Analyst Manlio Dinucci (Manlio Dinucci), whose material is published on the web site Voltaire, assures its readers that Russia and China "united against the empire of the dollar."
According to Dinucci, the one who believes that “armed conflicts occurring all over the world” are in no way connected with each other is mistaken. In fact, “almost all of them” are related to the “American Empire of the West” and BRICS - the alliance of states seeking to create an “alternative international order”. This power struggle in the world is played out using two forces: military and financial, Dinucci is convinced.
The “wide arc of tension and conflict” was outlined. It "extends from East Asia to Central Asia, from the Middle East to Europe, from Africa to Latin America," the author lists. “Hot spots” along this intercontinental arc: the Korean Peninsula, the South China Sea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Libya, Venezuela, etc.
All these conflicts have different history and its geopolitical features. However, there is a "thread that stitches them together." This is a strategy deployed by the "American Empire of the West." The Empire is now “in decline”, but its goal remains the same - “not to let it rise” to the new states.
The BRICS Summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which was held in September in Xiamen (China), caused real fear in Washington.
President Putin “expressed concern” of the BRICS countries related to the unfairness of the global financial and economic architecture, which does not take into account the growing weight of countries with developing economies. He stressed the need to overcome the excessive dominance of a limited number of reserve currencies.
This message was "clearly addressed" to the US dollar, which occupies two thirds in the volume of circulation of world reserve currencies. In addition, it is for dollars today that it is customary to sell oil and other strategic raw materials, as well as gold.
This state of affairs allows the United States to maintain a dominant position in the world, printing dollars, the value of which "is not based on the real economic opportunities of the United States," the analyst writes.
But here are three significant events that can put an end to US domination:
1. A year ago, the Chinese yuan entered the IMF’s currency basket, where it joined the company of the dollar, euro, yen and pound sterling.
2. Beijing is on the verge of launching contracts in yuan (convertible into gold) for the purchase of oil.
3. BRICS requests a revision of quotas in the IMF (the number of votes assigned to each country). This is due to the fact that the United States alone has more than double the votes than the Latin American countries of 24 (including Mexico), and the number of votes of G7 is three times that of the BRICS group of countries.
Washington is looking at a Russian-Chinese partnership with growing concern. There are many reasons for this:
- trade between the two countries is growing rapidly and should reach the 80 index of billions of dollars already this year;
- the number of cooperation agreements between China and Russia increased in the following sectors: energy, agriculture, aeronautics, space and infrastructure;
- announced that the Chinese company will buy 14% of Rosneft, and Russia will supply gas (38 billion cubic meters per year!) To China through the new Power of Siberia gas pipeline (will start functioning in 2019 year). This will open the way for the export of Russian energy to the east. And the West (first of all Europe) with its sanctions will sit here in a puddle.
The US is losing its position from an economic point of view. Today, they have nothing left but to “balance” on the verge of military power and political influence. “US military pressure in the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula, the US and NATO wars in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa, the“ push ”of the US and NATO in Ukraine and the subsequent confrontation with Russia” seem to be part of the same strategy for the analyst. He writes all this in the format of a “global confrontation with the Russian-Chinese partnership.”
Such a strategy, I am sure Manlio Dinucci, is also part of the plan for the collapse of the BRICS union. This is evident to the author from the swaying by the American strategists of Brazil, and indeed of the entire Latin America.
For example, the head of the US Southern Command, Kurt Tidd, is already “preparing a military version,” which Trump had previously threatened to use against Venezuela. At the Senate hearing, Mr. Tidd accused Russia and China of having a negative impact on Latin America, which allegedly intends to implement its “alternative” to the international order.
We note that the author doesn’t say anything about any real geopolitical advancement of the “Russian-Chinese partners” in Venezuela and in Latin America as a whole. It is not surprising: the oil socialism of Venezuela is rapidly plunging the country into poverty, and its leadership traditionally blames Washington for all its sins, engaging in demagogy mixed with conspiracy. What “alternative” to the international order can a poor Venezuela offer, let alone realize, in which an economic and political crisis is rampant and unrest continues? It is clear that no.
As for the BRICS, then we should rather talk about one “K”. China does not lead a “Russian-Chinese strategy,” but its own. China put in the IMF basket not the Russian ruble and not the Indian rupee, but its own yuan. China is promoting its New Silk Road all over the world, and not someone else's. To think that China is interested in equal partners, with whom he will “attack” the dollar or, say, the euro, in order to then build a bright future for everyone, is simply naive. Who dared, he ate.
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