Western Leaders Don’t Even Know What Hit Them—Escalate To Shape a New Paradigm

G20 Summit India 2023

EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sept. 11, 2023 (EIRNS)—The news of the last few days is the utter failure of representatives of Western governments to reach an agreement at India’s G20 summit to condemn “Russian aggression” and thereby bolster confidence in their supposed “rules-based order.” This is just the latest in the ongoing process of beginning to come to grips with the 10,000-pound elephant called reality standing in the middle of the room. It was revealed by India’s G20 Sherpa that over 200 hours of negotiations went into the final Declaration, and 15 drafts, yet still, the West deemed the final text a major disappointment.

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A Tale of Two Anniversaries: Choose Wisely

10 year anniversary since the inauguration of the Belt and Road initiative started in 2013

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EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Sept. 7, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—Today is the tenth anniversary of the launching of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). On Sept. 7, 2013, President Xi Jinping presented what he the “Silk Road Economic Belt,” in a speech in Kazakhstan early in his presidency, entitled “Promote People-to-People Friendship and Create a Better Future.” It called for an “innovative cooperation mode” in building transportation corridors, to create(*typo correction edit by peacebuilder.net) a “greater space for development,” and to make “a grand cause benefitting people in regional countries along the route.” He called for creating a “new brilliance with a more open mind and a broader vision to expand regional cooperation.” More than talk, China had walked the walk in lifting 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty (using methods easily recognizable by Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy). Now more than 150 countries are on board.

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Join Hands with the Global Majority!

ASEAN; September 2023

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EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Sept. 5, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—The next week brings several international conferences: the ASEAN meeting taking place now in Indonesia, the G20 meeting in India this weekend, the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok over Sept. 10-13, and, in the middle of it, the Schiller Institute’s Sept. 9 online conference “Let us Join Hands with the Global Majority To Create a New Chapter in World History!”

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