The Vineyard of the Saker
Xi and Putin make the case for win-win vs. zero-sum
Pepe Escobar
Ji Pei takes the Howard Zinn approach (The People's History of the United States) to analysis of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
See also at VS
The triads, the Kuomintang and Hong Kong’s “democracy riots”
The triads, the Kuomintang and Hong Kong’s “democracy riots”
Ji Pei
See also (referred to by Pepe Escobar above)
MUNICH-ESQUE DAVOS
Rostislav Ishchenko
Also linked to previously but relevant here.
These speeches mark a turning point in world history. The present moment of the historical dialectic is driven in considerable part by unilateralism and multilateralism, unipolarism and multipolarism, and national sovereignty versus neoliberal globalization, win-win and zero-sum. While this is not new, these statement draw clear lines publicly.
Vladimir Putin's Speech at Davos (official English translation)
Session of Davos Agenda 2021 online forum
Also
Full text: Xi Jinping’s speech at the virtual Davos Agenda event (English translation)
27.01.2021 - CGTN China Global Television Network
"Growth" for the global NSEW is not win-win, it is death.
ReplyDeleteThese speeches mark a turning point in world history. The present moment of the historical dialectic is driven in considerable part by unilateralism and multilateralism, unipolarism and multipolarism, and national sovereignty versus neoliberal globalization, win-win and zero-sum. While this is not new, these statement draw clear lines publicly.
These speeches are meaningless. Everyone is trapped within the unsustainable paradigm of economic growth. As the climate crisis deepens, there will be a shift from globalism to nationalism to localism. Survival of our species will depend on what happens locally. Those unable to organize and feed themselves within a given locality, will perish. That is our happy future.
Elites and their mercenaries will be focused on saving their sorry asses. Hope for we, but not for thee. That's not something they can give a speech about.