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Australia: Populate and We Will PerishChina mildly rejected the idea of American-Chinese joint management of the world
During Obama’s visit to Beijing last year, China mildly rejected the idea of American-Chinese joint management of the world that is popular with the Obama team. It does not matter what was said during the visit. The real reasons are important: Washington still believes that “joint management” means that it will play first fiddle and China only second. China will wait for America to get rid of this illusion, which shouldn’t take very long. Read more
New order is needed if major global issues are to be resolved
Another major issue President Obama has promised to take on is climate change and global warming. During the much-advertized summit in Copenhagen on the issue, he was hoping to appear as a global dealmaker, to broker compromises among world leaders and achieve an agreement to save the planet. Read more
Kissinger says Obama primed to create New World Order
The video below is of Henry Kissinger on CNBC. He states the various political and economic crises currently conflicting the world offer Obama an opportunity to create a “new world order.” Kissinger is the former US Secretary of State and he told CNBC host Mark Haines this on January 5, 2009. Read more
The west can no longer dominate, given its partial loss of moral authority
So which region will now occupy the moral high ground? Certainly not the developing east, for its social institutions are pathetic. But given the moral retreat of the west, the two sides are now on an equal footing. The preaching by the west must stop.
The second rebalancing has to do with decision-making in global economic affairs. The west can no longer dominate, given its partial loss of moral Read more
Domination of land, sea, air, cyberspace, outer space, militarization of outer space
JAY: You could argue the other way, though. You could argue getting bogged down in Afghanistan and having thousands of troops and another trillion dollars down the toilet, that in the long term actually weakens US positioning vis-à-vis Eurasia. I mean, they’ve had a dominant position in Eurasia for decades without having any bases in Afghanistan. Read more
Global Order of Great Powers
Some proponents of this view believe that the president is moving slowly but steadily toward building a somewhat more democratic global order of great powers – including emerging giants, as well as longstanding heavyweights. This would permit an increasingly cash-strapped Washington to gradually devolve some of its more costly responsibilities to other states and international institutions while retaining its “indispensable” status. Read more
American power might indeed be in decline
In the coming decade, we can expect that power will continue to be diffused rather than concentrated in the world. But, as Richard Haass noticed, “This is not all bad news for the United States: the United States still retains more capacity than any other actor to improve the quality of the international system and Washington can still manage the transition and make the world a safer place.”
The challenge for the United States, however, is to understand the limits of America’s reach and to embed America’s hard power in a new form of “soft Read more
Obama will take ‘war on terror’ to Yemen
According to a report aired on 18 December by the American ABC News network and not denied by the White House, US and Yemeni government forces jointly targeted al-Qaida training camps in the Arhab district, 60km north-east of the capital, Sana’a on 17 December. Another alleged camp in the village of al-Maajala, in Abyan, 480km south-east of Sana’a, was also hit after US officials determined “an imminent attack against a US asset was being planned” there. Read more
Power Structures of New World Order Just Emerging
Writing in the FT, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, senior director for policy and programmes at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, said the climate conference heralded an “age of transition” in international relations. “Decisive action is inhibited as the power structures of a new world order are only just emerging and thus produce insecurities about where power rests,” he said. “Copenhagen was multipolarity as chaos.” Read more
Familiar tests for new world order
WHEN FORMER US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski floated the idea in January of a US-China Group of Two (G2) to address the international financial crisis, tackle climate change, limit the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and maybe even engage jointly in the Middle East peace process, he gave a name to a theme that would come to be the leitmotif of 2009. It was a tipping point year in which the ascent of China economically and politically made it the indispensable partner. At times, however, it was a reluctant one, challenged to live up to its own Copenhagen mantra, a commitment to global “common but differentiated responsibilities”. Read more