Pepe Escobar — New Silk Roads and an Alternate Eurasian Century

A New Future? How China and Russia (and Maybe Germany) Will Try Squeeze Washington Out of Eurasia

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There is significant resistance to the TTIP among many EU nations (especially in the Club Med countries of southern Europe), as there is against the TPP among Asian nations (especially Japan and Malaysia). It is this that gives the Chinese and the Russians hope for their new Silk Roads and a new style of trade across the Eurasian heartland backed by a Russian-supported Eurasian Union. To this, key figures in German business and industrial circles, for whom relations with Russia remain essential, are paying close attention.

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A Beijing-Moscow-Berlin alliance is cooking

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