet will be in doubt.
As the events in China earlier this week proved, many in the Global Majority are hoping for collaboration, but will move forward no matter what. Unfolding now in Eastern Russia is the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, which runs from Sep. 3-6 under the theme, “The Far East: Cooperation for Peace and Prosperity.” Far from Russia being isolated, there are participants from more than 70 countries discussing the coming massive shift toward the East. Alexey Chekunkov, the Russian Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic, told RT that there are currently 3,800 investment projects underway across Russia’s East and Arctic totaling $148 billion. These regions are now seeing 3.3 times greater economic growth than Russia as a whole. In trade, the investments in Russian ports have led to a 40% increase in foreign trade, including a whopping tenfold increase in cargo volume over the past decade. This is the context in which the EEF is meeting.
These developments make almost laughable the lectures by the European war fanatics, whose economies are in a state of utter collapse, but who nonetheless feel they can make new threats and demands. French President Emmanuel Macron threatened Russia that 26 European nations are prepared to send troops to Ukraine to provide security guarantees, and that if Russia doesn’t agree to a ceasefire, then even more sanctions will be imposed. Such statements fail completely to understand the actual state of affairs in the world. As one academic, who is no fan of the nations of Eurasia, told the Washington Post: “The world is much bigger than the West, and if the West doesn’t wish to engage, the rest of the world moves on.”
But this growing divide need not be the case. As President Xi Jinping said in 2014, the countries of the West are eagerly invited to walk hand-in-hand with the developing world in creating a fairer and more just order. Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev again expressed this on Sept. 3 when he said that investments into Russia’s Far East “should not be divided into Russian-Chinese or Russian-U.S.,” but rather should be “joint Russia-China-U.S. projects.” Indeed, China’s recently reported intention to surpass the United States in nuclear power generation is not an anti-American act but an optimistic orientation for the future, and would be the perfect opportunity for a collaborative renaissance in nuclear and thermonuclear fusion science worldwide!
The world has reached a punctum saliens. The fact that mankind is not an animal demands that we no longer be held back by anti-human rules imposed by those who seek to control whole nations and peoples. The potential future collaboration for the development of the Arctic, in nuclear and thermonuclear fusion power, and beyond, portends new and profound changes for the conditions of humanity worldwide. Let us end this dying oligarchical system and seize our true destiny.
