The world is changing before our
eyes. Western imperialist regimes are being
exposed for the warmongers they are, and a
new multipolar order of partnership and
peace is emerging.
March 24, 2023:
Information Clearing House
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The historic summit this
week between the Russian and Chinese leaders
provoked paroxysms of angst in the Western
media. President Vladimir Putin’s hosting of
China’s Xi Jinping in Moscow was presented
as the “world’s two most prominent
autocrats” purportedly establishing a
hostile “anti-West axis”.
The American and European media –
slavishly echoing the talking points of
their imperialist regimes – were in
hyper-bogeyman mode. The meeting of Putin
and Xi was distorted in every way to appear
as something illegitimately threatening and
sinister to the Western “rules-based global
order” (euphemism for Western capitalist
privileges and predation.)
Bogeyman mode also entails collective
amnesia. The summit coincided with the 20th
anniversary of the U.S. and British
launching their war on Iraq – arguably the
biggest crime of the 21st century so far.
Yet this vile anniversary has hardly stirred
any Western media condemnation or shame,
never mind legal accountability.
The wanton cynicism towards the Putin-Xi
meeting belies the deep anxiety among the
U.S.-dominated clique of Western states that
the much-vaunted “rules-based order” is
collapsing. A collapse caused by its own
inherent corruption and systematic abuse of
power and international law over many
decades.
Both Putin and Xi emphasized that the
Russia-China alliance was not meant to
threaten any third party.
“We are always for peace and dialogue,”
said China’s President Xi who was in Russia
on a three-day state visit.
Putin hailed the highest point in
relations between Moscow and Beijing and
underscored the long historical friendship.
Both leaders said this was not simply an
extension of a Cold War-era alliance but
rather a harbinger of genuine multipolar
global development for all nations based on
partnership and cooperation, respecting
international law and national sovereignty.
Indeed, the much-anticipated multipolar
world order is coming to fruition as the
erstwhile dominance of Western elitist
unilateralism shrivels. The Russian and
Chinese leaders signed multiple trade deals
and furthered plans to use national
currencies, thereby making the unwarranted
privileges of the US dollar obsolete.
There is a palpable sense that the global
economy is moving in a tectonic shift
towards Eurasian partnership of vitality and
dynamic multipolar development,
foreshadowing a fateful demise for U.S.-led
Western capitalist hegemony. Western nations
are haunted by financial bankruptcy,
inequality, paralyzing debt, and dead-end
militarism.
Of particular note is the plan to build a
new gas pipeline from Russia to China dubbed
Power of Siberia 2. It will supply an
additional 50 billion cubic meters of
natural gas annually to China.
Significantly, this new supply route of
Russian energy matches the volume that had
been earmarked for the European Union with
the operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
– until the Biden administration blew it up.
Out of all the impressive partnership
deals signed in Moscow this week, the new
gas route to China speaks loudest. Russia
has decided to walk away from the ungrateful
Europeans and let them suffer the
consequences of industrial shutdown by
opting for expensive American gas.
Eurasian economic power is the fulcrum of
global development. Russia and China are
leading the way, not just for the rest of
Eurasia, but also for the Global South,
Latin America, Africa, and others. The
incremental moving away from the U.S. dollar
as fiat international currency is the most
ominous sign of the rise and fall. Russia
and China are hastening that fateful switch.
In a desperate bid to avert the
inevitable, the Western imperialist regimes
and their media tried to depict the Putin-Xi
summit as something sinister for global
security, in what amounts to be a reverse
projection of their own depredations and
crimes.
Western media sneered that “autocrats”
Putin and Xi were “posing as peacemakers”,
even while both leaders emphasized their
vision of multipolar relations was based on
mutual cooperation.
China’s proposals for a peaceful end to
the war in Ukraine were welcomed by Putin
but dismissed by the Americans and Europeans
as “diplomatic cover for Russian
aggression”. Meanwhile, Washington and
Brussels made new commitments to increase
weapons supply to Ukraine, thereby
prolonging the conflict – the worst in
Europe since World War Two.
It is American and European regimes that
are ruling out any dialogue or
political-historical understanding about the
origins of the war in Ukraine. Hence their
determination to swipe away any opportunity
for resolution. Because if an intelligent,
reasonable dialogue was held – as the
Russians had proposed before the war erupted
more than a year ago – the conclusions would
be unacceptable for U.S. and NATO
expansionism.
The paradox is Russia and China are
portrayed as global villains by Western
powers who are still dripping with blood
from the fraudulent and illegal Iraq war and
who are today fueling a potentially
catastrophic nuclear confrontation over
Ukraine. The same media lying machine that
enabled the destruction of Iraq (and many
other nations) is now enabling hostility
towards Russia and China.
To augment that twisted narrative, the
Western media seek to undermine the Russian
and Chinese-led move towards a better,
fairer global economy and with that the
demise of U.S. hegemony. Of course, “U.S.
hegemony” and “Western economy” are just
euphemisms for a dictatorship of
billionaires and corporations, a
dictatorship that the vast majority of the
Western public has to suffer under.
So this week, Russia was labelled the
“junior partner” of China and denigrated for
becoming a “dependency” on Beijing. Western
media reporting went into contortions to
wantonly mischaracterize the evident warmth
between Putin and Xi, and the tremendous
significance of their global vision.
Russia was disparaged as becoming nothing
more than a “resource colony of China” owing
to its burgeoning oil and gas exports. That
moniker reminds one of former U.S. Senator
John McCain’s insult of Russia being nothing
more than a “gas station masquerading as a
nation”.
It’s funny how Moscow was up until
recently accused of “energy blackmail” and
“weaponizing hydrocarbons” when it was the
main supplier of Europe. But when Russia’s
vast energy is rerouted to China it is now
pilloried as a “colony” of Beijing. Western
propaganda can’t make up its mind about
whether to cast Russia as an energy tyrant
or an energy today. That double-think
betrays propaganda construct and
demonization.
The world is changing before our eyes.
Western imperialist regimes are being
exposed for the warmongers they are, their
privileges and predatory capitalism are
imploding, their neocolonialist
blood-sucking days are over, and a new
multipolar order of partnership and peace is
emerging.
The Western elites and their media are
excelling themselves by trying to bad mouth
Putin and Xi in every preposterous way. The
outlandish distortions are commensurate with
the desperation.
Time in short order, however, is telling
who really is on the right side of history.