Silk Road

Remember the Scythians

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ScythiansIran as a SCO protagonist and at the center of the New Silk Roads restores it to a rightful historic role. By the middle of the first millennium B.C., Northern Iranians ruled the core of the steppes in Central Eurasia. By that time the Scythians had migrated into the Western steppe, while other steppe Iranians made inroads as far away as China.

Scythians – a Northern (or “East”) Iranian people – were not necessarily just fierce warriors. That’s a crude stereotype. Very few in the West know that the Scythians developed a sophisticated trade system, as described by Herodotus among others, linking Greece, Persia and China. Continue reading →

China, Geopolitics, And Debt Cancellation

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chinaJoseph P Farrell – Over the past few years we’ve seen the emergence of the BRICSA bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) rise to challenge the the global hegemony of the Anglosphere and the western financial system. It has not been met idly: former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who brought her country into the BRICSA bloc, was overturned in that country by what amounts to a Brazilian Senate-led coup d’etat alleging corruption charges against her admi  istration; Argentina, which under former President Fernandez de Kircher looked like it might join the alliance, elected a much more pro-western president; India and China are currently squaring off (again) over disputed territories along their borders. There are definitely cracks in the mortar of the BRICS.

But despite the pushback from the West, China (and Russia) have forged ahead with their plans for development of the new “silk road” project of China. Russia and China have both recently inked deals pledging to develop a very northern (read Arctic) version of the road, by-passing the troubled central Asian and Middle Eastern regions.

Both nations know, however, that the shift to land-based transport of most of the world’s trade is subject to interdiction from space, and equally, that in order to make their plans work, they have to have a secure system of international financial clearing, which again, will require a dramatic expansion of their space assets, and China has made it abundantly clear that it understands these implications of its plans. The USA knows all of this too, and hence, has moved in recent years to create space-based branches and command structures in its military. Continue reading →

By The Way, It’s Not Just Germany That’s Upset …

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japanJoseph P Farrell –  Sometimes I feel like I’m living in some sort of geopolitical time warp, or a teacup carnival ride, based not on whirling teacups, but whirling countries, all spinning around on an out of control machine called Brzezinski’s Folly. Brzezinski’s folly is a machine that runs on the assumption that, America being the “sole remaining superpower”, it can and should attempt to run the rest of the world, no matter what the cost…

…even if the cost means pushing powerful allies like Germany and Japan away.

Case in point: yesterday, you’ll recall, I blogged about my long-held, seldom-voiced suspicion that some sort of covert warfare has been going on between the USA and Germany for quite some time. I finally have been talking more openly about that suspicion, since it seems to be being confirmed by various German and European leaders, not the least of whom is Chancellorin Merkel herself.

But in sifting through this week’s emails, the other shoe dropped, in this article shared by Mr. J.C.; and as you read this, when was the last time you saw the Chinese Premier shaking hands with the Japanese Premier, and both men were smiling?

Even Japan Is Now Considering Joining China’s One Belt, One Road

I cannot get out of my head what a monumental symbol this picture is, notwithstanding the contents of the article itself. We cannot approximate the earthquake it signals, especially in the Orient. There is bad blood between China and Japan… the Rape of Nanking, the Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria and the establishment of a Japanese puppet state there under the de facto control of Field Marshal Terauchi. Then the plundering under Operation Golden Lilly. Nor was it all one-sided: the Chinese entry into the Korean war – Korea being a former Japanese colony – Mao’s bluster and threats…

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