København, 28. maj 2015 – »Win-win med BRIKS, ikke kollaps og krig«, med et billede af Verdenslandbroen og kandidaten, lyder vore valgplakater, der sættes op i Danmark (se: www.sive.dk), efter at statsminister Helle Thorning Schmidt i går udskrev valg til Folketinget. Valget finder som bekendt sted om tre uger, den 18. juni.

Fire aktivister fra Schiller Instituttets Venner, med Schiller Instituttets formand, Tom Gillesberg, i spidsen, stiller op som kandidater uden for partierne. I Københavns Storkreds stiller Tom Gillesberg op, i Københavns Omegns Storkreds Christian Olesen, i Østjyllands Storkreds Poul Gundersen og i Nordjyllands Storkreds Hans Schultz. I går og i dag blev der hængt 750 valgplakater op i København, og i hver af de to jyske storkredse kommer der 200 plakater op.

Dette vil direkte sætte Schiller Instituttets/LaRouche-bevægelsens kampagne for at få Europa og USA til at gå med i BRIKS, i stedet for finansielt og økonomisk sammenbrud og krig, på den politiske dagsorden i Danmark. Allerede i dag blev Tom Gillesberg kontaktet af et af de større medier, der bad om et interview.

Stay tuned på www.sive.dk for dækning af vores valgkamp.

»Kina er hastigt i færd med at ændre det verdensøkonomiske landkort … og at bidrage til en vækstcyklus uden fortilfælde«, erklærede Alicia Barcena, direktør for FN’s Økonomiske Konference om Latinamerika og Caribien (ECLAC), i går entusiastisk, som vært for en konference om ECLAC i Santiago, Chile, med deltagelse af Chiles præsident Michelle Bachellet og den besøgende, kinesiske premierminister Li Keqiang. Konferencen havde den passende titel: »Mod en ny æra af økonomisk samarbejde.«

Chile var det sidste ben på Lis tourné til fire lande i Sydamerika, og han meddelte, at hans regering ville opfordre kinesiske selskaber til at deltage i bygningen af en »tunnel mellem to oceaner«, der forbinder Chile og Argentina, under Andesbjergene, og som ville være nøgleelementet i en transkontinental jernbane, der forbinder Atlanterhavet og Stillehavet gennem Chile, Argentina, Paraguay og Brasilien. Blot få dage forinden havde Kina, Peru og Brasilien underskrevet et forståelsesmemorandum om en forundersøgelse af en anden, mere nordligt beliggende transkontinental jernbane tværs over Sydamerika.

Det bør bemærkes, hvor langt, og hvor hurtigt, tingene har udviklet sig i Sydamerika på under et år, siden BRIKS-Unasur-topmødet fandt sted i Brasilien i juli 2014. Som vi dengang bemærkede, havde Argentina anført vejen tidligere i foråret ved at være det første land, der brød med det synkende, transatlantiske system og ved at alliere sig med BRIKS, og nu følger størstedelen af Sydamerika efter.

Det britiske Imperium og deres marionet Obama ’are not amused’, men de har ikke ret mange kort på hånden, som de kan spille ud med for at standse dette fremvoksende Nye Paradigme, bortset fra at lancere en atomar, Tredje Verdenskrig – og naturligvis ved at bruge den totalt miskrediterede, såkaldte »Duggan-affære« i forsøg på at bagtale Lyndon LaRouche, der har været en af de drivende, intellektuelle kræfter bag Verdenslandbroen, der nu er under opførelse af BRIKS og deres allierede.

Som optakt til indeværende års BRIKS-topmøde i Ufa, Rusland, den 8.-9. juli, tager lignende, strategiske udviklinger nu form omkring Grækenland og Europa – men forløbet vil blive anderledes end i Sydamerikas situation, erklærede Lyndon LaRouche i dag. Denne udvikling involverer USA direkte – samt faren for, at præsident Obama vil lancere en atomkrig på kort sigt.

Grækenlands regering gør det fortsat klart, at de har valgt at udbetale lønninger og pensioner til deres forarmede befolkning snarere, end de vil fortsætte med at betale IMF og landets øvrige kreditorer for gæld, der for størstedelens vedkommende er illegitim. Hvis Grækenland virkelig ikke betaler sit 300 million euro store afdrag til IMF den 5. juni, så vil landets 30-dages afdragsfri periode – efter hvilken en officiel betalingsstandsning kunne blive erklæret – udløbe den 5. juli … tre dage før BRIKS-topmødet åbner i Ufa!

Vil Angela Merkel og kompagni virkeligt være dumme nok til at skubbe Grækenland ud af Eurozonen? Hvis ja, så har Lyndon LaRouche gentagne gange advaret om, at det vil blive ikke Grækenlands, men hele det transatlantiske finanssystems død, som vel at mærke under alle omstændigheder er totalt bankerot.

I dag understregede LaRouche, at verden befinder sig på lynnedtælling til en potentiel atomkrig, hvis Obama ikke bliver fjernet fra embedet. Når Eurozone-systemet nedsmelter, vil dette tvinge krisen til USA som hovedscenen. Wall Street og relaterede institutioner vil gå ned, og hvis Obama fortsat sidder i præsidentembedet, vil verden have kurs mod krig.

Martin O’Malleys kommende annoncering den 30. maj af sit kandidatur til USA’s præsident, understregede LaRouche, vil forandre alt i dette land.

Hillary Clinton vil ikke klare det; hendes kandidatur vil ikke fungere. Republikanerne har også store problemer. Så når sammenbruddet af det europæiske system kommer, vil spørgsmålet blive udfordret i USA. Hvilket betyder, at de næste par uger bliver afgørende.

I løbet af de næste tre uger vil nationer på diverse kontinenter blive direkte præsenteret for Lyndon LaRouches programmatiske alternativ til det nuværende folkemorderiske system: den 28. maj, på konferencen i Lima, Peru, hvor Helga Zepp-LaRouche og Kinas dr. Liu Youfa vil være talere; den 6. juni, på vores næste, store konference i New York City; osv.

Så nyd Det britiske Imperiums nederlag.

Med formand Tom Gillesberg

Wiesbaden, 23. maj 2015 – Modsætningen kunne næppe være større: BRIKS-nationerne, og her især Kina, såvel som de stater, der flokkes omkring dets nye økonomiske system og finanssystem, koncentrerer sig om opbygning, udvikling og forbedring af befolkningens livsbetingelser. De transatlantiske regeringer forsumper derimod i et morads af skandaler og begår oven i købet den eneste synd, der selv i de skrupelløses rige er utilgivelig: De bliver taget i deres intriger – som præsident Obama i affæren om attentatet i Benghasi i 2012, drabet på Bin Laden eller NSA-affæren med forbundskansler Merkel, eller storbankerne med deres bedragerier.

Præsident Putins rådgiver Sergei Glasjev kom med en præcis opsummering den 22. maj på BRIKS’ VII. Akademiforum i Moskva: BRIKS’ Nye Udviklingsbank er ikke et alternativ til IMF og Verdensbanken, men et supplement til dem; BRIKS-banken tager de udfordringer op, som i øjeblikket bliver ignoreret af de vestlige finansinstitutioner. IMF fremmer udelukkende spekulanternes interesser, idet barriererne for spekulativ kapital bliver afskaffet. Den enorme mængde af spekulativ kapital, der via seddelpresse for dollar, euro, pund og yen når frem til BRIKS-staterne i form af spekulative bølger, destabiliserer disse nationaløkonomier snarere, end de gavner deres tilbagestående udvikling. Derfor måtte BRIKS-staterne slå deres finansinstitutioner sammen for at finansiere deres langsigtede udviklingsprogrammer.

I mellemtiden er Kina, inden for rammerne af politikken for Den nye Silkevej, i færd med at investere de enorme valutareserver, som det pga. en restriktiv eksportpolitik frem for alt fra USA’s side – og her især vægringen ved at eksportere den såkaldte »Dual-Use-Teknologi« – har samlet sammen, i sammenhæng med multilaterale aftaler. Sammen med Pakistan investerer Kina 46 mia. dollar i en fælles udviklingskorridor; under den indiske premierminister Modis seneste besøg afslørede Kina projekter i størrelsesordenen 32 mia. dollar, og under premierminister Li Keqiangs besøg i Brasilien, projekter i størrelsesordenen 73 mia. dollar, efterfulgt af andre projekter med andre latinamerikanske stater. Især var den kinesiske premierminister Lis besøg i stand til, på få dage, at neutralisere storangrebet på præsident Dilma Rousseff, som havde til formål at brække Brasilien ud af BRIKS-alliancen og sabotere Brasiliens deltagelse i den Nye Udviklingsbank, og i stedet for dette, at intensivere det kinesisk-brasilianske samarbejde.

Kinas og BRIKS-staternes politik viser vejen til fremtiden; det er tydeligvis også den tyske ambassadør i Beijing, Michael Clauss’ mening. Til South China Morning Post erklærede han, under AIIB’s, Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbanks, tredages stiftelsesmøde i Singapore, at Tyskland ville være medlem af bestyrelsen for AIIB, og at Frankfurt skulle være hjemsted for den europæiske AIIB-filial.

Hvor let ville det ikke være for Tyskland og de andre europæiske nationer at overvinde den umiddelbart truende detonering af euroen! I stedet for at holde fast på, at Grækenland fortsat skal massakrere sin egen befolkning for at betale sin gæld, som for 97 % ’s vedkommende har vist sig at være til gavn for de europæiske banker, kunne de, efter en gældsnedskrivning som den, der blev aftalt for Tyskland under Gældskonferencen i London i 1953, udstede lignende kreditter til Grækenland til udvikling af landets realøkonomi, som Kina i øjeblikket gør det til dusinvis af nationer. Men, så længe den tyske regering ser sig selv som statholder for det anglo-amerikanske imperium (med EU som dette imperiums regionale udtryk), vil den i stedet holde fast ved sin politik, der risikerer at styrte os ud i kaos.

Med en noget forsinket reaktion hidser den amerikanske finansanalytiker Robert Berke i magasinet Time sig nu op over Kinas to år lange Silkevejspolitik, der kunne føre til et »revolutionært skift« mht. det globale, økonomiske landkort og til en alvorlig øst-vest-konfrontation. Han fremfører dernæst, så det ikke er til at tage fejl af, som talerør for den britiske imperie-faktion, den trussel, at det store skakspil mellem øst og vest om overherredømmet i Eurasien fortsætter, og at geopolitiske konflikter over det Nye Silkevejsprojekt kunne igangsætte en ny Kold Krig, hvis udgang er helt åben.

Deutschlandrundfunk har tilsyneladende også stået på sidelinjen i to år mht. betydningen af den Nye Silkevej. Men nu har Duetschlandrundfunk samtidigt med artiklen i Time bragt en udsendelse, der absolut ikke står tilbage for denne mht. geopolitisk ophidselse. I stedet for at begribe den chance, der med Xi Jinpings inkluderende »win-win-politik« netop består i overvindelsen af en geopolitik, der har beskåret det 20. århundrede to verdenskrige, opremser denne udsendelse de samme, gennemtyggede påstande, som Det britiske Imperium til enhver tid tygger drøv på, om, hvorfor Silkevejen angiveligt ikke vil fungere. Samtidigt bliver de virkeligt nye elementer, der vækker begejstring, om en vision for fremtiden, og den strategiske forståelse, som er uden fortilfælde, mellem BRIKS-staternes statschefer, fuldstændigt udeladt – en for massemedierne desværre så typisk tilsløring gennem udeladelse og vildledende sammensætning af kendsgerninger.

I mellemtiden finder der i USA’s regeringsinstitutioner et oprør sted imod Obamaregeringen, der meget hurtigt kunne ændre den strategiske situation. Fra Seymour Hersh’ højeksplosive artikel, der præsenterer omstændighederne ved Osama Bin Ladens mord, som står i diametral modsætning til Obamaregeringens officielle version, og til den militære efterretningstjeneste DIA’s, Defense Intelligence Agency, frigivne dokumenter om de faktiske hændelser i forbindelse med angrebet på den amerikanske ambassadør Stevens og tre medarbejdere i Benghasi i Libyen den 11. september 2012, er der nu kommet fakta på bordet, der kun tillader den ene konklusion, at Obama har løjet. Disse dokumenter afslører, at der allerede en dag senere, den 12.9.2012, forelå beviser for, at 1. angrebet foregik for al-Qaedas regning og altså på ingen måde var en »spontan protest« over en anti-islamisk video; at 2. det drejede sig om våbenleverancer fra Libyen til de syriske oprørere; og at 3. man allerede på det tidspunkt vidste, at disse oprøreres mål var at oprette et islamisk kalifat. I betragtning af IS’ nylige, »overraskende« successer i Ramadi og Syrien er denne vurdering fra 2012 højeksplosiv.

Alle disse baggrundsomstændigheder, der nu er blevet kendt, undersøges af formanden for Den amerikanske Kongres’ Benghasi-komite, republikaneren Trey Gowdy, så vel som også daværende udenrigsminister Hillary Clintons rolle i affæren, der vel burde høre til hendes største bekymringer med hensyn til hendes ambitioner om at blive præsidentkandidat. Forfatteren Ed Klein har i sin bog om konflikten mellem Obama-parret og Clinton-parret hævdet, at Obama lagde pres på Hillary, til fordel for hans daværende præsidentvalgkamp, for at hun skulle lyve om Benghasi.

Bag dette oprør i regeringsinstitutionerne skjuler der sig endnu mere end disse skandaler, hvor oprørende de end i sig selv er. I virkeligheden drejer det sig om USA’s identitet: Handler USA, militært og som finansmagt, som Det britiske Imperiums udøvende organ, hvilket bl.a. kommer til udtryk i konfrontationsstrategien over for Rusland og Kina, og som fremmaner en umiddelbar fare for en atomar verdenskrig, udløst gennem Ukraine – eller kan USA atter bringes tilbage til den vej, hvor det begyndte sin historie, nemlig som en republik, der var forpligtet over for det almene vel? Bevarelsen af verdensfreden afhænger af udfaldet af denne debat.

Det var ligeledes i Richard Nixons tilfælde, hvor det rent overfladisk drejede sig om noget helt andet i Watergate-affæren, slutteligt en beslutning i regeringsinstitutionerne om at stille ham en rigsretssag i udsigt, der dernæst bevægede ham til at træde tilbage. På samme måde blev det nu, efter offentliggørelsen af DIA-dokumenterne, for første gang heftigt diskuteret at stille Obama for en rigsret, og det i begge de politiske lejre.

Hele krisen – fra Grækenland, Ukraine, finanssystemet og til skandalerne i USA – der tilspidses frem til beslutningstidspunktet, reduceres ned til det altafgørende spørgsmål, om menneskeheden i rette tid kan præstere det spring at befri sig fra geopolitikkens selvdestruktive dynamik og hæve sig op på menneskehedens fælles måls højere plan. Til dette formål byder Kinas og BRIKS-staternes tilbud om at samarbejde om virkeliggørelsen af den Nye Silkevej på en gylden – og eneste tilgængelige – lejlighed.

Det er en uigendrivelig kendsgerning, at Schiller Instituttet i 25 år har foreslået og grundigt udarbejdet denne politik med Den eurasiske Landbro eller Den nye Silkevej; den blev for nylig atter aktualiseret i form af en omfattende rapport på 370 sider, The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge (»Den nye Silkevej bliver til Verdenslandbroen«)[1]. Programmet for overvindelsen er der altså – det, vi har brug for, er modige medkæmpere, der hjælper med at bringe de europæiske nationer om bord!

[1] http://schillerinstitut.dk/si/?p=3777

20 maj 2015 – Direktøren for Internationale Sikkerhedsstudier ved Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), med hjemsted i Storbritannien, og det britiske monarkis førende tænketank for militære efterretninger, er gået med på holdet for at samarbejde med Kinas Nye Silkevej snarere end at forsøge at tilbageholde det uundgåelige tidevand.

Idet han måske gav udtryk for en »realistgruppe« i Europa, fremførte Rafaello Pantucci i et interview, han gav til det russiske nyhedsagentur Sputnik, at »der fejer en økonomisk kraft langs med Silkevejen, der bringer Kina stadig tættere på de europæiske markeder«, og at det er en »dynamik, der under alle omstændigheder vil finde sted, og som allerede er i gang«, hvad enten man kan lide det eller ej. Så i stedet for at bekæmpe det, bør Europa overveje de »potentielle muligheder«, det tilbyder, argumenterede Pantucci. Herefter opsummerede Sputnik hans argument: »Det kinesiske tiltag med Den nye Silkevej kan blive en udvej for EU, der lider under sin langvarige, økonomiske tilbagegang, og kunne styrke magterne på det eurasiske kontinent både politisk og økonomisk.«

Et lignende perspektiv blev præsenteret af Vasilis Trigkas fra Carnegie-Tsinghua-Centret for Global Politik i en artikel, der fremfører: »Dette initiativ [Kinas Nye Silkevej] tilbyder Grækenland i særdeleshed en mulighed for at genvinde de seneste tyve års tabte, økonomisk rum og blive en teknologisk fremskreden og serviceorienteret [! -red.] økonomi. Dette strategiske deus ex machina[1] er blevet endnu mere afgørende nu, da Grækenland oplever en langvarig depression med en arbejdsløshedsrate på 27 %, pr. december 2014.«

[1] Udtrykket Deus ex machina er latin og betyder løst oversat »gud fra en maskine«. Med maskine henvises i dette tilfælde til de kraner, der i skuespil i det gamle Grækenland blev brugt til at sænke skuespillere ned på scenen fra oven. (Wikipedia)

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Schiller Institut Specialrapport:

Et økonomisk mirakel for Sydeuropa, Middelhavsområdet og det afrikanske kontinent.

Mit dilemma stammer fra den kendsgerning, at jeg … med det samme må fortælle jer … , at verden er langt tættere på en ny, global krig, end de fleste mennesker har nogen anelse om. Denne nye politik for Den nye Silkevej … , er den eneste politik til at undgå krig, der er til rådighed.  

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HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE ADDRESSES “CHINA’S ‘ONE BELT, ONE ROAD’
POLICY’ SEMINAR IN COPENHAGEN, April 27, 2015

Here is the transcript of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s address to the
Schiller Institute seminar in Copenhagen, which was held
Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute, Copenhagen Business
School. Click her for the audio and video from Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s speech and the other speeches from the seminar.

TOM GILLESBERG: I have the great honor of introducing Helga
Zepp-LaRouche, who has come here from a rather busy schedule both
in Germany and the United States, but also the whole world she’s
intervening to. Just as a short introduction, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche
has been since 1977 the wife and very close collaborator of
Lyndon LaRouche in the United States, the economist, philosopher,
statesman who is giving leadership in the U.S., for the U.S. to
return to the intentions of its founders, to be a promoter of
sovereign nations that can collaborate on an equal footing to
secure the benefits for all nations and peoples.
And Helga has a very, I think, close connection to China.
As a young journalist she traveled to China in 1971, in the
height of the Cultural Revolution as one of the first Western
journalists and actually saw on the spot what was going on. She
then became politically active with the LaRouche movement and
embarked on a life-long battle for a new just world economic
order, for the possibilities of development for all nations and
peoples.
She then founded, among many other things, the Schiller
Institute, in 1984. She is presently the chairwoman of the
German political party, the BüSo — the Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Solidarität, or Civil Rights Soliarity Movement. She was vry
active after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and one of the authors
of the Schiller Institute program for the development of the
world after the Iron Curtain had fallen of the program the
Paris-Berlin-Vienna Productive Triangle, a Locomotive for the
World Economy. And when that did not materialize, she was very
active in extending that program to the program for the Eurasian
Land-Bridge, going from China and Asia to Europe and having a
development of the whole region. And as part of that, she then
became a visitor many times to China to speak on the need for a
New Silk Road and actually earned her nickname in China as the
“Silk Road Lady,” for her efforts to have China embark on this
policy.
And since then, she has been also the driving force in
holding many scores of conferences in Europe and the United
States on the need for creating a paradigm shift, to get the
Western world out of its long-term economic, strategic, and
cultural crisis. And, over the last couple of years, she has
been one of the architects of this report, “The New Silk Road
Becomes the World Land-Bridge.” She has also been leading the
campaign to stop the present geopolitical games that threaten to
detonate thermonuclear war and instead get the United States and
Europe to accept the offer of the BRICS countries to join forces
in an inclusive world order, where all nations of the world, on
an equal footing, collaborate to secure the peace and development
of all nations.
So I think it’s very appropriate that you are here to
directly lay what’s going on, so please, welcome. [applause]

HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Thank you, Tom, for these kind words of
introduction.
Well I have a certain dilemma, because I want to present to
you the potential, which lies in this program, and given the fact
that the Western media have reported very little about it, I have
a dilemma, that I need to tell you, that this is {the} most
important political initiative on the planet right now. The
dilemma comes from the fact that, by introducing this idea, have
to tell you immediately why this is the case, and that is the
reality, that the world is much more close to a new global war,
than most people have an inkling of. And this New Silk Road
initiative, which comes from China, but which in the meantime has
been joined by many countries, is the only available
war-avoidance policy.
Now there was just on the April 18- 19 in Moscow the Fourth
Moscow International Security Conference, and the main subject of
this conference was the danger of nuclear war. And this is a
reaction to the fact that NATO has been expanding eastward, up to
the borders of Russia. You have a whole bunch of strategic
doctrines which Russia regards as a threat to their security
interests, and naturally you have the horrendous situation in
Ukraine, which contrary to what the Western media have been
reporting on — or not reporting actually — is it’s really
something which the West must make up. I just participated in the
last two days, or Friday and Saturday in a conference in
Baden-Baden in Germany, the German-Russian Cultural Days. It’s an
annual conference, and there was a large gathering of German
industrialists and Russian speakers and Russian people. And we
had the fortune to have a videoconference connected to this
conference, which brought in a live program from the former Prime
Minister of Ukraine, Mr. [Mykola] Azarov. And he gave an
absolutely hair-raising report about the conditions in Ukraine,
the fact that the country is being torn apart. Political leaders
are either forced to go into exile or are threatened to be
assassinated; journalists are being killed openly in the street;
trenches are being built; and, as you know, American soldiers are
now training the National Guard, which has a lot of Nazi
components in it. And for the Russians this is extremely severe,
because we are shortly before the 70th anniversary of the end of
Nazism and the end of the Second World War, and the mood of the
people were really horrified to see this endorsement of Nazis 70
years after the Second World War.
Now, I don’t want to go into this in depth, we can do that
in the discussion if people have questions about it, but I think
this crisis, in Ukraine in particular, I could also point to the
Middle East, which is in a similar horrible condition, makes
very, very clear, that if we as humanity cannot move away from
geopolitics — geopolitics was the reason for two world wars in
the 20th century, and right now the continuation of geopolitics
is threatening a new global war. I just want to mention an
article in {New York Times} from 19th April, where two generals,
Gen. James Cartwright, who is former head of the U.S. Strategic
Command, and Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin, who is the chief of
intelligence of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, they penned
together an article, In which they said that the world has never
been so close to the danger of nuclear war globally, and
therefore extinction, as right now. And the reason is obviously
that even the normal code of behavior among nations, which
existed in the Cold War, that you had a red telephone between
Kennedy and Khrushchev, this no longer exists; and you have the
two nuclear forces, from NATO and the West and Russia, all the
time on launch on warning. And launch on warning means there are
only a few minutes time, if one side perceives a launch, either
by intention or by accident, they have a few minutes, actually
it’s estimated three minutes’ time, to respond or be eliminated.
So that shows you how extremely close we are to the danger
of a global extinction of civilization. Because if this would
happen, we would not exist as humanity. And I’m saying it with
that gravity, to say that this calls all the more urgently, for a
different approach. And the different approach must be to move
away from geopolitics and move in the direction of the common
aims of mankind.
And it just happens to be, that the policies which are
proposed by President Xi Jinping, which he calls a “win-win”
policy, is exactly that. It’s the idea, that with the New Silk
Road, you have a policy where every country which participates in
it, will have a benefit for it. The New Silk Road, Maritime Silk
Road policy by China is {not} a new imperial policy replacing the
Anglo-American imperial policy, but it is a completely new model
of the nations among nations, where the enormous example of the
Chinese economic miracle, which China was able to develop in the
last 30 years — you know, where China in {30 years}, developed
as much as most industrial nations needed 100 or 200 years to
develop — and China is now offering to export that model and
have other countries benefit in a similar way from that kind of
economic miracle, which China did.
Can you move to the first slide?
So the world has changed since July last year, the summit of
the BRICS countries in Fortaleza in Brazil. And this is a
picture which was made at this occasion, showing the leaders of
Russia, India, Brazil, China and South Africa. And they basically
concluded a new strategic alliance — economic alliance, which
Prime Minister Modi characterized in the following way: He said,
“This is the first alliance of nations, which are not defined by
their current capacity, but by their future potential of
development.” And at another occasion, Modi said that the biggest
potential of India is, that 60% of its people are below 30 years
of age, and therefore, if they are well-educated and developed,
they can come to the help of other nations, which has demographic
problems, like Germany, for example.
What these countries did, is they concluded an enormous
amount of economic treaties, of economic cooperation, including
peaceful development of inherently safe nuclear energy, the
development of fusion energy, joint space projects, space travel,
and numerous other high-tech cooperation areas.
Then, the next day, they met with the leaders of South
America, the organizations of CELAC [Community of Latin American
and Caribbean States] and Unasur [Union of South American
Nations]. Then a little bit later they also had meetings with
countries of ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] and
actually you have now a completely parallel system of economics,
which is really going to be the infrastructure development of the
world.
Now this here is an official picture of the New Silk Road
and the Maritime Silk Road, which shows you the old Silk Road
from Xi’an, actually it goes even farther to the west,
Lianyungang, where the end of that Silk Road is on the China Sea,
all the way through Urumqi, then Central Asia into Europe; and
then Maritime Silk Road is actually connecting even Africa and
much of the Pacific also into Europe. And this is modelled on the
famous Maritime Silk Road of the 15th century, which connected
the nations of the world already at that time.
Now, I want to very quickly say that this made us very
happy, when Xi Jinping announced the New Silk Road in Kazakhstan
in 2013, we jumped that high — you know, in the Schiller
Institute — because we had promoted this idea. This was our
proposal when the Berlin Wall came down, in ’89, and the wall no
longer was there. So we said let’s connect Paris with Berlin and
Vienna, which is a triangular area of the size of Japan, and has
the highest concentration of industrial capacity in the world;
and let’s make corridors to Warsaw, to Kiev, to the Balkans. And
it would have been a perfect way to intervene.
Unfortunately at that time, despite the fact there was a
very good resonance, you had Bush Sr., you had Margaret
Thatcher, and they had completely different ideas: They wanted to
reduce Russia from a superpower to at Third World, raw
materials-exporting country, and therefore they introduced the
shock-therapy, instead, which dismantled the Russian industrial
potential between ’91-’94, to only 30% left.
But then, when in ’91, the Soviet Union collapsed, we
connected this triangle, Paris-Berlin-Vienna, and we said: OK,
now the Iron Curtain is gone, now we can have development
corridors connecting the population and industrial centers of
Europe with those of Asia, through corridors. And then we looked
at the best geographical conditions. I should say, we were
inspired very much by the railway program of Sun Yat-sen, the
founder of modern China, who had developed a whole network of
Chinese railways, and that went into this program. So, at that
time we said let’s look at the best geographical preconditions,
and we found, not so accidentally, that the old Trans-Siberian
Railroad and the old Silk Road, the ancient Silk Road, had the
best geographical conditions to build such infrastructure.
So at that point the shock therapy started to destroy
Russia’s economy, but we kept holding seminars — we had hundreds
of seminars, in Europe, in United States, and then, eventually,
in Warsaw, in Budapest, in Moscow. And in ’96 even in Beijing,
where the Chinese government had responded to our proposal to all
the governments, to hold a big conference promoting the regions
along the Silk Road. And I was there as a speaker, but then came
the Asia Crisis in ’97, and China, at that conference said, that
this will be the long-term strategy for China until 2010. But
then the Asia crisis brought chaos and then the Russian GKO
crisis [in ’98].
So in the mean time we kept working on this initial proposal
which grew. And the latest of this, is this report: It’s a
370-page study which is really the idea of connecting the world
through infrastructure corridors.
Now, here you see some of these projects, which are already
being built, by the BRICS, by some of the other countries — for
example China is now building a transcontinental railroad from
Brazil to Peru, this is letter A [on the map]. This has already
started — you know, Latin America does not have an
infrastructure network! It is still in the colonial condition,
where you have little railroads from the iron ore mountain to the
coast, but if you want to travel from Peru to Brazil, you have to
go via Miami. So this is the idea, to develop a continental
railroad system.
Then number 1 there is the canal built in Nicaragua, it will
be the second Panama Canal, which obviously is an extremely
important project, which will mean that Nicaragua has a very good
chance to become an industrial country, with improving living
standards of its population. Naturally the Greenies are going
crazy and they say there are two fishermen who have to be
resettled. But, first of all, these people will be compensated,
and secondly without infrastructure, there is {no} industrial
development; without infrastructure there is not even
agriculture, because without infrastructure you cannot transport
and process food.
So then, naturally you have the Bering Strait, this number
2. This has been recently announced by Vladimir Yakunin, who is
the head of Russian Railways. And he proposed (I don’t think I
have that slide), a fast train connection from London all the way
through the Bering Strait to New York. A couple of years ago, Mr.
LaRouche and I participated in a conference in Moscow where the
fathers of the Bering Strait Project were present. These were all
older men over 80, and they said: “Oh, in 20 years, we can go
with a maglev train from Acapulco through the Bering Strait to
Mumbai, and this will be much faster than you can go by ship
today,” and they had a very pioneering spirit.
So this is very important because this connection not only
would connect the transport lines of North America with those of
Eurasia, but it would be absolutely crucial to open up the Arctic
Region. In the Far East of Russia you have all the raw materials
which are in the periodic table of Mendeleyev, and they represent
for the next 100 years a very important raw-material potential
which will be important not only for Russia, but for Europe, for
the United States, for China, for Japan, for Korea. So this will
be the way to develop it, because these raw-material are in
permafrost conditions, and you have to build, you have to build
cities, which have a dome, because people have to live — you
cannot live in permanfrost conditions like that, you have to have
a special way of developing it.
Now, I could go into many other projects — the Seikan
tunnel between the Japanese islands does already exist, it
connects the two important islands in Japan. Then the Bohai
Tunnel will connect two Chinese cities and shorten the transport.
The brown line there, this is the actual Silk Road [Silk Road
Economic Belt], which is now being promoted by China; this larger
gray line is the [21st-Century] Maritime Silk Road; but as you
can see, it stretches all the way to Europe and into Africa.
Prime Minister Li Keqiang was several times last year in Africa,
and he proposed to connect all African capitals through a fast
train system. And I know from many Africans, leaders and leading
politicians, they are very happy about that, because Africa right
now urgently needs development. And I think, if you look at the
horrendous refugee crisis, the people drowning by the thousands
in the Mediterranean, it makes it {so} clear that to bring
development to Africa is the only way how you can overcome this
unbelievable tragedy. And if Europe would have a right mind, they
would join! You know, rather than sending the Triton boats to
chase the refugees back, which is a complete moral bankruptcy of
Europe.
Now this is very interesting, because the big question
always comes, “who should finance all of this?” As you know,
already at the Brazil Fortaleza summit, the BRICS countries
agreed, together with some of the other countries, to create new
financial institutions: the New Development Bank of the BRICS,
the AIIB [Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank] was already
founded in last October, but also a whole set of other banks.
And it came from the idea, that when the Asia crisis happened in
’97, in which speculators like George Soros speculated against
the currencies of countries like Korea, Philippines, Thailand, in
one week up to 60-80% downward, and these countries had no
defense; so they concluded, “OK, we have to protect ourselves,”
so they created the Contingency Reserve Arrangement [CRA], which
is a pool of currencies of a $100 billion, which will defend all
of the participating countries against speculative attacks.
Now, the AIIB, the New Development Bank, the New Silk Road
Fund, the Maritime Silk Road Fund, the bank of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization [SCO Development Bank], and the SAARC
[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation] Development
Fund, are all new banks which follow a completely different
principle than Wall Street and the City of London, or Frankfurt,
for that matter. They say, we do not participate in speculation,
but we will use these funds only for investment in the real
economy, into these projects. And this is urgently needed,
because as you know, despite all of the quantitative easing of
the Federal Reserve, and now [ECB President] Mr. Draghi, who are
printing money as if there would be no tomorrow, the money does
not arrive at the industries! Because the banks, the speculators
prefer to keep the casino going, and this is actually reaching a
point where at the IMF annual spring meeting which just took
place in Washington, the IMF itself put out a report saying that
we are facing a collapse {bigger} than 2008 with the collapse of
Lehman Brothers. And several economists from J.P. Morgan and
other banks warned that you could have a simultaneous stock and
bond crisis, causing a meltdown of the system; or, if the Federal
Reserve would increase the interest rate only by a tiny, tiny
amount it could blow up the whole derivatives bubble of $2
trillion. And if the Troika and the ECB are pushing Greece out
of the Eurozone, that could also trigger a collapse, because it
would not so much hurt Greece, but it would blow up the European
banks.
So therefore, the existence of these banks are de facto a
lifeboat in the face of the immediate danger of a collapse.
Now, as you probably have noticed, when the question came,
who would be a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank, which was already constituted last October, but
the date until which countries could join as founding members was
end of March [2015]. And the United States put a lot of pressure
on the allies, not to join; they didn’t want Korea to join;
naturally, they didn’t want Europe to join, and they put maximum
pressure on Asian countries not to join. But then, it just so
happened, that the best ally of the United States, Great Britain,
was the first European country to join, and that caused a kind of
a dam break, and then Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland,
Austria, and all the Scandinavian countries joined. And the
actual founding members included 57 countries. And they
basically participate in different degrees in this new bank,
which obviously people realize that what China is offering with
the economic cooperation in these projects, is much, much more
attractive than to participate in more speculative bubbles which
eventually will pop. So, this was from the founding meeting in
October, already, but in the meantime, it become many more
states.
Now, this is also very interesting, because this is a
proposal which my husband made in 1975. It was called the
International Development Bank, and it was basically the same
idea as the AIIB, today, saying that the IMF and the World Bank
do not provide enough credit for Third World development. This
was a proposal he made in ’75, and it went into the final
resolution of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1976 in Colombo, Sri
Lanka, and it had the same idea as the AIIB.
The World Bank only spends per year $24 billion for
projects. But the actual requirement of the developing
countries, is about $8 trillion in the next years! So there is
no way the World Bank can manage that, and this bank, on the
other side, the AIIB, and the other banks will grow and will
become more productive.
Now, this is very important because what the AIIB and the
New Development Bank and this new economic system which is
emerging represent, is something completely different than
monetarism. Monetarism is the idea that you have to have maximum
profit, the real economy doesn’t count; as a matter of fact, you
all know, that if you have an industrial firm which lays of
10,000, the stock goes up! It doesn’t make any sense. In the
realm of monetarism, this is explained by the idea that the firm
becomes “more productive” because fewer workers work more, and
therefore the profit is greater; but from the standpoint of the
real economy this makes no sense at all.
And it is exactly that philosophy which has caused the
Troika to destroy Greece. What they managed to do is to reduce
the Greek economy by one-third, to increase the youth
unemployment to 65%, and people are extremely unhappy, not only
in Greece, but also in Italy, in Spain, Portugal and so forth.
What we propose, both the IDB and these new banks, is really
going back to a completely different model. It’s based on the
idea of this man, whom you all recognize, I’m sure — he is
Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States. And he created, actually, the United States, by
creating the National Bank and the credit system, because, what
he did, was after the War of Independence, the different states
in the United States were totally indebted. So he unified the
United States by taking over the debt obligations of these
states, and basically saying, it’s no longer your business, we’ll
take these debts as a Federal state, as a national state, and we
will transform that into a credit mechanism, only aimed at areal
production.
And that was really the actual founding of the United
States. And this idea of a credit system which is not
monetarism, but it is the idea that credit can only be given for
future production in the real economy, not for speculation, that
model was what made the United States a great industrial power.
Because, despite the fact that some following Presidents then
tried to dismantle it, the United States went back to it, again
and again. It was the policies of John Quincy Adams; it was the
policy of Abraham Lincoln with the greenbacks; it was the policy
of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is how Roosevelt brought the
United States out of the Depression of the ’30s by building the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. which financed the New Deal, and
that’s how America got out of the Depression. And, also, it was
the basis for the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, the
state bank, which help to finance the reconstruction and the
economic miracle of Germany in the postwar period — which was
modeled on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
So this is therefore, not something new. It’s a tested
model, it has always been the basis when there was progress in
the real economy, as compared to the financial markets. I’m not
talking about the financial markets, I’m talking about real
production for the livelihood and the common good of the people.
So the first step there, we have called for — Tom
mentioned it — that we think it is an absolute matter, actually
of war and peace, if we succeed to get the European nations {and}
America to join with this “win-win,” all-inclusive,
non-geopolitical system. And, as I said, the financial system of
Wall Street and the City of London {is} about to blow up, bigger
than 2008, and the only way how that can be avoided from leading
to a chaotic collapse, is by going back to the Glass-Steagall
legislation which was introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in
1933, which was his answer to the collapse of ’29-’33 period.
And he separated the banks, by making the commercial banks
separate from the investment banks, so that the investment bank
could not have access to assets of the commercial banks.
And this exist from 1933 until 1999 in the United States,
and in Europe you had practically the same thing, because you had
a very regulated banking sector. But the Wall Street forces did
not like it, because naturally it reduced their profit, so they
worked very hard to eliminate it, which they were able to do in
1999, and the whole super-expansion of the speculative area only
occurred after this law was eliminated. And the good news, is
that there is a right now a Presidential candidate in the United
States, who has said that his first act if he would move into the
White House, would be to reintroduce this Glass-Steagall law: And
that is the former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, about whom many
papers are writing that he has a very good chance to take the
Democratic nomination, because many people think Hillary Clinton
has made too many compromises with bad policies, when she was
Secretary of State. But, O’Malley is not alone, but you have a
whole bunch of people around him, who say the United States must
go back to being a Republic; it must go back to putting the
common good above the interests of Wall Street. And that is
really the “to be or not to be” question of the whole world.
Now, if this reorganization would take place, then, the
United States could easily join with the BRICS countries in such
efforts as the AIIB and other such things. And, as you know, the
Greek government has also demanded that there is no way how they
can pay their debt, because as you know, of all the rescue
packages which went to Greece, only 3% of that money remained in
Greece, while all the rest really went to the European banks.
And therefore, to demand that Greece should pay back these debts,
it’s just impossible! And the Greek government has made the
point that they want to have a European Debt Conference, like
Germany in 1953, without which the German economic miracle would
never have taken place. So if this all happens, and that could
happen in the short term, Europe could easily participate in
that.
Now, I just want to say, the ancient Silk Road was not only
an exchange of silk, and porcelain, and paper, printing,
gunpowder, and many, many other goods, but much more important
than that, it was an exchange of ideas and technologies: Silk
making is more important than silk; how to print books is more
important than the book. So the ancient Silk Road was an
extremely important exchange of goods and culture, and ideas, and
understanding among people — and so will be the New Silk Road,
just with modern means.
Now, if you go back to the picture, this is why we have
said, “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge” where we
have the camels, sort of symbolizing the old Silk Road, and here
you see a maglev train, and here you see a rover on the Moon, to
give you an idea that the exchange of technologies and goods in
the modern world will be the most advanced technologies to the
benefit of all of mankind.
So going back to the problem here, is, obviously, if you
look at that map, you see, these are the deserts of the world: A
very broad desert band which goes from the Atlantic coast of
Africa, through the Sahara-Sahel zone, the Arab Peninsula, the
Middle East, all the way to China. And that desert is growing.
It’s expanding. And then you have the desert in the West of the
United States, which is right now ruined by a big drought in
California, in Texas, in all the states west of the Mississippi;
and naturally, Brazil has a drought.
In the United States this is very severe. Here you have a
global water scarcity map; here you have the water stress
indicator. In the United States, just to mention that, Governor
Brown of California has just announced that the water consumption
will be cut by 25% up to 36%! Now that is the death to
Californian agriculture; in the south of California, for example,
in the Central Valley, in this region, 40% of the entire
agriculture of the United States is produced, and this is now
being completely destroyed. Here you see, this is a former
reservoir, which is almost dried up. This is the snowpack: in
2013, it was relatively, a lot of snow, and last year, no snow,
so the drought is expanding, and obviously, to cut consumption
means you kill people. I mean, you cannot cut water — where
should these people go? There are already cities and towns where
people are — it’s not just not watering their lawn — it’s
taking public showers, of getting water rations, and then
eventually people have to move away, because if there is no water
there is no life. There were already herds being transformed, of
hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, and the idea to just
accept that, and as Governor Brown said, “California historically
has only a carrying potential of 400,000 people,” is ridiculous,
because there are presently 39 million people living in
California! And the idea to say there’s only room for 400,000 is
completely ahistorical about what is the role of human beings,
who differentiate themselves from animals by being able to
increase the living capability for more people by improving
productivity, by transforming the industry, the infrastructure,
and in that way, developing the planet.
So obviously, China has taken a completely different
approach. Here you see, China is actually the only country which
has taken a very big water diversification: There is on the one
side, the Three Gorges Dam, which is now producing, I think 22
gigawatts of electricity per year, and it has eliminated flooding
which killed many thousands of people in the past; and even more
important, is the water diversification project from the southern
area of the Yangtze River through a Northern Route into the
Yellow River and the desert area of China; and the Middle Route
to the region around Beijing.
So this is actually a model which is now being followed by
Narendra Modi for India, who just agreed to make gigantic water
projects to tame the water coming down from the Himalayas, and
also making canals out of 101 Indian rivers.
Now, what most people don’t consider is, that water is not a
natural resource like iron ore, or gold, or whatever: You can’t
use up, because water is organized in global cycles, where 90% of
the precipitation rains down over the ocean, only 10% rains down
over the land. And that water, the Sun causes evaporation, this
leads to cloud formation, and then the water rains down, and it
is human activity, which can make these cycles more efficient.
It’s not just, that it rains down over land and then flows back
into the ocean. You can use it in agriculture, you can use it in
industrial production, you can use it in other urban activities,
and it is actually the ability of man to make that more
efficient.
Here you see a very interesting comparison — you see here
the water diversion of the United States. Even though the water
diversion of China has started much more recently, it’s almost
double, which shows you the completely different philosophy.
This is a very important project, which is part of the
approach to fight the desert, and this is the Lake Chad Transaqua
project, which is the idea, that you could eliminate a lot of the
drought in the Sahel zone and around Lake Chad by bringing some
of the surplus water from the headwaters region of the Congo on
the one side, through rivers and canals into Lake Chad, which has
been reduced to less than 10% right now; and also through a
second canal along the Nile to increase the agricultural land in
Africa tremendously. And also now to bring real development to
these countries, without which you will have more people running
away from Boko Haram, which is now at Lake Chad and Nigeria. And
without a real development perspective, there is no way how you
can contain these projects.
Human beings are the only species, which can improve the
conditions of mankind again and again and again, and the last
10,000 years, or 20,000 years since the last Ice Age, just think,
what an enormous development mankind has made. We have increased
the population potential of the Earth from about 5 million at
most, to presently around 7 billion. This is due to the fact that
man, unlike animals, can make new discoveries, discovers the
universal principles of our physical universe, and think things,
which have never been thought before.
Therefore, the attack on the water crisis is not just a
question of using the aquifers, because the aquifers can — they
replenish, but this goes much too slowly. It’s not only
re-diverting the rivers, dams, but it’s especially influencing
the global cyclical process of water. There is a relationship
between what happens in our Solar System and the rain. Because
the Sun, which shines on the oceans, causes evaporation, but the
Sun is not the only solar impact on the weather; it’s also the
cosmic radiation, which comes from our galaxy, which leads to
cloud formation, ionization of moisture, and therefore to rain.
That is not just something where we have to wait passively until
it happens, but we can study, for example, what is happening in
our galaxy, which influences the weather, and then understand
better, how we can create more water.
Here, you see our Solar System in a 32 million year cycle,
moving along the Milky Way. The Milky Way is basically a flat
plateau, in which our Solar System is moving up and down in
cycles, and you have a complete change in the weather patterns,
which comes from the position of our Solar System in our galaxy.
I’m not saying, that we know everything about that yet. We
know, that there is a lot of connection between the Solar System,
the galaxy and the weather patterns on our Earth, and I can
assure you, that if you look at the long-term changes in our
weather patterns, then {these} things are a lot more important,
than whatever you use in your little car as CO2 production.
Because these are forces, which are of a completely different
magnitude, and naturally, the climate is changing, but galactic
processes are really what is the cause of it.
Anyway, the idea of using cosmic rays and ionization of
moisture is already successfully being done by Israel and by some
of the Gulf States; Russia is doing a lot of research on this,
and this is, what we have to do. The reason, why I’m saying this,
is, the Silk Road is not just building railways from Dunhuang to
Lisbon or wherever; it’s not just building roads, it’s not just
building canals. The modern Silk Road, the New Silk Road is,
exactly as the old Silk Road was, {an exchange of ideas, of
technology, for the common good of all.}
Obviously, today the big challenges are world poverty, are
the danger of war, are the danger of water scarcity, which could
become the reason for new wars. So the New Silk Road — and this
is what we understand with it, and I’m sure that our Chinese
friend will show his perspective — but that is the philosophy,
which we have taken as a basis in our approach, that the New Silk
Road is {a vision}, of how humanity can move away from
geopolitics and the stupid idea that we have to fight over scarce
resources, that we have to create wars because we don’t like
another system, that we have to eventually self-destruct, but
that we have to make the evolutionary jump to the idea of the
common aims of mankind and to define the next phase of evolution
in the interest of all.
If you look at this, the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry
Rogozin of Russia just two days ago, pointed to the fact, that
the BRICS countries are all space travelling nations. China is
the leader in space travel. When China in December 2013 landed
the Yutu rover on the Moon, with was the idea, that in a few
missions later, I think it was in 2017, this Yutu — “Jade
Rabbit” — that they will bring back helium-3. Helium-3 is an
isotope, which is actually a fuel for fusion power. It’s much
more efficient than deuterium or tritium, because with this heavy
deuterium and tritium in the fusion process, you are still using
turbines, and you use turbines to create electricity in the old
way. But with helium-3 you can directly gain electricity from the
physical process of fusion power, and therefore, naturally, the
energy efficiency is much, much higher. And once we have fusion
power, for example, this will create for the first time energy
and raw materials security for the Earth. Energy security,
because on the Moon, you have several tons of helium-3, which
will be sufficient for many tens of thousands of years of energy
security on the Earth; and raw materials security, because with
the high heat of the plasma torch, you can take any waste,
including nuclear waste, including waste in your household, and
turn it back into isotopes, which you then can reconstruct and
make new raw materials.
So this is the vanguard of where mankind must go, and China
has made that its national pride. And China, contrary to Germany,
which is very stupid with respect to energy — you know, this
stupid exit from nuclear energy without having an alternative, is
completely crazy — but China has basically created a situation,
where they are in the right position to solve this problem, and
Rogozin, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, has said, that the
BRICS countries will cooperate in space to solve these problems.
So this is extremely important, because if mankind makes
that jump to not have war as a conflict resolution, which in a
time of nuclear energy, it should be obvious that we must move to
a different regime, that we must define the common aims of
mankind, that which is, — if you have seen these pictures with
astronauts and cosmonauts and taikonauts, they all report the
same: When they are in space and look at our little planet, this
blue planet, they realize that there are no borders. They also
realize that our planet is extremely small in a very big Solar
System, in an even bigger galaxy, and there are {billions} of
galaxies. So, there are dangers from space, like cosmic
radiation, like asteroids; there are all kinds of dangers, which
we don’t manage right now. But if we don’t want to have the same
fate as the dinosaurs, who became eliminated 65 million years
ago, because probably a meteorite hit the Earth and created so
much cloud cover, that all the vegetation stopped, and then the
dinosaurs, and 96% of all other species were eliminated; if we
as a creative species, {are} really the creative species, we
should put our efforts together and defend against common dangers
to our planet, common dangers to our civilization, and unite.
And there is no better image for that than space collaboration.
This whole question also has a philosophical dimension.
Because people think, China is just doing an imperial expansion,
they want to have their interests. Well, I have the deepest
conviction that what is working in China right now, especially
with President Xi Jinping, {is} the 2,500-year-old Confucian
tradition in China. And I go even so far to say the Chinese
people have Confucius in their genes. Confucius was a
philosopher, who reacted to a historical period in China, which
was characterized by war, by great unrest, by turmoil. And he
developed the Confucian philosophy, which is beautiful. I can
only advise you, in case you are not doing it, study Confucius.
Because Confucius has this idea that there must be harmony in the
world, on the planet. And that, for example, the best way to
have harmony is, there is one key notion, which is {li}, which is
the idea, that each person, each nation, should take its proper
place, and develop in the best possible way, and then you have
harmony. Because if everybody develops their creative potential
and their best maximum capacity, and takes the development of the
other as their own interest, and vice versa, then you have peace.
And that should also be based on the other notion of {ren}.
{Ren} basically means the same thing as love, or {agapë}, or the
Christian idea of charity.
And it happens to be that these ideas are also in the
European best tradition. There is a very important philosopher of
the 15th century, called Nicolaus of Cusa, who was the founder of
modern science, the founder of the modern nation-state, and he
was very important: He broke through the barrier from the Middle
Ages to modern times. Because he was actually the person, who
brought the Council of Florence into being by first finding
handwritings in Byzantium, which were then the basis for the
unification of the Orthodox Church with the Roman Church; but
when he brought the Orthodox delegation in 1453 to the Council of
Florence, he had a stroke of genius: He said, now, I am thinking
something, which no human being has ever thought before. He then
wrote his {De Docta Ignorantia}, and he developed this notion of
the coincidence of opposites, the {coincidentia oppositorum},
which was the idea, that the One has a higher quality than the
Many, and that the human mind is capable of synthesizing some
hypothesis, which gives you a deeper insight into the laws of the
universe, into Classical art — in other words, it’s the
creativity of the human mind, which is the driving force in the
development of the universe. And that’s for example, what the
Russian philosopher Vladimir Vernadsky called, that the
creativity of man is a geophysical force in the universe. Now,
what he did basically, is to say — he didn’t say it in this way,
but the effect of it was — that in order to move away from the
Middle Ages, from the Scholasticism, from the Neo-Peripatetics
and the Aristotelean ideas, you had to basically break with the
axioms of the Middle Ages thinking, and that you had to create
something basically completely new, a new method of thinking.
And I’m saying, that with the New Silk Road, we have to do
exactly that: We have to break away from money, greed,
monetarism, all of these things, which really are a decaying
culture. If you look at the European, American, Western culture,
it {is} a decaying culture. Just look at the youth culture. Look
at what our young people watch in terms of pop music, video
games, the violence, just the popular entertainment has become
really degenerate. And we have to break with that, and we have to
combine the New Silk Road economic model — which I did not go
into so much today, because I already spoke about it two months
ago here in Copenhagen — but we have to break with the whole
axiomatic of globalization and basically go for a New
Renaissance, a new cultural renaissance of thinking, which will
build on the best traditions of each country: on Confucianism,
on Vedic tradition of India, on Avicenna [Ibn Sina], and other
thinkers, Al-Farabi, Abu Al-Kindi in the Arab world; in Europe,
the great Classical music tradition, the Italian Renaissance, the
German Classical music. We just have to take the high points of
all civilizations, and study that, and start to love the culture
of the other countries, and then we will create out of this a
completely New Renaissance, which will bring mankind into a
completely new phase of evolution.
Because I do not believe, that the present condition of
mankind is, what we are here for! We are not here to kill each
other; we are not here to eat caviar, until we have it coming out
of our ears. We are here to be creative! We are here to discover
the laws of the universe, to write beautiful poems, to write
beautiful music, to celebrate the creativity of civilization. And
I think, that the idea of man in space, man going into the next
phase of the evolution of man, is really what will get us out of
this crisis. So that is, what the New Silk Road is all about.
[ovation]

Titelbillede: Dr. Liu Chunrong og Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Schiller Instituttets seminar fandt sted på Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute under Copenhagen Business School.

The Schiller Institute seminar was held at the Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute, Copenhagen Business School.

Hr. Li Xiaoguang, kinesisk meddirektør for Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute, holdt en velkomsttale.

Mr. Li Xiaoguang,  the Chinese co-director of the Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute, welcomed the participants to the Institute.

H.E. Ambassador Liu Biwei (right)

HE hr. Liu Biwei, Den kinesiske Folkerepubliks ambassadør til Kongeriget Danmark holdt åbningstalen.

His Excellency Mr. Liu Biwei, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of  China to the Kingdom of Denmark delivered opening greetings to the seminar.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, stifter og formand for det Internationale Schiller Institut, holdt en tale om ‘Den Nye Silkevej bliver til Verdenslandbroen, med introduktion v/Tom Gillesberg, formand for Schiller Instituttet i Danmark.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and president of the international Schiller Institute spoke about The New Silk Road becomes The World Land-bridge. Introduced by Tom Gillesberg, chairman of The Schiller Institute in Denmark:

Video af Zepp-LaRouches tale, med dia-billeder; en dansk oversættelse følger lige under videoen.

(Video of Zepp-LaRouches speach, with the slides included. An english transcript can be found further down the page)

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Hr. Liu Chunrong, PhD., associeret professor, School of International Public Affairs, Fundan Universitetet; eksekutiv vicedirektør for Fundan-European Centre for China Studies, Københavns Universitet, præsenterede Kinas “En Bælte, En Vej” politik.

Dr. Liu Chunrong, PhD, Associate Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, and Executive Vice Director Fudan-European Centre for China Studies, NIAS,  University of Copenhagen, presented China’s One Belt, One Road policy.

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Stor succes for Københavner-seminar om Kinas politik for »Et Bælte, En Vej«

København, 27. april 2015 – Omkring 80 mennesker deltog i dag i et seminar, som blev holdt på Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute under Copenhagen Business School.

Følgende personer var talere på seminaret:

Velkomsttale: Hr. Li Xiaoguang, kinesisk meddirektør for Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute.

HE hr. Liu Biwei, Den kinesiske Folkerepubliks ambassadør til Kongeriget Danmark – åbningstale.

Fr. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, grundlægger af og international præsident for Schiller Instituttet og en betydningsfuld medforfatter af »Den Nye Silkevej bliver til Verdenslandbroen«; mangeårig leder i LaRouche-bevægelsen og gift med den amerikanske statsmand, økonom og filosof Lyndon LaRouche; forkvinde for det tyske politiske parti Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (Borgerrettighedsbevægelsen Solidaritet), BüSo. Introduktion v/Tom Gillesberg, formand for Schiller Instituttet i Danmark.

Hr. Liu Chunrong, PhD., associeret professor, School of International Public Affairs, Fundan Universitetet; eksekutiv vicedirektør for Fundan-European Centre for China Studies, Københavns Universitet.

De ca. 80 deltagere inkluderede fem ambassadører samt diplomater fra seks andre ambassader, mange medlemmer og kontakter af Schiller Instituttet, og andre interesserede som har specielle tilknutning til Kina.

Denne konference er den tredje i rækken af ’Manhattan-projekt’-konferencer i København siden januar, som Schiller Instituttet har arrangeret. En mere udførlig rapport vil følge, inkl. links til video- og audiooptagelser.

English:

Very Successful Copenhagen Seminar on “China’s ‘One Belt,
One Road’ Policy”

The Schiller Institute in Denmark held a very successful seminar about China’s “One Belt, One Road” policy, at the Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute, attended by approximately 80 people. Video and audio recordings can be found at:  http://schillerinstitut.dk/si/?p=6387

Li Xiaoguang, the Chinese co-director of the Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute, welcomed the speakers and attendees.

The seminar participants had the honor to have opening remarks by His Excellency Mr. Liu Biwei, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Kingdom of Denmark.

The next speaker was Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder and president of The Schiller Institute, and a major author of the EIR Report “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge.” She was introduced by Tom Gillesberg, chairman of The Schiller Institute in Denmark. Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche presented the world land-bridge policy and the new BRICS paradigm, as the alternative to the danger of economic and financial collapse, and nuclear war. One area of special emphasis was the growing crisis of fresh water scarcity, counterposing the lack of action in the U.S., with the great infrastructure project approach in China.

The Chinese point of view of the “One Belt, One Road” policy was presented by Dr. Liu Chunrong, PhD, Associate Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, and Executive Vice Director Fudan-European Centre for China Studies, NIAS, University of Copenhagen.

Among the audience were: five ambassadors, plus diplomats from another six other embassies; people who have a special connection to China representing a Danish think tank, academia and businesses; plus many Schiller Institute members and contacts.

This seminar was the third in a series of Manhattan project-style Schiller Institute conferences held in Copenhagen since January.

English transcript of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s speech, and Tom Gillesberg’s introduction:

HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE ADDRESSES “CHINA’S ‘ONE BELT, ONE ROAD’
POLICY’ SEMINAR IN COPENHAGEN, April 27, 2015

Here is the transcript of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s address to the
Schiller Institute seminar in Copenhagen, which was held
Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute, Copenhagen Business
School. Click her for the audio and video from Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s speech and the other speeches from the seminar.

TOM GILLESBERG: I have the great honor of introducing Helga
Zepp-LaRouche, who has come here from a rather busy schedule both
in Germany and the United States, but also the whole world she’s
intervening to. Just as a short introduction, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche
has been since 1977 the wife and very close collaborator of
Lyndon LaRouche in the United States, the economist, philosopher,
statesman who is giving leadership in the U.S., for the U.S. to
return to the intentions of its founders, to be a promoter of
sovereign nations that can collaborate on an equal footing to
secure the benefits for all nations and peoples.
And Helga has a very, I think, close connection to China.
As a young journalist she traveled to China in 1971, in the
height of the Cultural Revolution as one of the first Western
journalists and actually saw on the spot what was going on. She
then became politically active with the LaRouche movement and
embarked on a life-long battle for a new just world economic
order, for the possibilities of development for all nations and
peoples.
She then founded, among many other things, the Schiller
Institute, in 1984. She is presently the chairwoman of the
German political party, the BüSo — the Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Solidarität, or Civil Rights Soliarity Movement. She was vry
active after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and one of the authors
of the Schiller Institute program for the development of the
world after the Iron Curtain had fallen of the program the
Paris-Berlin-Vienna Productive Triangle, a Locomotive for the
World Economy. And when that did not materialize, she was very
active in extending that program to the program for the Eurasian
Land-Bridge, going from China and Asia to Europe and having a
development of the whole region. And as part of that, she then
became a visitor many times to China to speak on the need for a
New Silk Road and actually earned her nickname in China as the
“Silk Road Lady,” for her efforts to have China embark on this
policy.
And since then, she has been also the driving force in
holding many scores of conferences in Europe and the United
States on the need for creating a paradigm shift, to get the
Western world out of its long-term economic, strategic, and
cultural crisis. And, over the last couple of years, she has
been one of the architects of this report, “The New Silk Road
Becomes the World Land-Bridge.” She has also been leading the
campaign to stop the present geopolitical games that threaten to
detonate thermonuclear war and instead get the United States and
Europe to accept the offer of the BRICS countries to join forces
in an inclusive world order, where all nations of the world, on
an equal footing, collaborate to secure the peace and development
of all nations.
So I think it’s very appropriate that you are here to
directly lay what’s going on, so please, welcome. [applause]

HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Thank you, Tom, for these kind words of
introduction.
Well I have a certain dilemma, because I want to present to
you the potential, which lies in this program, and given the fact
that the Western media have reported very little about it, I have
a dilemma, that I need to tell you, that this is {the} most
important political initiative on the planet right now. The
dilemma comes from the fact that, by introducing this idea, have
to tell you immediately why this is the case, and that is the
reality, that the world is much more close to a new global war,
than most people have an inkling of. And this New Silk Road
initiative, which comes from China, but which in the meantime has
been joined by many countries, is the only available
war-avoidance policy.
Now there was just on the April 18- 19 in Moscow the Fourth
Moscow International Security Conference, and the main subject of
this conference was the danger of nuclear war. And this is a
reaction to the fact that NATO has been expanding eastward, up to
the borders of Russia. You have a whole bunch of strategic
doctrines which Russia regards as a threat to their security
interests, and naturally you have the horrendous situation in
Ukraine, which contrary to what the Western media have been
reporting on — or not reporting actually — is it’s really
something which the West must make up. I just participated in the
last two days, or Friday and Saturday in a conference in
Baden-Baden in Germany, the German-Russian Cultural Days. It’s an
annual conference, and there was a large gathering of German
industrialists and Russian speakers and Russian people. And we
had the fortune to have a videoconference connected to this
conference, which brought in a live program from the former Prime
Minister of Ukraine, Mr. [Mykola] Azarov. And he gave an
absolutely hair-raising report about the conditions in Ukraine,
the fact that the country is being torn apart. Political leaders
are either forced to go into exile or are threatened to be
assassinated; journalists are being killed openly in the street;
trenches are being built; and, as you know, American soldiers are
now training the National Guard, which has a lot of Nazi
components in it. And for the Russians this is extremely severe,
because we are shortly before the 70th anniversary of the end of
Nazism and the end of the Second World War, and the mood of the
people were really horrified to see this endorsement of Nazis 70
years after the Second World War.
Now, I don’t want to go into this in depth, we can do that
in the discussion if people have questions about it, but I think
this crisis, in Ukraine in particular, I could also point to the
Middle East, which is in a similar horrible condition, makes
very, very clear, that if we as humanity cannot move away from
geopolitics — geopolitics was the reason for two world wars in
the 20th century, and right now the continuation of geopolitics
is threatening a new global war. I just want to mention an
article in {New York Times} from 19th April, where two generals,
Gen. James Cartwright, who is former head of the U.S. Strategic
Command, and Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin, who is the chief of
intelligence of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, they penned
together an article, In which they said that the world has never
been so close to the danger of nuclear war globally, and
therefore extinction, as right now. And the reason is obviously
that even the normal code of behavior among nations, which
existed in the Cold War, that you had a red telephone between
Kennedy and Khrushchev, this no longer exists; and you have the
two nuclear forces, from NATO and the West and Russia, all the
time on launch on warning. And launch on warning means there are
only a few minutes time, if one side perceives a launch, either
by intention or by accident, they have a few minutes, actually
it’s estimated three minutes’ time, to respond or be eliminated.
So that shows you how extremely close we are to the danger
of a global extinction of civilization. Because if this would
happen, we would not exist as humanity. And I’m saying it with
that gravity, to say that this calls all the more urgently, for a
different approach. And the different approach must be to move
away from geopolitics and move in the direction of the common
aims of mankind.
And it just happens to be, that the policies which are
proposed by President Xi Jinping, which he calls a “win-win”
policy, is exactly that. It’s the idea, that with the New Silk
Road, you have a policy where every country which participates in
it, will have a benefit for it. The New Silk Road, Maritime Silk
Road policy by China is {not} a new imperial policy replacing the
Anglo-American imperial policy, but it is a completely new model
of the nations among nations, where the enormous example of the
Chinese economic miracle, which China was able to develop in the
last 30 years — you know, where China in {30 years}, developed
as much as most industrial nations needed 100 or 200 years to
develop — and China is now offering to export that model and
have other countries benefit in a similar way from that kind of
economic miracle, which China did.
Can you move to the first slide?
So the world has changed since July last year, the summit of
the BRICS countries in Fortaleza in Brazil. And this is a
picture which was made at this occasion, showing the leaders of
Russia, India, Brazil, China and South Africa. And they basically
concluded a new strategic alliance — economic alliance, which
Prime Minister Modi characterized in the following way: He said,
“This is the first alliance of nations, which are not defined by
their current capacity, but by their future potential of
development.” And at another occasion, Modi said that the biggest
potential of India is, that 60% of its people are below 30 years
of age, and therefore, if they are well-educated and developed,
they can come to the help of other nations, which has demographic
problems, like Germany, for example.
What these countries did, is they concluded an enormous
amount of economic treaties, of economic cooperation, including
peaceful development of inherently safe nuclear energy, the
development of fusion energy, joint space projects, space travel,
and numerous other high-tech cooperation areas.
Then, the next day, they met with the leaders of South
America, the organizations of CELAC [Community of Latin American
and Caribbean States] and Unasur [Union of South American
Nations]. Then a little bit later they also had meetings with
countries of ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] and
actually you have now a completely parallel system of economics,
which is really going to be the infrastructure development of the
world.
Now this here is an official picture of the New Silk Road
and the Maritime Silk Road, which shows you the old Silk Road
from Xi’an, actually it goes even farther to the west,
Lianyungang, where the end of that Silk Road is on the China Sea,
all the way through Urumqi, then Central Asia into Europe; and
then Maritime Silk Road is actually connecting even Africa and
much of the Pacific also into Europe. And this is modelled on the
famous Maritime Silk Road of the 15th century, which connected
the nations of the world already at that time.
Now, I want to very quickly say that this made us very
happy, when Xi Jinping announced the New Silk Road in Kazakhstan
in 2013, we jumped that high — you know, in the Schiller
Institute — because we had promoted this idea. This was our
proposal when the Berlin Wall came down, in ’89, and the wall no
longer was there. So we said let’s connect Paris with Berlin and
Vienna, which is a triangular area of the size of Japan, and has
the highest concentration of industrial capacity in the world;
and let’s make corridors to Warsaw, to Kiev, to the Balkans. And
it would have been a perfect way to intervene.
Unfortunately at that time, despite the fact there was a
very good resonance, you had Bush Sr., you had Margaret
Thatcher, and they had completely different ideas: They wanted to
reduce Russia from a superpower to at Third World, raw
materials-exporting country, and therefore they introduced the
shock-therapy, instead, which dismantled the Russian industrial
potential between ’91-’94, to only 30% left.
But then, when in ’91, the Soviet Union collapsed, we
connected this triangle, Paris-Berlin-Vienna, and we said: OK,
now the Iron Curtain is gone, now we can have development
corridors connecting the population and industrial centers of
Europe with those of Asia, through corridors. And then we looked
at the best geographical conditions. I should say, we were
inspired very much by the railway program of Sun Yat-sen, the
founder of modern China, who had developed a whole network of
Chinese railways, and that went into this program. So, at that
time we said let’s look at the best geographical preconditions,
and we found, not so accidentally, that the old Trans-Siberian
Railroad and the old Silk Road, the ancient Silk Road, had the
best geographical conditions to build such infrastructure.
So at that point the shock therapy started to destroy
Russia’s economy, but we kept holding seminars — we had hundreds
of seminars, in Europe, in United States, and then, eventually,
in Warsaw, in Budapest, in Moscow. And in ’96 even in Beijing,
where the Chinese government had responded to our proposal to all
the governments, to hold a big conference promoting the regions
along the Silk Road. And I was there as a speaker, but then came
the Asia Crisis in ’97, and China, at that conference said, that
this will be the long-term strategy for China until 2010. But
then the Asia crisis brought chaos and then the Russian GKO
crisis [in ’98].
So in the mean time we kept working on this initial proposal
which grew. And the latest of this, is this report: It’s a
370-page study which is really the idea of connecting the world
through infrastructure corridors.
Now, here you see some of these projects, which are already
being built, by the BRICS, by some of the other countries — for
example China is now building a transcontinental railroad from
Brazil to Peru, this is letter A [on the map]. This has already
started — you know, Latin America does not have an
infrastructure network! It is still in the colonial condition,
where you have little railroads from the iron ore mountain to the
coast, but if you want to travel from Peru to Brazil, you have to
go via Miami. So this is the idea, to develop a continental
railroad system.
Then number 1 there is the canal built in Nicaragua, it will
be the second Panama Canal, which obviously is an extremely
important project, which will mean that Nicaragua has a very good
chance to become an industrial country, with improving living
standards of its population. Naturally the Greenies are going
crazy and they say there are two fishermen who have to be
resettled. But, first of all, these people will be compensated,
and secondly without infrastructure, there is {no} industrial
development; without infrastructure there is not even
agriculture, because without infrastructure you cannot transport
and process food.
So then, naturally you have the Bering Strait, this number
2. This has been recently announced by Vladimir Yakunin, who is
the head of Russian Railways. And he proposed (I don’t think I
have that slide), a fast train connection from London all the way
through the Bering Strait to New York. A couple of years ago, Mr.
LaRouche and I participated in a conference in Moscow where the
fathers of the Bering Strait Project were present. These were all
older men over 80, and they said: “Oh, in 20 years, we can go
with a maglev train from Acapulco through the Bering Strait to
Mumbai, and this will be much faster than you can go by ship
today,” and they had a very pioneering spirit.
So this is very important because this connection not only
would connect the transport lines of North America with those of
Eurasia, but it would be absolutely crucial to open up the Arctic
Region. In the Far East of Russia you have all the raw materials
which are in the periodic table of Mendeleyev, and they represent
for the next 100 years a very important raw-material potential
which will be important not only for Russia, but for Europe, for
the United States, for China, for Japan, for Korea. So this will
be the way to develop it, because these raw-material are in
permafrost conditions, and you have to build, you have to build
cities, which have a dome, because people have to live — you
cannot live in permanfrost conditions like that, you have to have
a special way of developing it.
Now, I could go into many other projects — the Seikan
tunnel between the Japanese islands does already exist, it
connects the two important islands in Japan. Then the Bohai
Tunnel will connect two Chinese cities and shorten the transport.
The brown line there, this is the actual Silk Road [Silk Road
Economic Belt], which is now being promoted by China; this larger
gray line is the [21st-Century] Maritime Silk Road; but as you
can see, it stretches all the way to Europe and into Africa.
Prime Minister Li Keqiang was several times last year in Africa,
and he proposed to connect all African capitals through a fast
train system. And I know from many Africans, leaders and leading
politicians, they are very happy about that, because Africa right
now urgently needs development. And I think, if you look at the
horrendous refugee crisis, the people drowning by the thousands
in the Mediterranean, it makes it {so} clear that to bring
development to Africa is the only way how you can overcome this
unbelievable tragedy. And if Europe would have a right mind, they
would join! You know, rather than sending the Triton boats to
chase the refugees back, which is a complete moral bankruptcy of
Europe.
Now this is very interesting, because the big question
always comes, “who should finance all of this?” As you know,
already at the Brazil Fortaleza summit, the BRICS countries
agreed, together with some of the other countries, to create new
financial institutions: the New Development Bank of the BRICS,
the AIIB [Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank] was already
founded in last October, but also a whole set of other banks.
And it came from the idea, that when the Asia crisis happened in
’97, in which speculators like George Soros speculated against
the currencies of countries like Korea, Philippines, Thailand, in
one week up to 60-80% downward, and these countries had no
defense; so they concluded, “OK, we have to protect ourselves,”
so they created the Contingency Reserve Arrangement [CRA], which
is a pool of currencies of a $100 billion, which will defend all
of the participating countries against speculative attacks.
Now, the AIIB, the New Development Bank, the New Silk Road
Fund, the Maritime Silk Road Fund, the bank of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization [SCO Development Bank], and the SAARC
[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation] Development
Fund, are all new banks which follow a completely different
principle than Wall Street and the City of London, or Frankfurt,
for that matter. They say, we do not participate in speculation,
but we will use these funds only for investment in the real
economy, into these projects. And this is urgently needed,
because as you know, despite all of the quantitative easing of
the Federal Reserve, and now [ECB President] Mr. Draghi, who are
printing money as if there would be no tomorrow, the money does
not arrive at the industries! Because the banks, the speculators
prefer to keep the casino going, and this is actually reaching a
point where at the IMF annual spring meeting which just took
place in Washington, the IMF itself put out a report saying that
we are facing a collapse {bigger} than 2008 with the collapse of
Lehman Brothers. And several economists from J.P. Morgan and
other banks warned that you could have a simultaneous stock and
bond crisis, causing a meltdown of the system; or, if the Federal
Reserve would increase the interest rate only by a tiny, tiny
amount it could blow up the whole derivatives bubble of $2
trillion. And if the Troika and the ECB are pushing Greece out
of the Eurozone, that could also trigger a collapse, because it
would not so much hurt Greece, but it would blow up the European
banks.
So therefore, the existence of these banks are de facto a
lifeboat in the face of the immediate danger of a collapse.
Now, as you probably have noticed, when the question came,
who would be a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank, which was already constituted last October, but
the date until which countries could join as founding members was
end of March [2015]. And the United States put a lot of pressure
on the allies, not to join; they didn’t want Korea to join;
naturally, they didn’t want Europe to join, and they put maximum
pressure on Asian countries not to join. But then, it just so
happened, that the best ally of the United States, Great Britain,
was the first European country to join, and that caused a kind of
a dam break, and then Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland,
Austria, and all the Scandinavian countries joined. And the
actual founding members included 57 countries. And they
basically participate in different degrees in this new bank,
which obviously people realize that what China is offering with
the economic cooperation in these projects, is much, much more
attractive than to participate in more speculative bubbles which
eventually will pop. So, this was from the founding meeting in
October, already, but in the meantime, it become many more
states.
Now, this is also very interesting, because this is a
proposal which my husband made in 1975. It was called the
International Development Bank, and it was basically the same
idea as the AIIB, today, saying that the IMF and the World Bank
do not provide enough credit for Third World development. This
was a proposal he made in ’75, and it went into the final
resolution of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1976 in Colombo, Sri
Lanka, and it had the same idea as the AIIB.
The World Bank only spends per year $24 billion for
projects. But the actual requirement of the developing
countries, is about $8 trillion in the next years! So there is
no way the World Bank can manage that, and this bank, on the
other side, the AIIB, and the other banks will grow and will
become more productive.
Now, this is very important because what the AIIB and the
New Development Bank and this new economic system which is
emerging represent, is something completely different than
monetarism. Monetarism is the idea that you have to have maximum
profit, the real economy doesn’t count; as a matter of fact, you
all know, that if you have an industrial firm which lays of
10,000, the stock goes up! It doesn’t make any sense. In the
realm of monetarism, this is explained by the idea that the firm
becomes “more productive” because fewer workers work more, and
therefore the profit is greater; but from the standpoint of the
real economy this makes no sense at all.
And it is exactly that philosophy which has caused the
Troika to destroy Greece. What they managed to do is to reduce
the Greek economy by one-third, to increase the youth
unemployment to 65%, and people are extremely unhappy, not only
in Greece, but also in Italy, in Spain, Portugal and so forth.
What we propose, both the IDB and these new banks, is really
going back to a completely different model. It’s based on the
idea of this man, whom you all recognize, I’m sure — he is
Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States. And he created, actually, the United States, by
creating the National Bank and the credit system, because, what
he did, was after the War of Independence, the different states
in the United States were totally indebted. So he unified the
United States by taking over the debt obligations of these
states, and basically saying, it’s no longer your business, we’ll
take these debts as a Federal state, as a national state, and we
will transform that into a credit mechanism, only aimed at areal
production.
And that was really the actual founding of the United
States. And this idea of a credit system which is not
monetarism, but it is the idea that credit can only be given for
future production in the real economy, not for speculation, that
model was what made the United States a great industrial power.
Because, despite the fact that some following Presidents then
tried to dismantle it, the United States went back to it, again
and again. It was the policies of John Quincy Adams; it was the
policy of Abraham Lincoln with the greenbacks; it was the policy
of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is how Roosevelt brought the
United States out of the Depression of the ’30s by building the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. which financed the New Deal, and
that’s how America got out of the Depression. And, also, it was
the basis for the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, the
state bank, which help to finance the reconstruction and the
economic miracle of Germany in the postwar period — which was
modeled on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
So this is therefore, not something new. It’s a tested
model, it has always been the basis when there was progress in
the real economy, as compared to the financial markets. I’m not
talking about the financial markets, I’m talking about real
production for the livelihood and the common good of the people.
So the first step there, we have called for — Tom
mentioned it — that we think it is an absolute matter, actually
of war and peace, if we succeed to get the European nations {and}
America to join with this “win-win,” all-inclusive,
non-geopolitical system. And, as I said, the financial system of
Wall Street and the City of London {is} about to blow up, bigger
than 2008, and the only way how that can be avoided from leading
to a chaotic collapse, is by going back to the Glass-Steagall
legislation which was introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in
1933, which was his answer to the collapse of ’29-’33 period.
And he separated the banks, by making the commercial banks
separate from the investment banks, so that the investment bank
could not have access to assets of the commercial banks.
And this exist from 1933 until 1999 in the United States,
and in Europe you had practically the same thing, because you had
a very regulated banking sector. But the Wall Street forces did
not like it, because naturally it reduced their profit, so they
worked very hard to eliminate it, which they were able to do in
1999, and the whole super-expansion of the speculative area only
occurred after this law was eliminated. And the good news, is
that there is a right now a Presidential candidate in the United
States, who has said that his first act if he would move into the
White House, would be to reintroduce this Glass-Steagall law: And
that is the former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, about whom many
papers are writing that he has a very good chance to take the
Democratic nomination, because many people think Hillary Clinton
has made too many compromises with bad policies, when she was
Secretary of State. But, O’Malley is not alone, but you have a
whole bunch of people around him, who say the United States must
go back to being a Republic; it must go back to putting the
common good above the interests of Wall Street. And that is
really the “to be or not to be” question of the whole world.
Now, if this reorganization would take place, then, the
United States could easily join with the BRICS countries in such
efforts as the AIIB and other such things. And, as you know, the
Greek government has also demanded that there is no way how they
can pay their debt, because as you know, of all the rescue
packages which went to Greece, only 3% of that money remained in
Greece, while all the rest really went to the European banks.
And therefore, to demand that Greece should pay back these debts,
it’s just impossible! And the Greek government has made the
point that they want to have a European Debt Conference, like
Germany in 1953, without which the German economic miracle would
never have taken place. So if this all happens, and that could
happen in the short term, Europe could easily participate in
that.
Now, I just want to say, the ancient Silk Road was not only
an exchange of silk, and porcelain, and paper, printing,
gunpowder, and many, many other goods, but much more important
than that, it was an exchange of ideas and technologies: Silk
making is more important than silk; how to print books is more
important than the book. So the ancient Silk Road was an
extremely important exchange of goods and culture, and ideas, and
understanding among people — and so will be the New Silk Road,
just with modern means.
Now, if you go back to the picture, this is why we have
said, “The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land-Bridge” where we
have the camels, sort of symbolizing the old Silk Road, and here
you see a maglev train, and here you see a rover on the Moon, to
give you an idea that the exchange of technologies and goods in
the modern world will be the most advanced technologies to the
benefit of all of mankind.
So going back to the problem here, is, obviously, if you
look at that map, you see, these are the deserts of the world: A
very broad desert band which goes from the Atlantic coast of
Africa, through the Sahara-Sahel zone, the Arab Peninsula, the
Middle East, all the way to China. And that desert is growing.
It’s expanding. And then you have the desert in the West of the
United States, which is right now ruined by a big drought in
California, in Texas, in all the states west of the Mississippi;
and naturally, Brazil has a drought.
In the United States this is very severe. Here you have a
global water scarcity map; here you have the water stress
indicator. In the United States, just to mention that, Governor
Brown of California has just announced that the water consumption
will be cut by 25% up to 36%! Now that is the death to
Californian agriculture; in the south of California, for example,
in the Central Valley, in this region, 40% of the entire
agriculture of the United States is produced, and this is now
being completely destroyed. Here you see, this is a former
reservoir, which is almost dried up. This is the snowpack: in
2013, it was relatively, a lot of snow, and last year, no snow,
so the drought is expanding, and obviously, to cut consumption
means you kill people. I mean, you cannot cut water — where
should these people go? There are already cities and towns where
people are — it’s not just not watering their lawn — it’s
taking public showers, of getting water rations, and then
eventually people have to move away, because if there is no water
there is no life. There were already herds being transformed, of
hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, and the idea to just
accept that, and as Governor Brown said, “California historically
has only a carrying potential of 400,000 people,” is ridiculous,
because there are presently 39 million people living in
California! And the idea to say there’s only room for 400,000 is
completely ahistorical about what is the role of human beings,
who differentiate themselves from animals by being able to
increase the living capability for more people by improving
productivity, by transforming the industry, the infrastructure,
and in that way, developing the planet.
So obviously, China has taken a completely different
approach. Here you see, China is actually the only country which
has taken a very big water diversification: There is on the one
side, the Three Gorges Dam, which is now producing, I think 22
gigawatts of electricity per year, and it has eliminated flooding
which killed many thousands of people in the past; and even more
important, is the water diversification project from the southern
area of the Yangtze River through a Northern Route into the
Yellow River and the desert area of China; and the Middle Route
to the region around Beijing.
So this is actually a model which is now being followed by
Narendra Modi for India, who just agreed to make gigantic water
projects to tame the water coming down from the Himalayas, and
also making canals out of 101 Indian rivers.
Now, what most people don’t consider is, that water is not a
natural resource like iron ore, or gold, or whatever: You can’t
use up, because water is organized in global cycles, where 90% of
the precipitation rains down over the ocean, only 10% rains down
over the land. And that water, the Sun causes evaporation, this
leads to cloud formation, and then the water rains down, and it
is human activity, which can make these cycles more efficient.
It’s not just, that it rains down over land and then flows back
into the ocean. You can use it in agriculture, you can use it in
industrial production, you can use it in other urban activities,
and it is actually the ability of man to make that more
efficient.
Here you see a very interesting comparison — you see here
the water diversion of the United States. Even though the water
diversion of China has started much more recently, it’s almost
double, which shows you the completely different philosophy.
This is a very important project, which is part of the
approach to fight the desert, and this is the Lake Chad Transaqua
project, which is the idea, that you could eliminate a lot of the
drought in the Sahel zone and around Lake Chad by bringing some
of the surplus water from the headwaters region of the Congo on
the one side, through rivers and canals into Lake Chad, which has
been reduced to less than 10% right now; and also through a
second canal along the Nile to increase the agricultural land in
Africa tremendously. And also now to bring real development to
these countries, without which you will have more people running
away from Boko Haram, which is now at Lake Chad and Nigeria. And
without a real development perspective, there is no way how you
can contain these projects.
Human beings are the only species, which can improve the
conditions of mankind again and again and again, and the last
10,000 years, or 20,000 years since the last Ice Age, just think,
what an enormous development mankind has made. We have increased
the population potential of the Earth from about 5 million at
most, to presently around 7 billion. This is due to the fact that
man, unlike animals, can make new discoveries, discovers the
universal principles of our physical universe, and think things,
which have never been thought before.
Therefore, the attack on the water crisis is not just a
question of using the aquifers, because the aquifers can — they
replenish, but this goes much too slowly. It’s not only
re-diverting the rivers, dams, but it’s especially influencing
the global cyclical process of water. There is a relationship
between what happens in our Solar System and the rain. Because
the Sun, which shines on the oceans, causes evaporation, but the
Sun is not the only solar impact on the weather; it’s also the
cosmic radiation, which comes from our galaxy, which leads to
cloud formation, ionization of moisture, and therefore to rain.
That is not just something where we have to wait passively until
it happens, but we can study, for example, what is happening in
our galaxy, which influences the weather, and then understand
better, how we can create more water.
Here, you see our Solar System in a 32 million year cycle,
moving along the Milky Way. The Milky Way is basically a flat
plateau, in which our Solar System is moving up and down in
cycles, and you have a complete change in the weather patterns,
which comes from the position of our Solar System in our galaxy.
I’m not saying, that we know everything about that yet. We
know, that there is a lot of connection between the Solar System,
the galaxy and the weather patterns on our Earth, and I can
assure you, that if you look at the long-term changes in our
weather patterns, then {these} things are a lot more important,
than whatever you use in your little car as CO2 production.
Because these are forces, which are of a completely different
magnitude, and naturally, the climate is changing, but galactic
processes are really what is the cause of it.
Anyway, the idea of using cosmic rays and ionization of
moisture is already successfully being done by Israel and by some
of the Gulf States; Russia is doing a lot of research on this,
and this is, what we have to do. The reason, why I’m saying this,
is, the Silk Road is not just building railways from Dunhuang to
Lisbon or wherever; it’s not just building roads, it’s not just
building canals. The modern Silk Road, the New Silk Road is,
exactly as the old Silk Road was, {an exchange of ideas, of
technology, for the common good of all.}
Obviously, today the big challenges are world poverty, are
the danger of war, are the danger of water scarcity, which could
become the reason for new wars. So the New Silk Road — and this
is what we understand with it, and I’m sure that our Chinese
friend will show his perspective — but that is the philosophy,
which we have taken as a basis in our approach, that the New Silk
Road is {a vision}, of how humanity can move away from
geopolitics and the stupid idea that we have to fight over scarce
resources, that we have to create wars because we don’t like
another system, that we have to eventually self-destruct, but
that we have to make the evolutionary jump to the idea of the
common aims of mankind and to define the next phase of evolution
in the interest of all.
If you look at this, the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry
Rogozin of Russia just two days ago, pointed to the fact, that
the BRICS countries are all space travelling nations. China is
the leader in space travel. When China in December 2013 landed
the Yutu rover on the Moon, with was the idea, that in a few
missions later, I think it was in 2017, this Yutu — “Jade
Rabbit” — that they will bring back helium-3. Helium-3 is an
isotope, which is actually a fuel for fusion power. It’s much
more efficient than deuterium or tritium, because with this heavy
deuterium and tritium in the fusion process, you are still using
turbines, and you use turbines to create electricity in the old
way. But with helium-3 you can directly gain electricity from the
physical process of fusion power, and therefore, naturally, the
energy efficiency is much, much higher. And once we have fusion
power, for example, this will create for the first time energy
and raw materials security for the Earth. Energy security,
because on the Moon, you have several tons of helium-3, which
will be sufficient for many tens of thousands of years of energy
security on the Earth; and raw materials security, because with
the high heat of the plasma torch, you can take any waste,
including nuclear waste, including waste in your household, and
turn it back into isotopes, which you then can reconstruct and
make new raw materials.
So this is the vanguard of where mankind must go, and China
has made that its national pride. And China, contrary to Germany,
which is very stupid with respect to energy — you know, this
stupid exit from nuclear energy without having an alternative, is
completely crazy — but China has basically created a situation,
where they are in the right position to solve this problem, and
Rogozin, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, has said, that the
BRICS countries will cooperate in space to solve these problems.
So this is extremely important, because if mankind makes
that jump to not have war as a conflict resolution, which in a
time of nuclear energy, it should be obvious that we must move to
a different regime, that we must define the common aims of
mankind, that which is, — if you have seen these pictures with
astronauts and cosmonauts and taikonauts, they all report the
same: When they are in space and look at our little planet, this
blue planet, they realize that there are no borders. They also
realize that our planet is extremely small in a very big Solar
System, in an even bigger galaxy, and there are {billions} of
galaxies. So, there are dangers from space, like cosmic
radiation, like asteroids; there are all kinds of dangers, which
we don’t manage right now. But if we don’t want to have the same
fate as the dinosaurs, who became eliminated 65 million years
ago, because probably a meteorite hit the Earth and created so
much cloud cover, that all the vegetation stopped, and then the
dinosaurs, and 96% of all other species were eliminated; if we
as a creative species, {are} really the creative species, we
should put our efforts together and defend against common dangers
to our planet, common dangers to our civilization, and unite.
And there is no better image for that than space collaboration.
This whole question also has a philosophical dimension.
Because people think, China is just doing an imperial expansion,
they want to have their interests. Well, I have the deepest
conviction that what is working in China right now, especially
with President Xi Jinping, {is} the 2,500-year-old Confucian
tradition in China. And I go even so far to say the Chinese
people have Confucius in their genes. Confucius was a
philosopher, who reacted to a historical period in China, which
was characterized by war, by great unrest, by turmoil. And he
developed the Confucian philosophy, which is beautiful. I can
only advise you, in case you are not doing it, study Confucius.
Because Confucius has this idea that there must be harmony in the
world, on the planet. And that, for example, the best way to
have harmony is, there is one key notion, which is {li}, which is
the idea, that each person, each nation, should take its proper
place, and develop in the best possible way, and then you have
harmony. Because if everybody develops their creative potential
and their best maximum capacity, and takes the development of the
other as their own interest, and vice versa, then you have peace.
And that should also be based on the other notion of {ren}.
{Ren} basically means the same thing as love, or {agapë}, or the
Christian idea of charity.
And it happens to be that these ideas are also in the
European best tradition. There is a very important philosopher of
the 15th century, called Nicolaus of Cusa, who was the founder of
modern science, the founder of the modern nation-state, and he
was very important: He broke through the barrier from the Middle
Ages to modern times. Because he was actually the person, who
brought the Council of Florence into being by first finding
handwritings in Byzantium, which were then the basis for the
unification of the Orthodox Church with the Roman Church; but
when he brought the Orthodox delegation in 1453 to the Council of
Florence, he had a stroke of genius: He said, now, I am thinking
something, which no human being has ever thought before. He then
wrote his {De Docta Ignorantia}, and he developed this notion of
the coincidence of opposites, the {coincidentia oppositorum},
which was the idea, that the One has a higher quality than the
Many, and that the human mind is capable of synthesizing some
hypothesis, which gives you a deeper insight into the laws of the
universe, into Classical art — in other words, it’s the
creativity of the human mind, which is the driving force in the
development of the universe. And that’s for example, what the
Russian philosopher Vladimir Vernadsky called, that the
creativity of man is a geophysical force in the universe. Now,
what he did basically, is to say — he didn’t say it in this way,
but the effect of it was — that in order to move away from the
Middle Ages, from the Scholasticism, from the Neo-Peripatetics
and the Aristotelean ideas, you had to basically break with the
axioms of the Middle Ages thinking, and that you had to create
something basically completely new, a new method of thinking.
And I’m saying, that with the New Silk Road, we have to do
exactly that: We have to break away from money, greed,
monetarism, all of these things, which really are a decaying
culture. If you look at the European, American, Western culture,
it {is} a decaying culture. Just look at the youth culture. Look
at what our young people watch in terms of pop music, video
games, the violence, just the popular entertainment has become
really degenerate. And we have to break with that, and we have to
combine the New Silk Road economic model — which I did not go
into so much today, because I already spoke about it two months
ago here in Copenhagen — but we have to break with the whole
axiomatic of globalization and basically go for a New
Renaissance, a new cultural renaissance of thinking, which will
build on the best traditions of each country: on Confucianism,
on Vedic tradition of India, on Avicenna [Ibn Sina], and other
thinkers, Al-Farabi, Abu Al-Kindi in the Arab world; in Europe,
the great Classical music tradition, the Italian Renaissance, the
German Classical music. We just have to take the high points of
all civilizations, and study that, and start to love the culture
of the other countries, and then we will create out of this a
completely New Renaissance, which will bring mankind into a
completely new phase of evolution.
Because I do not believe, that the present condition of
mankind is, what we are here for! We are not here to kill each
other; we are not here to eat caviar, until we have it coming out
of our ears. We are here to be creative! We are here to discover
the laws of the universe, to write beautiful poems, to write
beautiful music, to celebrate the creativity of civilization. And
I think, that the idea of man in space, man going into the next
phase of the evolution of man, is really what will get us out of
this crisis. So that is, what the New Silk Road is all about.
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The following is a transcript of Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s remarks to an EIR diplomatic and business meeting in New York, Thursday, April 16th. A transcript of Deniston’s presentation will be available soon.

HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Yes, hello. There is something very, very fantastic happening in the world right now, and those of you in America, who are only dependent on the mainstream media, may have absolutely no inkling of it, because the mainstream media are not reporting about the fact that a completely new economic system is emerging. And it is emerging with extremely rapid speed. And more than half of humanity is already participating in it.

BRICS leaders in Fortaleza, Brazil, July, 2014.

First slide. Now, the first system has been initiated by the leaders of the BRICS nations, at the Fortaleza summit in Brazil last July.

Next slide. And they proceeded very quickly to establish the New Silk Road and the Maritime Silk road, and a whole system of relations with South America, with ASEAN countries, with African countries, and in the recent period, even with European countries. And this new model is basically establishing a completely new system of relations; it’s what the Chinese President Xi Jinping often calls a “win-win” policy, or even a “win-win-win” policy, depending how many parties are participating in these projects. And it is based on the idea that, through the development of basic infrastructure, of scientific and technological cooperation, and an increase in connectivity among these nations, that this will lead to the mutual benefit of all participating countries.

China’s ‘New Silk Road’ and ‘Maritime Silk Road’ Initiatives

Now, this annual summit of the Boao Forum on the island of Hainan—the Boao Forum is the Asian equivalent of what normally takes place in Davos in Switzerland, except that the difference is that in Davos, you have a lot of bankers and a lot of monetarists coming together, while this Boao Forum brought together many, many leaders, especially of Asia, who were all interested in real economic development, in infrastructure, and cooperation. And there, at this forum, President Xi Jinping announced what they are now calling the “One Belt, One Road,” which is simply another word for the New Silk Road, or, as we called it, the Eurasian Land-Bridge in the past, and announced a global perspective for development.

This includes huge infrastructure programs, corridors; high-speed railway; waterways and ports. And this report was declared to be the official policy by the National Development and Reform Commission, as well as the Foreign Ministry and the Commerce Ministry of China.

As you can see here, this is a vast, vast network of corridors connecting China, Central Asia, Russia—all the way to Europe. Then another set of corridors from Central Asia, to West Asia, into the Gulf, and the Mediterranean. Then the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road involves sea and land corridors from China, to Southeast Asia, to South Asia, to the Indian Ocean, and to the Pacific. Then other corridors go overland from China to Mongolia, to Russia. Another one to Bangladesh, China, India, and Myanmar.

So, what goes along with that is a whole new system, a really world new system, of banks and financial credit institutions, to finance these and other projects.

Now, people were quite astounded about the sea change which recently took place when the AIIB went into the final negotiations about who would be among the founding members, basically which concluded a couple of days ago. And lo and behold, the AIIB had 57 founding members. Now the United States government, misjudging the situation dramatically, put utmost pressure on their allies, and also developing countries, under those circumstances, not to be part of the AIIB. And despite this heavy pressure from the U.S., the first country in Europe to join was, of all places, Great Britain, the firm ally of the United States. And when Great Britain joined, you had a complete avalanche of countries going in the same direction, wanting to become founding members of the AIIB: Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, all the Scandinavian countries—and naturally, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, and many other Asian countries.

China was very emphatic to point out the fact that, despite the fact that the AIIB obviously has been created as a supplement to the IMF and the World Bank, that China does not want to turn the AIIB into a geopolitical confrontation with the United States, and they have reiterated, both from the government and also leading Chinese publications many times, the offer that the United States and European countries should join the AIIB, the New Development Bank, and also the projects of the New Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road. Because China is developing a new model of international relationships, which is all-inclusive, which is overcoming and superseding the concept of geopolitics, which, after all, was the basis for two World Wars in the 20th century.

Now, the New Development Bank, which is also a similar bank, created by the BRICS in Fortaleza in Brazil last year—it was decided to found it—will be functioning this year in July, at the next BRICS summit, which will take place in Ufa in Russia. So, at that point, you will have basically two operational large infrastructure banks. But then you also have the New Silk Road development fund, which as $40 billion; the AIIB and the New Development Bank have initial capital of $100 billion each—but that is just the beginning, starting capital. The New Silk Road fund has $40 billion; the New Maritime Silk Roads Fund, $20 billion. But then also the countries of the South Asian region, the SAARC countries, are planning to build their own development bank. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is building a new bank.

And then, these countries have jointly decided to create something which is called the Contingency Reserve Arrangement. Now this is a pool of currency reserves, of $100 billion initially, which was obviously a response to the speculation which speculators such as George Soros conducted during the Asia crisis of 1997, where the currencies of Asian countries were speculated in one week, down by 80% by such people as George Soros, for example. And obviously, also, [a response] to the 2008 near-meltdown of the financial system in the Lehman Brothers crisis.

What these countries of the BRICS and related organization are now doing, is, they have created the Contingency Reserve Arrangement, to protect participating countries against speculative attacks, even new financial crises are to come—and they are shortly to come. It was also the reaction to the fact that the U.S. Congress absolutely refused to change the rules of the IMF and the World Bank, after the 2008 crisis.

Now, these parallel financial organizations were characterized by Mrs. Denise Leung, from the finance center of the World Resources Institute, this morning in the German government radio, Deutsche Welle. This woman said: “Development is absolutely not possible without the AIIB and the New Development Bank, because in Asia alone, there is a need for infrastructure investment, up to the year 2020, of $8.2 trillion.” Now, the entire investment of the World Bank, in 2014, is only $24.2 billion, and of the Asian Development Bank, only $21 billion. So, obviously, the AIIB, the New Development Bank, and all the other banks I named, have to fill this gap. And obviously, to have such independent financial institutions, will give the developing countries, also a much greater voice in determining their own economic policy in the advantage of their own population.

Now obviously the aim, explicitly and stated so by several BRICS leaders, is to use these banks to eradicate poverty from the surface of the plan in a very short period of time. And in Asia alone, you have presently over 700 million people who are still living below the poverty level. Now, Prime Minister Modi has made several absolutely exciting speeches, where he declared a national objective of India, to eradicate poverty from the Indian nation. Also, President Xi Jinping has proudly announced, repeatedly, that the Chinese economic miracle, which, nobody can deny, is one of the greatest miracles in terms of economics ever in the history of economies—because China was able to have an economic development in 30 years which most industrial nations in Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere, needed 100 or even 200 years to accomplish. And Xi Jinping has announced that that kind of development which has now transformed the poor population of the coastal regions, and the southern parts of China, to bring that into the inner regions, and into the Western parts of China, which are mostly desert, and therefore it’s not so easy—but to use this Chinese economic miracle as the model for the New Silk Road for every country which participates in these projects, to repeat exactly what China has accomplished.

Now, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which is the major Swiss financial daily, had this morning an article with the headline, ” Gold Rush Mood Thanks to New Silk Road, Investors Are Rushing To Buy Stocks in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises. They Are Investing in the New Silk Road.” Now, I have to say there is a certain amount of confusion in the editorial board of Neue Zürcher Zeitung, because they are looking at these developments with the spectacles of monetarism, but obviously, this is not what this is at all, because the AIIB, the New Development Bank, and the other institutions arecredit institutions, and are not part of the casino economy of Wall Street, or City of London, or Frankfurt, for that matter. But they go very explicitly back to the principles of the First Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Alexander Hamilton, who created the first National Bank, and with that, a credit-financing institution for the real economy. And that first National Bank, and that credit system, was the basis for the gigantic industrial revolution which occurred in the United States, and it was the policy to which good American presidents always returned, such as Lincoln, with the greenback policy; or Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the New Deal, and the Glass-Steagall separation, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which happened to be not only the motor for the United States to overcome the depression in the ’30s, but it was also, in the form of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, the basis for the German economic miracle, in the post-war reconstruction of Germany.

As Dennis already mentioned, this was also the basis of the proposal by Lyndon LaRouche to create an International Development Bank, which he made in 1975, and for which this organization has campaigned practically in all the years since, and we have now the development that this idea, to have a development bank, which is only there to finance development, is coming into reality. The Casino’s About to Blow

Now this is extremely urgent, because the transAtlantic region is based on a completely different idea, namely the profit-maximization of the casino, and that is totally bankrupt, and it is about to go bust.

The recently published Beige Book of the Federal Reserve, which is estimated to reflect the complete denial of reality by European economists, in fact pretends that there is an upswing in the United States, but what it shows, the real figures show—and these figures are still manipulated—that you have a collapse of the real economy in the United States. The New York Fed’s Manufacturing Index just went down by 1.19 points, to only 6.9 points. The industrial index went down by 2.4 points, to 6.8 points. The employment index collapsed from 18.6 to 9.6%. So, even by the fraudulent statistics of the Fed, the real economy is shrinking.

But the real crisis is naturally that the too-big-to-fail banks have a derivative exposure which is today 40 to 80% larger than it was in 2008, at the point of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. And this system could detonate at any moment. For example, if the Fed would go to increase the interest rate just a tiny amount, that derivative bubble would, almost certainly, explode. And if the European Union continues their hard line against Greece, a policy which is supported also by German Finance Minister Schäuble, and drives Greece out of the Eurozone, which is now on its way—for example, Standard & Poor”s just downgraded Greece from the B level (creditworthiness), a B-, to level CCC+, which is already junk bond level.

Now, therefore, in reality, we are looking at the upcoming explosion of the financial system of the transAtlantic sector, and these new banks are actually the lifeboat for a sinking Titanic.

The problem of the trans-Atlantic sector could be solved very easily, if the United States would go back to the Glass-Steagall separation of the banks laws, which was introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, and repealed only in 1999, and that, by the way, makes the presidential campaign of the pre-presidential candidate Martin O’Malley the most important campaign, because he has said that the first action he would take, if he were to be elected into the White House, would be the implementation of Glass-Steagall: Protect the commercial and separate the investment banks, and do not finance them anymore through quantitative easing, or through so-called rescue packages, and they would go bankrupt, if they would be forced to rely on their own system.

Now, it is therefore— and because there is a connection between the pending collapse of the Wall Street banks, the City of London banks, and other related banks—there is a relation to the increasing war danger, which we have discussed many times, but the Empire collapse is what is driven by the pending collapse of the banks, and the war danger in Ukraine and the Middle East comes from that. Therefore, it is a life or death question of civilization, that we get the United States, and the European nations, to join with the BRICS, to join with the New Silk Road, and join the win-win perspective, as a conscious war-avoidance policy. Because if all the countries of Europe, the United States, and the BRICS countries—to which, for example, Russia belongs—are working together in these large projects, then, and only then, can you overcome the reason for war.

Because war has always occurred as a result of geopolitics, and we have to get the United States off the idea of the Project of a New American Century doctrine, which was introduced by the neo-cons at the end of the ’90s, which is the idea that they will not allow one nation, or a group of nations, to ever become stronger than the United States.

So, therefore, let’s look at the reality of the situation. Not only is the transAtlantic sector about to experience a bigger blowout of the system than in 2008; the most dramatic situation we have right now is in California, and in the entire Southwest of the United States, where you have a prolonged drought, and a huge water shortage.

On the 12th of March there was an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by J. Famigletti, who’s from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he said that California today has only water supplies for about one year left in its reservoirs. You can see here on this picture the drought emptying the reservoirs and also reducing the snowpack, which means there will be no water flowing into these reservoirs and other water systems. And what was the reaction of Governor Brown? About a week ago, he announced a mandatory cut of water usage of 25%, except for agriculture, and fracking. I mean, this completely insane method of production of shale gas and oil.

Now already over 500,000 acres remained unplanted in the last year, and it probably will be more than 1 million acres, which will not be used for agriculture this. Several towns in California are already out of water. And soon, you will see a migration of people out of the largest and most productive state in the United States.

So, when we recently, about a week ago, presented in the state legislature in Sacramento the revolutionary new concept of how to deal with this water crisis, which has been worked out by Ben Deniston and Lyndon LaRouche, with the science team he’s working with, we have a very unusual shocking experience. Because when we presented this revolutionary proposal of Ben Deniston to Mr. O’Connor, who is the principal consultant to the State Senate Committee for Natural Resources and Water, and we went there with the expectation that they would be happy to find people concerned with solving the water crisis, the reaction—which was a complete hysterical denial that there is a water shortage [were water shortages before—ed.], cyclic development of weather patterns over thousands of years, that the drought is not the result of anthropogenic dealings of mankind, he completely freaked out, and what Ben Deniston had proposed—he will elaborate this later on himself—that you can have a combination of measures, like desalinization of ocean water, with the help of nuclear energy, in the tradition of what Roosevelt did with the Tennessee Valley Authority, like managing and changing the Colorado River, and similar proposals… But also you could revive aspects of NAWAPA—that is bringing down the plentiful water from Alaska and Canada, along the Rocky Mountains, with a system of channels all the way to Mexico. Or, use the fact that 90% of all precipitation does not occur over land, but over oceans, and that you could use the ionization of moisture in the atmosphere, over the Pacific Ocean, to develop more water.

Now, recent studies focused very much on the high-energy galactic, cosmic rays in controlling the ionization of the lower atmosphere, and that seems to influence the cloud formation, and is also catalyzing the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere. That method has already been tested and applied by several countries in the world. But it was very clear that this Mr. O’Connor had absolutely no interest to even listen to these proposals, and then, by reviewing what the problem was, we found —which we had already known before, but it came now in the context of the reduction of the water use in California—crystal clear what is the intention.

The same too-big-to-fail banks, which are about to blow, including the different members of the Bush family and the American multi-billionaire T. Boone Pickens, all of these people had invested in the last 5 to 10 years, enormous amounts of money into everything that has to do with water. Land, which is over aquifers; lakes, but also water pumps, chemicals to purify water, membranes, bottled water—just everything which has to do with water—and not only in the United States, but all over the world. So it is very clear that what they have been trying to do is to corner the water market, in order to speculate on the scarcity of water, on rising prices, totally disregarding what would be the effect of depopulation, of destruction of agriculture, of increase of food prices—and actually killing people. And there’s no question that this is a Nazi policy, because you see the same support of Nazi policies, in Ukraine. You see it in the absolutely anti-human policy of the Troika in Greece, destroying one-third of the Greek economy, and you see it, naturally, in the absolutely horrendous condition of the developing countries.

Now, the consequence which these people take into account, is the death of millions and millions of poor people. Please go to the next slide.

Major deserts on the planet today.

On this slide you see the world deserts, which actually grow from the Atlantic Coast of Africa, all the way through the Sahel Zone, the Sahara, the pan-Arab peninsula, the Middle East—all the way to China, and naturally in the Southwest of America. But there are two completely different approaches to how you deal with that.

You have the speculation on the scarcity of water, on the side of Wall Street and the City of London, and other speculators. But then if you contrast that with what China has been doing, China has [next slide] in the recent years developed the two largest water projects in the world. There is, on the one side, the Three Gorges dam, which changed the water of the Yangtze, and has turned this into the largest power-production facility in the world, producing 22.5 gigawatts per year, and naturally it has protected thousands of people from drowning every year, and established efficient flood control. And then, secondly, you have the South North Water Transfer Diversion Program, of which two of the three parts have already been completed.

Now, the Eastern Route of this project, which brings water from the very water-rich spring region of the Yangtze River, to Anhui and Shandong and Jiansu provinces, basically filling up, on the one side, the Yellow River, and using irrigation from there. And then, secondly, the Middle Route, which brings water to Beijing and Tianjin. These two routes are already bringing large amounts of water to the dry areas, while the Western Route is still in the phase of planning.

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But the China is not the only country which is taking this productive approach. At the recent meeting of the SAARC summit, Indian Prime Minister Modi presented a similar program for India. [next slide] It is the idea of linking the Chadar river, which flows in the Himalayas, and brings it north-south along the India-Nepal border, and brings waters of the Yamura River, which goes from west to the east, into the Ganga Valley. And all of this goes back to the Indira Gandhi National Water Development Authority, which she established in 1982, and this was the time when we were working with her, together, on a 40-year development perspective for India. And this was naturally not carried out, because of her assassination, but it was a gigantic project, which had the idea of having 30 rivers linked through channels, creating 3,000 storage structures, projects which would create 34 gigawatts of hydropower, which would have provided 35 million hectares for the agricultural use of land. It would transferred 175 billion cubic meters of water per year, and naturally, massively increase the food production, protect the population against floods and droughts.

Now Prime Minister Modi has revived all of this, and he has created a taskforce on interlinking of these rivers. He announced plans to convert 101 rivers into transport channels, which will cut the transport costs by 30%, and naturally increase the capacity gigantically. With that together goes that several desalination plants in the coast of Tamil Nadu, and it also involves a plan to connect 14 rivers from the Himalayas to 16 other ones across the Indian peninsula, adding 35 million hectares of irrigated land, and 34,000 megawatts of electricity. That is three times as much as you need to provide electricity for New York City.

Obviously, there are many, many areas in the world which need that approach, taken by China and India, and which is lacking right now in California.

For example, the same approach must be taken for the Aral Sea, which has shrunk to only 5%. This is creating immense tensions between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, who have access to several rivers first, before they flow onto Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and naturally tensions exist between these countries.

The Transaqua Plan.

It must be taken to Lake Chad, which has shrunk to less than 10% of its previous levels, and for which we have proposed for a very long time, the Transaqua plan, which has been worked out by the Italian physicist Dr. Vicchi, which has the idea to take the abundant water, actually too much water, from the Congo River, and bring it up through a system of channels and canals into Lake Chad, which obviously would transform the life of millions of people, and obviously this is not an option, but a bitter necessity. Because right now, we hear every week, the horrendous reports about thousands of people trying to flee over the Mediterranean, from Africa, and naturally also from Syria and Iraq, and many hundreds of them are drowning every week. And the EU has nothing better than to chase these people back, and to try to prevent them from coming, which underlines once more, the complete moral bankruptcy of the EU.

Now, next slide, the World Land-Bridge. Therefore, this proposal, which we have produced over a year study, and we published at the end of last year. This is a 370 page study, which not only outlines all the future projects, the tunnels, bridges, corridors, which are needed to turn the present world situation into a coherent connected world Land-Bridge, it also has all the scientific, or a lot of the scientific, conceptions provided by the scientific method of Mr. LaRouche, of physical economy, of the need why an increase in the energy-flux-density in the production process, is the absolutely necessary way to go, and why only with these principles, can you provide food and livelihood for the increased population in the world, and the increase in the relative population density is the law of the universe. And all of that you will find in this report.

Now, if you look at the various projects, which I only want to identify here very, very briefly, it is a network of bridges, tunnels, and channels connecting the five continents of the world, actually turning it into a coherent world transport and infrastructure system, so that in a few years, you could travel, for example, from the southern tip of Latin America, or South America, by maglev train, all the way up through the Americas, through the Bering Strait, all the way to Cape of Good Hope in Africa, or to Indonesia, if you want to take a different route, and that would be faster than to go by ship presently.

Projects of this include, for example: The second Panama Canal, which started to be built in Nicaragua—this is here, number one on the map. This already started last December, with the help of China. It’s a 278 kilometer canal. Then, number two is the building of the Bering Strait tunnel. Can you please now show the map from London to New York? This has been recently proposed by the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, which is to built a fast railway system from London all the way to the Bering Strait, and then, from there, to New York. And that has been adopted as the official policy of Russia.

Now obviously what is lacking right now is the American commitment, but I think that that is what we are campaigning for, to be adopted.

Number 3 on this map is the tunnel connecting the Sakhalin Island with Russia, which is supposed to be a tunnel of 7.3 kilometers. Number 4, the Sakhalin-Hokkaido tunnel, or bridge, which will be 45 kilometers. Number 7 is the tunnel connecting the Bohai Bay, shortening the distance to 100 kilometers connecting two Chinese cities, Dalian and Yantai. Number 10 is the building of the Kra Canal, which is supposed to be an alternative to the Malacca Strait, which is completely overworked. Number 12 is the expansion of the Suez Canal, which is happening at a very fast speed, with the help of the new el-Sisi government in Egypt, which has completely transformed that country, and cause total excitement of the population.

Now, this is a part of the World Land-Bridge, which we have produced in 2012, when it became clear that the policy of the Troika transformed all of southern Europe—Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal—into economic desert zones, reducing the real economy of Greece, for example, by one-third, causing two-thirds unemployment of the youth, increasing the death rate, increasing the suicide rate. The same picture for Italy and Spain and Portugal. And it was the idea to extend the New Silk Road/Eurasian Land-Bridge into Spain, into the Balkans, and then from there, build bridges and tunnels into Africa. And connect it with the extension of the New Silk Road into Africa.

Now, this is obviously all in the documents of the World Land-Bridge, and I can only advise you, you should acquire this report, because this is the blueprint for the next decades of human civilization.

The Principles To Be Followed

Now, Xi Jinping announced at the Boao conference the principles of this new policy, which basically is the five principles of the Bandung Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1955. It is in complete cohesion with the UN Charter. It is based on the respect of international law. It is the idea of non-interference, respect for the sovereignty of the other country, the respect for the difference in the social system of the other country, and to base the policy on the maximum development of the other — which happens to be also the principles of the Peace of Westphalia, and international law.

Xi Jinping made a speech on that occasion, where he said, “We have only one planet, and countries share that one world. To do well in Asia, and the world, we cannot do without each other. What China therefore needs most is a harmonious and stable domestic environment, and a peaceful and tranquil international environment. Turbulence and war run against the fundamental interest of the Chinese people. China has suffered from turbulence and war for more than a century, since modern times. and the Chinese people would never want to inflict the same tragedy on other countries, or peoples. History has taught us that no country that tried to achieve its goal with force ever succeeded.”

The proof of that, obviously, is the condition of Iraq, of Syria, of Libya, of Ukraine, and many other countries, in Africa for example.

What we have to accomplish, therefore, is to make an all-out effort to convince the United States, and the European nations, that they should join with the BRICS, and with the New Silk road policy.

Now, I believe that we have come to a point in human history, where either we bring the political and economic order in cohesion with the real laws of the universe, of the physical universe, or we are threatened to extinct ourselves in a nuclear annihilation. However, I think that in all great traditions, you have this idea about that the laws of the universe must be a guidance for our political order on the planet. You find that idea beautifully developed in the Confucian tradition, of 2500 years of Chinese history, the idea that politics must follow the Mandate of Heaven, that there must be a harmony of all nations based on the idea of Love, which is the Confucian notion of ren, and that each nation must fulfill its right place, and its right task in this alliance, which in the notion of li.

That same idea you find in Hinduism, that the cosmic order must be implemented on the planet, in the political order. You find it also in the Christian humanist tradition of European culture, of which, after all, America is a part. It’s based on the idea that concordance in the macrocosm can only exist if all microcosms develop in an appropriate fashion and way, promoting the interest of the other as if it would be their own.

So, I think we have an unbelievable optimistic situation. It is full of dangers. We are threatened with World War III, very immediately, but the solution is there. I mean, if we get the United States to really become a republic again, as it was intended by the Founding Fathers, as it was established by Alexander Hamilton and the idea of a National Bank and a credit system; as it was promoted by John Quincy Adams, who had the idea that America must be a republic in an alliance of sovereign republics; as it was reconstituted by Abraham Lincoln; and naturally, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and as it was echoed by John F. Kennedy. I think we have to revive that American tradition, and then I think Europe will follow, because, as you could see with the rush into the AIIB, and the excitement about Modi, about China in general, in Europe, I think we could really turn the tide. And I want to ask all of you, to join in this effort.

17. apr. 2015 – Ved et EIR-arrangement i New York City i går, udstedte Helga Zepp-LaRouche, stifter og forkvinde for Schiller Instituttet, en opfordring til, at USA og Europa allierer sig med BRIKS for udvikling på verdensplan. Hendes budskab blev rapporteret i dag af Xinhua nyhedstjeneste og er blevet udsendt over hele verden. I dagens udgave af China Daily har Xinhuas artikel titlen: »Amerika og Europa får besked på at arbejde sammen med BRIKS«.

Xinhua-artiklen er bevet bragt i Indien af Hindustan Times Syndicate og Asia Pacific Daily News India; i Afrika af Namibias Presseagentur (NAMPA) og mange andre steder. Den cirkulerer på fransk. Den blev bragt på russisk i on-line-publikationen Ftimes, der har base i Kazan. Artiklen havde et fotografi fra et møde den 16. april i Washington, D.C. mellem officielle repræsentanter fra BRIKS, med titlen, »Finansministre fra BRIKS og Centralbankchefer mødes«.

Gårsdagens EIR-seminar på Manhattan med titlen »BRIKS-processen skrider frem: Dannelsen af en ny, international orden for menneskeheden«, sammenbragte repræsentanter fra erhverv og fagforeninger, universiteter i området og de skønne kunster, og fra 13 konsulater og missioner fra mange kontinenter. Foruden hovedtalen af Helga Zepp-LaRouche talte også Benjamin Deniston om videnskaben om at løse ferskvandskrisen i verden.

Teksten til Xinhuas artikel fra 17. april lyder i sin helhed:

Amerika og Europa fik besked på at arbejde sammen med BRIKS

Et fuldstændigt nyt økonomisk system, initieret af BRIKS, er ved at vokse frem med ekstrem høj fart, sagde en international tænketank torsdag og tilskyndede indtrængende USA og Europa til at skrotte geopolitik og arbejde sammen med dem.

»BRIKS-nationerne, nemlig Brasilien, Rusland, Indien, Kina og Sydafrika, er gået sammen for at forfølge en politik med økonomisk udvikling, ikke alene for deres individuelle lande, men til gavn for folk i alle nationer«, sagde Schiller Instituttet, en tænketank, der har hovedkvarter i både Tyskland og USA, i en rapport, der blev udgivet her på et seminar.

I modsætning til Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), som Obamaregeringen er fortaler for, og som ekskluderer Rusland og Kina, så er de BRIKS-relaterede initiativer, inklusive det kinesiske forslag om et Frihandelsområde for Asien og Stillehavsområdet, inkluderende, sagde tænketanken.

På seminaret talte Helga Zepp-LaRouche, tænketankens stifter, i meget rosende vendinger om BRIKS og sagde, at den markedsblok, der var ved at vokse frem, »har initieret et helt nyt, økonomisk system«, der i sin natur er et win-win-system.

Ved vidt og bredt at udbrede en rute for opbygning af den nye, økonomiske verdensorden arbejder BRIKS-nationerne hen imod reel, økonomisk udvikling, komplet med nye kreditinstitutioner og store, højteknologiske projekter for at hæve alle de deltagende landes velfærd, sagde stifteren.

Hun brugte også sin magt og indflydelse til støtte for andre initiativer, som Kina har foreslået, inklusive Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB) og oprettelsen af en Silkevejs-Udviklingsfond. Disse initiativer tilsigter at søge resultater, der er til gensidig gavn, og er ikke af geopolitisk natur, sagde hun.

I stedet vil de skabe et opsving i realøkonomien gennem at finansiere opbygning af infrastruktur, som er af særlig stor betydning i betragtning af, at den nuværende kasinoøkonomi skaber en masse bobler og øger svælget mellem de rige og fattige i hele verden, anså hun.

»Den amerikanske regering foretog et enormt fejlskøn og lagde pres på allierede og udviklingslande for under ingen omstændigheder at blive en del af AIIB«, sagde hun.

Tænketanken opfordrede USA og Europa til at forlade fortidens destruktive politik, der førte til de to Verdenskrige, og gå med i det win-win-perspektiv, som BRIKS præsenterer. »Det er et spørgsmål om liv og død«, sagde Zepp-LaRouche.

Executive Intelligence Reviews 370 sider lange rapport med titlen »Den Nye Silkevej bliver til Verdenslandbroen« blev i mellemtiden også præsenteret på seminaret, sponsoreret af EIR.

Med formand Tom Gillesberg

… Lad os i stedet tage imod den udstrakte hånd, der ligger i Xi Jinpings og BRIKS-landenes tilbud om at samarbejde om opbygningen af den Nye Silkevej og det nye finanssystem, som for tiden hastigt er under udvikling – med AIIB … og en hel række af andre finansinstitutioner, der alle principielt har den samme funktion, som Kreditanstalten for Genopbygning havde for virkeliggørelsen af det tyske, økonomiske mirakel efter Anden Verdenskrig –, så kan vi løse alle de problemer, der i øjeblikket synes uløselige.

11. april 2015 – Den beslutsomhed, hvormed 50 stater, på trods af USA’s massive opposition, har bekendtgjort, at de ønsker at blive grundlæggende medlemmer af Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB), som er initieret af Kina, demonstrerer, at det strategiske tidevand har nået det punkt, hvor det fundamentalt vender. Utallige internationale kommentarer refererer til, hvilken alvorlig fejltagelse det var af den amerikanske regering at gøre spørgsmålet om en regional bank til finansiering af infrastruktur til en strategisk magtkamp mellem Kina og USA – og så dernæst tabe kampen.

Stadigt flere kræfter i verden indser, at det kinesiske perspektiv med en såkaldt »Win-Win«-politik, altså et økonomisk samarbejde, der gavner alle deltagere, er langt mere attraktivt end den angloamerikanske politik med geopolitik, der har efterladt et grusomt spor af ødelæggelse i Sydvestasien, Nordafrika og Ukraine, og pga. hvilken tropper ved grænsen til Rusland nu står over for noget, der kan føre til en krig mellem atommagter. Dertil kommer, at selve USA har et fortvivlende presserende behov for en anden politik. Store dele af Californien, Texas og andre stater vest for Mississippi er udsat for en tørke, der har stået på i årevis, og som har ødelagt nogle af de vigtigste landbrugsområder i USA. Den radikale, grønne, californiske guvernør Brown har netop beordret en 25 % ’s nedskæring af vandforbruget for alle områder – undtagen landbrug og fracking (!) – uden at tage noget som helst perspektiv til overvindelse af manglen på vand i betragtning. Californien skulle angiveligt kun være egnet til et befolkningstal på 400.000, mener Brown – en bemærkning, der, i betragtning af, at der lever omkring 40 millioner mennesker i Californien, er en monstrøsitet og åbenbart tager en massiv affolkning med i købet.

Øjensynligt i forventning om en vandmangel, der længe har aftegnet sig, har Wall Streets store »TBTF«-banker og de internationale finanscentre – netop dem, der angiveligt skulle være for store til, at man kan lade dem gå bankerot – såvel som også medlemmer af Bush-klanen og multimilliardæren T. Boone Pickens, i de seneste ti år opkøbt alt, der har med vand at gøre: Jord, hvorunder der findes grundvandsførende lag, søer, alle områder inden for vandbygningsteknik, rustfri rør, pumper, kemikalier til vandforbedring osv. – simpelt hen alt, man skal bruge for at generere profit i en privatiseret vandøkonomi. Allerede i 2011 lovede Citigroups cheføkonom, Willem Buiter: »Vandmarkedet bliver snart varmere end oliemarkedet. Vand som fabriksanlæg vil, efter min mening, snart blive den vigtigste kategori af fabriksanlæg på basis af fysiske varer, og vil langt overgå olie, kobber, landbrugsprodukter og ædelmetaller.«

En ny Enron-svindel aftegner sig tydeligt, hvor prisen på el nærmest blev firdoblet over en nat, og hvor en hel række af Enrons bagmænd måtte gå i fængsel pga. insiderhandel. Med alle midler presser vandspekulanterne på for, med en tørke, der forværres, snart at få lov til at handle med vand på Markedet for Varefutures.

I betragtning af denne dramatiske situation vinder præsidentkandidataspiranten O’Malleys kampagne, med sin bebudelse af, at han som sit vigtigste fokuspunkt har at bryde Wall Streets magt gennem at genindføre Glass/Steagall-loven for en bankopdeling, strategisk betydning. Bestyrelsesformændene for nogle TBTF-banker lod for omkring to uger siden førende medlemmer af det Demokratiske Parti true med, at de ville blive afskåret fra enhver finansiel støtte fra Wall Street – læs: at man ville købe det næste præsidentskab for det Republikanske Parti – ifald demokrater som senator Elizabeth Warren (O’Malley blev forsigtigvis ikke nævnt) ikke holdt op med sine angreb på Wall Street.

Det er endnu uvist, om det Demokratiske Parti vil blive splittet over dette spørgsmål: På den ene side opportunisterne fra det horisontale erhverv, der argumenterer med, at man i Amerika ikke kan vinde et valg uden Wall Streets penge, og på den anden side patriotiske demokrater som O’Malley, der har indset, at USA kun kan overleve, hvis Wall Streets kriminelle magt bliver brudt gennem Glass/Steagall-loven. Til denne gruppe hører også Robert Reich, tidligere arbejdsminister i Clinton-regeringen, og kongresmedlemmet Donna Edwards, der kæmper for den afgående Baltimore-senator Mikulskys plads i Senatet, og som har erklæret, at hun ikke vil modtage nogen penge fra Wall Street. Hillary Clinton, der vil annoncere sit kandidatur på søndag, har derimod taget folk ind i sin kampagnestab, der er kendt for at tage store bidrag – altså penge fra Wall Street – hjem, som f.eks. John Podesta.

Konfronteret med den fundamentale krise, som USA befinder sig i, drejede det sig ikke blot om embedet som præsident, selv om O’Malley utvivlsomt er den hidtil eneste kvalificerede præsidentkandidat, erklærede Lyndon LaRouche med eftertryk og lancerede en omfattende kampagne for at placere præsidentskabet som helhed på en kvalitativt højere platform og for dette formål at vinde et team af videnskabelige eksperter, der under et O’Malley-præsidentskab kan hjælpe med atter at gøre USA til en fungerende republik.

LaRouche understregede, at overvindelsen af ferskvandskrisen i det sydvestlige USA vil blive nøglespørgsmålet for dette nye præsidentskabs succes. LaRouche, der allerede for 40 år siden advarede om den ferskvandskrise, der allerede dengang aftegnede sig, og som påviste veje til løsning af krisen, har nu fastlagt en helt ny fremgangsmåde med et team af sine unge videnskabsfolk. Ben Deniston, der er en del af dette videnskabsteam, præsenterede et koncept, der er fuldstændig revolutionært i det aktuelle politiske klima i USA: I stedet for at affinde sig med, at den grønne ideologi og spekulanternes rovgriskhed affolker den nuværende mest folkerige stat i USA, må kimen til en videnskabelig løsning som forudsætning have, at der er tilstrækkeligt med vand på vores planet, men at dette vand ikke er til rådighed i en tilgængelig form; det vil sige, at det enten forekommer som saltholdigt havvand, er indeholdt i atmosfæren som fugt og regner ned over havene, eller flyder uproduktivt ud i havene (som smeltevand/afvanding fra floderne.)

Nye videnskabelige undersøgelser giver belæg for sammenhængen mellem vort Solsystems galaktiske cyklus over mange år og forandringer i vort vejrmønster, der i størrelsesorden overgår virkningerne af menneskeskabt aktivitet i en grad, der gør disse fuldstændigt negligerbare. Det afgørende spørgsmål er derimod, hvordan menneskeslægten bevidst kan udnytte de processer, der optræder i vor galakse og vort solsystem, såsom den kosmiske stråling og ionisering af fugten i atmosfæren, for at forandre vandcyklusserne på Jorden i en sådan grad, at de kan modvirke den tiltagende ørkendannelse.

Frem for alt har Kina, med to store vandstyringsprojekter, demonstreret menneskets evne til at overvinde oversvømmelser såvel som tørke. Projektet med de Tre Slugters Dæmning har allerede reddet tusinder fra at drukne og producerer årligt 98,8 mia. kWh (2014) elektricitet, og omdirigeringen af vandet fra Yangtzeflodens kildeområde til Kinas tørre områder i nord og området omkring Beijing er en model for overvindelse af vandmangel i andre egne af verden.

Hvis Tyskland og de andre europæiske nationer forbliver i EU’s spændetrøje og i slaveagtig, forudbestemt lydighed støtter Londons og Wall Streets geopolitisk motiverede politik imod Rusland og Kina, da kan man frygte, at opstillingen af våbensystemer og tropper på grænsen til Rusland, og Saudi Arabiens krig i Yemen, samt krige andre steder, der også promoveres af London og Washington, meget snart vil føre til udløsningen af en global, atomar udslettelse af menneskeheden.

Lad os i stedet tage imod den udstrakte hånd, der ligger i Xi Jinpings og BRIKS-landenes tilbud om at samarbejde om opbygningen af den Nye Silkevej og det nye finanssystem, som for tiden hastigt er under udvikling – med AIIB, den Nye Udviklingsbank (NDB) og en hel række af andre finansinstitutioner, der alle principielt har den samme funktion, som Kreditanstalten for Genopbygning havde for virkeliggørelsen af det tyske, økonomiske mirakel efter Anden Verdenskrig –, så kan vi løse alle de problemer, der i øjeblikket synes uløselige.

Det altafgørende spørgsmål er: Kan vi i tide frigøre os fra geopolitikkens oligarkisk-snæversynede tankegang, som den netop på klinisk måde er blevet repræsenteret af vasallerne Norbert Röttgen i Maybritt Illners Talkshow fra den nye »Sorte Kanal Vest«[1]? Og kan vi i tide placere os på det højere standpunkt, der repræsenterer én menneskehed, og som tilbydes af Kina og BRIKS-politikken? Det er netop dette, som tilbydes af den græske regering, når denne tilbyder at blive en bro mellem BRIKS og Europa.

Ironisk nok afhænger såvel USA’s som Tysklands overlevelse af, at vi griber denne chance – også selv om hr. Schäuble, af kulturelle årsager, ikke kan forstå det.

[1] ’Den sorte Kanal’ var en serie af politiske programmer, der blev sendt hver uge mellem 1960 og 1989 af Østtysk Tv. Hver af udsendelserne blev lavet over optagede uddrag fra nylige vesttyske Tv-programmer, der blev genredigeret til at indeholde en kommunistisk kommentar.

I sidste uge besluttede alle regeringerne i Norden at gå med i den potentielt største jobsatsning nogensinde – Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB) og den Nye Silkevej. Den betydning, som denne beslutning har for, at landene nu kan nå deres mål for beskæftigelse og økonomisk udvikling, kan ikke overvurderes. Hvis regeringerne følger op på deres ansøgninger og bruger de muligheder, der åbnes op for gennem AIIB, så kan Nordens eksport af maskiner, andre varer og tjenesteydelser blive den motor, som sætter gang i økonomien, både i samarbejdslandene og på hjemmefronten – en Win-Win-kombination.

Følgende er en rapport fra Schiller Instituttets svenske søsterorganisation, LaRouche-bevægelsen i Sverige (EAP).

Vi har tilføjet vigtige links til vore danske artikler/brochurer, så man kan informere sig om Verdenslandbroen, BRIKS og AIIB.

Vi anbefaler desuden, at du kommer til Politisk Orientering på lørdag, 11. april, se opslag her på siden. 

I sidste uge besluttede alle regeringerne i Norden at gå med i den potentielt største jobsatsning nogensinde – Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB) og den Nye Silkevej. Den betydning, som denne beslutning har for, at landene nu kan nå deres mål for beskæftigelse og økonomisk udvikling, kan ikke overvurderes. Hvis regeringerne følger op på deres ansøgninger og bruger de muligheder, der åbnes op for gennem AIIB, så kan Nordens eksport af maskiner, andre varer og tjenesteydelser blive den motor, som sætter gang i økonomien, både i samarbejdslandene og på hjemmefronten – en Win-Win-kombination. Det er derfor af største vigtighed, at kendskabet til AIIB og Kinas hensigter med AIIB bliver udbredt så hurtigt som muligt. Informer dig derfor, og se nedenstående links.

Sverige, Finland, Norge og Island besluttede sig, kort tid efter Danmark, til at ansøge om medlemskab i Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB) som grundlæggende medlemmer. Der var tale om, at isen blev brudt i sidste øjeblik, eftersom hele den vestlige verden i over et år havde stillet sig afvisende over for AIIB, som Kina og 20 andre asiatiske lande initierede. Det store omsving skete først den 17. marts i år, blot to uger inden sidste ansøgningsdag for lande, der ønskede at blive grundlæggende medlemmer i AIIB, da Storbritannien brød isen i Vesten og ansøgte, tæt fulgt af Frankrig, Tyskland, Italien, Schweiz og Luxembourg. Dernæst gik så Østrig, Sydkorea og Australien med, på trods af USA’s fortsatte pres mod dem om at holde sig væk. I Norden brød Danmark isen den 27. marts, Sverige og Finland fulgte efter den 30. marts og den 31. marts, den sidste dag for ansøgning om at blive grundlæggende medlem, besluttede Norge og Island at indsende deres ansøgning. De enorme projekter, som vil blive startet op med AIIB, og de enorme summer, blev helt enkelt for store til, at disse vestlige lande kunne holde sig væk. Nu står USA med sin vasal Japan alene i sit forsøg på fortsat at dominere det globale finanssystem på sine vilkår.

AIIB blev foreslået af Kinas præsident Xi Jinping i oktober 2013 for at finansiere opbygningen af den Nye Silkevej gennem Asien til Europa, som indgår i Kinas store strategi »Et Bælte, en Vej«. Samtidigt lanceredes også »det 21. århundredes Maritime Silkevej« over havet syd om Asien. AIIB drejer sig derfor om al slags infrastruktur for udviklingen af disse transportkorridorer og de omkringliggende områder. AIIB vil i begyndelsen få 100 milliarder dollar i grundkapital, hvoraf Kina tegner sig for 50 milliarder dollar. En beregning viser, at med en sådan grundkapital kan man udlåne 1.300 milliarder. Det rækker et pænt stykke hen ad vejen til det beregnede direkte investeringsbehov for infrastruktur og opbygning af civilisation omkring den Nye Silkevej på 10.000 milliarder dollar. AIIB vil kun komme til at finansiere halvdelen af hvert projekt, man engagerer sig i, så derfor kan man regne med, at projekterne bliver endnu større. Den anden halvdel vil blive finansieret af andre finansinstitutioner, som BRIKS’ Nye Udviklingsbank, Shanghaiorganisationens infrastrukturfond og Asean-fonden, men også gamle, betydeligt mindre institutioner som Verdensbanken, Asiatisk Udviklingsbank, IMF og andre fonde på det almindelige kapitalmarked.

AIIB vil således ikke satse på nogle virtuelle investeringer, men vil derimod flytte tonsvis af bjergmateriale, jord, stål og cement, for at der skal blive veje, jernbaner, vand, energi, byer og telekommunikation i et bælte, der skal knytte Asiens forskellige dele sammen med hinanden, og med Europa, Afrika og Amerika. Det drejer sig om at sætte hundreder af millioner mennesker i produktiv beskæftigelse og bygge fattigdommen væk så hurtigt, der kan lade sig gøre. Isen er brudt for de lande i den Tredje Verden, der længe har kæmpet imod den nuværende, uretfærdige verdensorden.

Kina ser det som virkeliggørelsen af det, som landet har kæmpet for siden verdenskrigens sejr over fascismen og FN’s grundlæggelse for 70 år siden, og den Alliancefri Bevægelses Bandung-konference for 60 år siden, som præsident Xi Jinping sagde på det store Boao-forum for Asien den 28. marts i år. Titlen på hans tale var ’Towards a Community of Common Destiny and a New Future for Asia’ (Mod et samfund for vor fælles bestemmelse og en ny fremtid for Asien), og her beskrev han igen Kinas udgangspunkt for sin politik i dag. Præsident Xi sagde:

»Den kinesiske nation elsker fred og har, fra gammel tid, højagtet sådanne filosofier som »harmoni er det mest værdifulde«, »fred og harmoni bør herske« og »alle mennesker under himmelen er brødre«. Kina har lidt under uroligheder og krig i mere end et århundrede i moderne tid, og det kinesiske folk ville aldrig ønske at påføre andre lande eller folkeslag den samme tragedie …

I 2013 fremlagde jeg, under mit besøg i Kasakhstan og Indonesien, initiativet for opbygningen af et økonomisk Silkevejsbælte og det 21. århundredes Maritime Silkevej. Initiativet med »Bæltet og Vejen«, der imødekommer Kinas udviklingsmæssige behov og de udviklingsmæssige behov hos landene langs ruterne og i regionen som helhed, vil tjene de relevante parters fælles interesser og besvare vor tids krav om regionalt og globalt samarbejde.

Det vil blive et veritabelt kor, der omfatter alle lande langs ruterne, ikke en enegang kun for Kina.

Både »Bæltet og Vejen« og AIIB er åbne initiativer. Vi indbyder alle lande langs ruten og i Asien, såvel som også alle vore venner og partnere i hele verden, til at tage aktivt del i disse bestræbelser.«

Præsident Xi Jinpings tale om harmoni og samarbejde viser, hvordan Kinas gamle visdomslærer, Konfucius’ idéer gennemsyrer den nuværende, kinesiske politik og AIIB. Xi citerede Mencius, den store filosof i det gamle Kina, der sagde, »Ting fødtes til at være forskellige«. Xi fortsatte:

»Civilisationer er blot unikke, og ingen er den anden overlegen. Der må være mere udveksling og dialog mellem civilisationer og udviklingsmodeller, så hver af dem kan trække på den andens styrke, og alle kan trives og få fremgang gennem gensidig læring og fælles udvikling.«

Ved hjælp af denne visdomslære, der ligger dybt indlejret i den kinesiske kultur, mobiliserer Kina nu den næste fase af økonomisk udvikling, der skal være drevet af innovation. Det indebærer, at Kina samler, og satser stort på at lægge sig i frontlinjen for, verdens videnskaber med de mest avancerede, økonomisk-tekniske projekter, som verden nogen sinde har set. Det hidtil mest storslåede er det kinesiske rumprogram, der indebærer anlæggelsen af baser og udvindingsanlæg på Månen for at udvinde helium-3, der skal bruges på Jorden til den langt mere effektive fusionskraft. Med dette program er, som Lyndon LaRouche siger, menneskeheden definitivt på vej til at begynde at leve op til Johannes Keplers udfordring med at placere sig i relation til hele Solsystemet.

Kinas økonomiske politik er, ligesom alle BRIKS-landenes, orienteret mod det, der behøves i fremtiden. Dette er den nye måde at tænke på inden for den nye, økonomiske politik, de er i færd med at skabe, i LaRouches ånd. Med sin satsning på universel videnskab er BRIKS-landene, med Kina i spidsen, i færd med at skabe en form for samarbejde mellem civilisationer, hvor tænkningen, kundskabsudbyttet og det sande menneskelige sættes i fokus.

I 25 år har LaRouche-bevægelsen i Sverige (EAP) og internationalt kæmpet for, at Sverige, Norden og hele verden satser på strategien for udvikling af den Nye Silkevej. I 40 år har Lyndon og Helga LaRouche samarbejdet med den Tredje Verden for denne politik, som nu omfattes af BRIKS-landene, og dermed en tredjedel af verdens befolkning. Gennem Sveriges ansøgning om medlemskab i AIIB har man de facto meldt sin interesse for den Nye Silkevejs storslåede, økonomiske udviklingspolitik. Det er uvist, om den svenske regering kender til dette, selv om det tydeligt fremgår af den AIIB-rapport, som er skrevet af myndigheden Tillväxtanalys under Näringsdepartementet.

Det er et stort skridt, at en række vestlige lande har set sig nødsaget til at orientere sig mod den Nye Silkevejsstrategi og mod de lande, som er kernen i BRIKS, et skridt, der er så stort, at de fleste i de vestlige lande, som er gået med, endnu ikke ved, hvad det er, de er gået med i. Det går direkte imod de vesterlandske ny-kolonialistiske magtstrukturer, som hidtil ensidigt har dikteret det globale finanssystems betingelser. Hvis politikken gennemføres, kan det blive det definitive skridt bort fra den vestlige verdens krigspolitik, monetarisme, arbejdsløshed og nedskæringer.

Sverige og mange vestlige lande har dog signaleret, at de tænker tage deres syge virusser med ind i AIIB, for at den gamle, vestligt dominerede, økonomiske politik skal styre selv denne nye institution. Der vil blive en fortsat, stor strid om dette, og det er derfor nødvendigt at vide, hvorfor Kina tog initiativ til AIIB.

Se også:

Specialrapport: Helga Zepp-LaRouche: »Den Nye Silkevej bliver til Verdenslandbroen«, med en udførlig gennemgang af de vigtigste storprojekter.

Trailer: »Den Nye Silkevej bliver til Verdenslandbroen«

Nyhedsorientering februar 2015: »Byg Verdenslandbroen for Verdensfred«

Brochure: »HVORFOR USA OG EUROPA MÅ GÅ MED I BRIKS: En ny, international orden for menneskeheden«

EIR: »BRIKS er det eneste alternativ til truslen om Tredje Verdenskrig«

EIR: »Mens europæerne tilslutter sig AIIB: Kina spørger Washington: Hvad venter I på?«

Xi Jinpings hovedtale på Boao Forum: »Mod et samfund for vor fælles bestemmelse og en ny fremtid for Asien«

LaRouchePAC, World Land Bridge, med interaktivt kort

Hovedtale af Helga Zepp-LaRouche.

Lyder det ikke som sund fornuft? Giver det ikke mening, at alle disse lande slutter sig sammen, overvinder fattigdom, overvinder sygdom, har en fælles fremtid … at forsvare vores menneskehed imod alle farer og definere den næste fase og epoke i menneskets evolution …?

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31. mrs. 2015 – Den tyske, internationale broadcastingsorganisation Deutsche Welle har endelig indset, at Grækenland arbejder på et økonomisk alternativ med Silkevejen. I en kommentar til vicepremierminister Yannis Dragasakis’ og udenrigsminister Nikos Kotzias’ nylige besøg i Kina, skriver DW’s kinakorrespondent Frank Sieren, der ikke kan lade være med at være kynisk, at mens »sloganet for besøget var ’året for maritimt samarbejde’ mellem Grækenland og Kina … kort sagt: Det handlede om penge«.

Efter at skrive en gang nonsens om hårde forhandlinger mellem Kina og Grækenland, fortsætter Sieren, »Grækenlands adgang til Middelhavet er en vigtig del af det Nye Silkevejsprojekt, initieret af Xi Jinping … da det frembyder et vigtigt omdrejningspunkt, der garanterer en kinesisk-europæisk forbindelse mellem land og vand.«

»Det drejer sig om mere end blot havnen: Det er et alternativ til Europas finansielle støtte – på bedre vilkår. For grækernes vedkommende er Kina nu mere med i spillet end nogen sinde før, og de spiller en større rolle i Europas fremtid end nogen sinde før. Heldigvis er Beijing interesseret i et stærkt Europa som en stærk modpart til USA.«

Foto: En græsk regeringsdelegation, ledet af vicepremierminister Yannis Dragasakis og udenrigsminister Nikos Kotzias, mødtes fredag med repræsentanter fra den kinesiske regering, ledet af en af Kinas vicepremierministre, Ma Kai.

China Presents Action Plan for `One Belt, One Road’

March 30 (EIRNS) — This year’s Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) became
a central focus for China’s mobilization around the “One Belt,
One Road” project for Asia and the world. In his speech on March
28th, President Xi Jinping had traced the development of the
Asia-Pacific region during the last 70 years from the end of the
Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations, to the
historic Bandung conference 60 years ago, where Chinese leader
Zhou Enlai and India’s Jawaharlal Nehru had laid out the Five
Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, including non-interference in
the internal affairs of other nations. “This year we will witness
the completion of the ASEAN Community,” Xi Said. With the
development of the two new Silk Road projects, China hopes to
create by 2020 an East Asian Economic Partnership.
Boao drew 48 nations this year with a much greater
participation of world leaders, attracted by the vision of the
New Silk Road. Most significantly, China used the opportunity to
present a broad and detailed program of how they envision the
development of their “One Belt, One Road.”
As they did so, the number of countries applying to be
founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB) rose to 45, with Sweden and Egypt being among those
announcing themselves today. Among major economies remaining
outside, are {only} the United States, Canada, and Japan. One
investment group in China estimated that the AIIB’s $100 billion
capital, “properly borrowed against” with bond issuances, could
provide $1.3 trillion in financing.
“This is the development we have been pushing for,” Lyndon
LaRouche noted today, “which Helga and I have been pursuing for a
long time.” He characterized it as “far, far greater than a
Marshall Plan.”
The “Action Plan” is a grandiose vision of trade and
development which makes the stalemated PNAC imperial vision of
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pale in comparison. And the
principles of the “One Belt, One Road” laid out in Xi’s speech —
where the underlying principle is the mutual respect shown to
each country’s core interests and choice of development paths —
contrast starkly with the imperial unipolar world that lies at
the basis of the TPP notion.
Entitled “Visions and Actions on Jointly Building Belt and
Road,” the document, issued on March 28, detailed the various
aspects of the envisioned process, involving economy, finance,
culture and security. The “framework” of the project includes
linking Asia, Europe and Africa by means of the Silk Road
Economic Belt through China, Central Asia, Russia and Europe, a
link through Central Asia and West Asia to the Persian Gulf and
the Mediterranean, and a sea-land corridor linking China with
Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Indian Ocean, and through the
South China Sea to the South Pacific. Further corridors will be
developed through China-Mongolia-Russia, China-Central Asia-West
Asia and China-Indochina Peninsula. There will also be a
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and a
Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor.
Economic priorities involve coordinating, enhancing and
accelerating trade and transportation, eliminating obstacles on
the borders with regard to customs and multimodal transport,
promoting connectivity of energy infrastructure, enhancing
cooperation in oil and gas, in hydropower and in nuclear energy,
and collaboration among the nations in developing new industries,
setting up science centers and cross-border economic and
investment zones.
The “Road and Belt” will also be supported through a number
of new financial institutions, the action plan continues: the
AIIB, the BRICS Bank, the Silk Road Fund. A financial arm will be
established in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and
cooperation will be strengthened in the China-ASEAN Interbank
Association and SCO Interbank Association. China will also allow
companies and financial institutions with good credit ratings to
issue renminbi bonds in China for their financing needs. They
will also create a regional financial risk early-warning system,
and create an exchange and cooperation mechanism for addressing
cross-border risks and crisis.
The cultural exchanges are equally important with the
promotion of student exchanges between the “Belt and Road”
countries promoting tourism along the Belt and Road as well as
sports exchanges; cooperation in the area of medicine and in the
control of epidemics and other medical emergencies in the region
as well. Joint labs and research centers will be set up to
promote innovation in science.
The report goes on to indicate the effects this will have in
the continued “reform and opening up” policy in China, including
the development of the northwest region with Xian in the center
and the northeast region with a focal point in Harbin and
corridors going north into Russia and Mongolia.
In addition there will be a development of a western
corridor from the Yangtze Delta region along the Yangtze River to
Chongqing and to Chengdu, which has become a transportation hub
along the Central Asian Economic Belt. Such a Yangtze River
Corridor would also include such inland cities as Changsha,
Nanchang and Hefei, the site of the China Science and Technology
University and the Chinese fusion program. The action plan also
indicates accelerating cooperation between the upper and middle
reaches of the Yangtze and their counterparts along Russia’s
Volga River. [wcj]

Med formand Tom Gillesberg

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Russisk Samfund i Danmark og Schiller Instituttet inviterer til debatmøde:

På vej mod atomkrig med Rusland?
Eller samarbejde med BRIKS-landene om økonomisk udvikling?

Fredag den 27. marts kl. 19:00

Salen, Medborgerhuset på Biblioteket, Danasvej 30 B, Frederiksberg

Talere:
Jens Jørgen Nielsen, journalist, ruslandsekspert, underviser og forfatter. Tidligere journalist for Politiken i Rusland og forfatter til bogen ”På egne præmisser, Putin og det nye Rusland”.

Tom Gillesberg, formand for Schiller Instituttet og LaRouche-bevægelsen i Danmark, og kandidat uden for partierne til Folketinget.

Gratis adgang

For 25 år siden var verden i en tilstand af eufori. Den kolde Krig var slut, og russerne ønskede at opbygge et fælles europæisk hus sammen med vesteuropæerne. I dag er vi måske tættere på en atomkrig end under Den kolde Krig. Hvordan og hvorfor er vi endt der? Og hvilken rolle har både NATO’s og EU’s udvidelse spillet i den udvikling? Jens Jørgen Nielsen kommer med sin vurdering af baggrunden for den eskalerende og farlige udvikling.

Drivkraften i den strategiske krise er spændingen mellem det voksende kollaps af det vestlige, transatlantiske finanssystem og fremvæksten af en ny global magtfaktor i form af BRIKS-landene (Brasilien, Rusland, Indien, Kina og Sydafrika), som er blevet omdrejningspunktet for etableringen af en ny retfærdig økonomisk verdensorden. Tom Gillesberg vil fremlægge et alternativ til konfrontation og krig. Danmark, Europa og USA bør samarbejde med BRIKS, der allerede er i færd med at etablere en Ny Udviklingsbank og en monetær fond.
Kina er med sin politik for Den nye Silkevej i gang med at bygge infrastrukturprojekter og etablere nye kreditinstitutioner, som Danmark og resten af verdens nationer er blevet inviteret til at deltage i, og som vil muliggøre økonomisk udvikling og samarbejde mellem alle verdens lande.

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Med formand Tom Gillesberg

21. marts 2015 – Det er kun logisk, at i en verden, der i de sidste 25 år systematisk har været underkastet globaliseringen, også gennem rent overfladiske, forskellige processer spiller ekstremt tæt sammen og forstærker hinanden – og det så meget desto mere, som den transatlantiske verden har kurs mod et nyt kæmpekrak, og store dele af verden er styrtet ud i oprør gennem geopolitiske manøvrer.

Denne indre sammenhæng eksisterer f.eks. i øjeblikket mellem det verdensomspændende sejrstog, som virkeliggøres gennem Kinas nye økonomiske Silkevejsmodel og den hermed forbundne Asiatiske Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB), og så det voksende momentum for genindførelsen af Glass/Steagall-bankopdelingen. I USA fører det demokratiske præsidentkandidatemne, Martin O’Malley, an i denne kampagne.

Her kort før udgangen af marts måned – som er deadline for staters anmodning om optagelse som stiftende medlem af den kinesisk-initierede Asiatisk Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank, AIIB – er antallet af stater i Asien allerede steget til 27, og ud over disse asiatiske stater kommer, efter Storbritannien, nu også Tyskland, Frankrig, Italien, Luxembourg, Schweiz, Ny Zealand og Australien til, og Sydkorea og selv Japan kunne også komme med. Det attraktive ved AIIB ligger i, at banken, i modsætning til den transatlantiske banksektor, som, på trods af ECB’s pengestrøm, knap nok udsteder kredit til middelstanden, udelukkende finansierer realøkonomiske projekter og indbefatter alle lande, der samarbejder inden for det ekspanderende område for det kinesiske perspektiv om »Et bælte, En vej«.

Ved hjælp af brutalt pres havde Obamaregeringen forgæves forsøgt at afholde andre stater fra at deltage i AIIB, og de får nu massiv kritik fra alle sider over, at det var en fejltagelse af format at gøre spørgsmålet om en bank, hvis formål er den regionale finasiering af infrastruktur, til en konkurrencekonfrontation mellem USA og Kina, og så dernæst så åbenlyst tabe denne kamp. Årsagen til denne fejlvurdering, at man mener at kunne standse noget, der allerede skrider fremad, hvad enten man støtter det eller ej – således formuleredes det af Paul Haenle, direktør for Carnegie-Tsinghua-Centret i Beijing – ligger naturligvis i den amerikanske fordring på at ville være den eneste, tilbageværende supermagt i verden. De neokonservatives præmisse om doktrinen om »New American Century«, der går ud på, at man ikke må tillade, at nogen stat eller gruppe af stater nogensinde vil overhale USA i politik eller økonomisk magt, var under tre Bush-regeringer, og i de seneste mere end seks år også under Obamaregeringen, hovedlinjen. Da Kina efter Lehman Brothers-krisen i 2008 krævede at få mere indflydelse i IMF og Verdensbanken, blev dette afvist gennem en afstemning i den amerikanske Kongres. Som konsekvens af denne afvisning tænkte Kina sig om og kom frem til, at de, med deres tre billioner i valutareserve, rådede over tilstrækkelig likviditet til ganske enkelt selv at kunne indlede oprettelsen af en ny finansinstitution, der dækker de fremvoksende landes og udviklingslandenes behov for kredit til finansiering af infrastruktur og realøkonomiske projekter. Og eftersom samarbejdet med AIIB, såvel som også den fælles opbygning af den Nye Silkevej, skal give alle deltagere ligeværdige fordele, altså en »win-win«-strategi, som præsident Xi Jinping hele tiden understreger, viser dette perspektiv sig at være den overlegne model.

Det samme er tilfældet med meddelelsen om det demokratiske præsidentkandidatemne Martin O’Malley, der som den eneste demokrat allerede klart har tilkendegivet, at han har til hensigt at deltage i primærvalgene til næste år. Med sine klare krigserklæringer mod Wall Streets kriminelle politik fører han i øjeblikket valgkamp i staten Iowa og lagde i et interview med avisen Des Moines Register ikke fingrene imellem: De officielle statistikker over det angivelige opsving i den amerikanske økonomi tilslørede blot den kendsgerning, at millioner af familier stadig må lide under følgerne af Wall Streets hensynsløse politik, der førte til krakket i 2008, og som iflg. en undersøgelse har kostet hver amerikansk husstand 120.000 dollar. Hvis Glass/Steagall-loven, der i 70 år beskyttede Amerika mod en større finanskrise, ikke var blevet ophævet i 1999, ville det aldrig være kommet til dette krak. Derfor er, iflg. O’Malley, genindførelsen af Glass/Steagall den alvorligste strukturreform, som i dag er en nødvendighed.

I dag skulle USA’s fem største banker kontrollere 15 billioner dollar. Disse banker, der angiveligt skulle være for store til, at man kan lade dem gå ned, er i virkeligheden for store til at have succes, og de må, som en presserende nødvendighed, opdeles i kommercielle banker og investeringsbanker. En fundamental ændring i Wall Street-kulturen var nødvendig, der må atter indføres ansvarlighed, kriminelle banker må retsforfølges, fjernes fra deres position og forhindres i at betale deres bøder med aktieindehavernes penge eller trække dem fra i skat. I tilfælde af en gentagelse skal bankernes licens inddrages.

Det var på højeste tid, sagde O’Malley, at nationale interesser gik forud for Wall Street.

O’Malley får i hemmelighed eller åbenlyst støtte fra mange tidligere Hillary Clinton-tilhængere, som er skuffede over hendes mange udsalg over for Obama. O’Malley er netop den kat i den amerikanske valgkamp, der kan sætte musene en skræk i livet.

AIIB har principielt den samme betydning for kampen for atter at gøre banksektoren til realøkonomiens tjener, som O’Malleys kamp imod Wall Streets kasinoøkonomi har for atter at sætte menneskers almene vel i centrum for økonomien. I Europa udkæmpes den samme krig mellem den nye, græske regering og Trojkaen. Italiens tidligere økonomiminister og nuværende senator, Giulio Tremonti, karakteriserede den aktuelle situation i en tale til det italienske Senats plenarforsamling: ikke engang Margaret Thatcher ville have vovet at gennemtvinge det nuværende EU’s reformer; problemet var ikke, at Grækenland var kommet ind i Europa, men at Europa var kommet ind i Grækenland. Han sammenlignede EU med den romerske Kejser Elagabal, der anses for at være en af de mest degenererede i den lange række af degenererede romerske kejsere. Hvorfor ECB, Dijsselbloem og Schäuble, på trods af, at deres politik, der har styrtet den græske befolkning ud i elendighed og iflg. FN er en overtrædelse af menneskerettighederne, er en åbenlys fiasko, alligevel holder fast på deres hårde linje, gør de såkaldte økonomiske vismænds chef Christoph Schmidts mening klart: De politiske virkninger ville være endnu farligere end de økonomiske følger af en græxit, hvis Grækenland fik lov til ensidigt at opsige de traktatmæssige betingelser for redningspakkerne. I så fald kunne politiske strømninger i Europa, der lovede angiveligt lette løsninger på krisen, få et opsving og mere tilslutning, sagde Schmidt i Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung.

Det er karakteristisk for bureaukrater, at de ikke føler sig ansvarlige for konsekvenserne af deres underskrift. At ikke blot Grækenland, men hele Sydeuropa er i oprør imod Trojkaens system, der som følge af en gigantisk svindel til gavn for bankerne forkorter menneskers liv og styrter mennesker ud i fortvivlelse, betyder intet for denne verdens mennesker af typen Schäuble, Draghis, Dijsselbloem og C. Schmidt. Heller ikke den bekymrende situation i Tyskland, som blev belyst i en udsendelse i Deutschlandfunk den 18. marts med overskriften, »Ubehaget over for politik og medier«, bekymrer dem.

I øjeblikket er tre græske ministre i Kina for at forberede premierminister Tsipras’ besøg i maj, og yderligere to andre er i Moskva for at forberede Tsipras’ rejse dertil i april. Hvis EU holder fast ved sin konfrontationspolitik, er det kun et spørgsmål om meget kort tid, før Grækenland tilslutter sig BRIKS.

Hvad enten det er vanskeligt at fatte for de mennesker, der er ofre for massemediernes sorte propaganda eller ej: BRIKS-staterne er i færd med at sætte en helt anden standard for samarbejde mellem suveræne nationer, hvor målet er gensidig fordel til gavn for hele menneskehedens almene vel, og derfor er det den mere attraktive model af de to, som flere og flere nationer vil tilslutte sig.

Vi er, som menneskehed betragtet, kommet til et punkt i vores arts evolution, hvor vi kun vil overleve, hvis vi gør det, der adskiller os fra alle andre levende væsener, til vores almene identitet: nemlig, at vi til stadighed kan opnå nye erkendelser om den fysiske skabelsesorden og ved hjælp af disse kan videreudvikle denne orden. Vi er den eneste art, der kan gøre sig forestillinger om en fremtid for menneskeheden og en bedre, skønnere orden for nationernes sameksistens på denne planet, der i tiltagende grad modsvarer den kosmiske orden.

I denne ånd, og i overensstemmelse med den konfucianske filosofi, har den kinesiske regering nu gentaget sin invitation til USA om at være med i AIIB og opbygningen af Den nye Silkevej. Og listen af underskrivere af en resolution/appel, som Schiller Instituttet cirkulerer over hele verden med denne opfordring (se http://schillerinstitut.dk/si/?p=2702), vokser og vokser.

Hjælp også du os med at føre menneskeheden ind i en ny, bedre epoke!

Billede: Power point, som blev brugt til at oplyse danske politikere om dannelsen af BRIKS og AIIB og nødvendigheden af, at Danmark går med i dette samarbejde, ved Schiller Instituttets foretræde for Folketingets udenrigsudvalg den 2. dec., 2014.  

Følgende er en dansk oversættelse af E.I.R. STRATEGIC ALERT fra den 11. marts 2015.

E.I.R. Strategic Alert er udgivet hver uge af EIR’s europæiske hovedkontor i Wiesbaden, Tyskland på engelsk, tysk, fransk, og italiensk. Ring venligst til EIR’s kontor i København for information om abonnementspriser på +45 35 43 60 40. 

NATO eskalerer provokationerne rettet direkte mod Rusland

Medens våbenhvilen í Ukraine stort set ser ud til at holde, bestræber Obama Administrationen, fulgt af et antal ”allierede” regeringer, sig straks på med endnu en ”sag”, mordet på oppositionspolitikeren Boris Nemtsov, at ramme Rusland og Præsident Putin, som for at bekræfte at orkestreringen af krisen i Ukraine bare var et muligt middel at benytte.

Samtidig eskalerer den militære aktivitet. Den 4. marts sejlede fire NATO-skibe ind i Sortehavet for at gennemføre anti-lufts- og anti-ubådskrigsøvelser. Rusland holder øvelser i samme region, idet de tester kampfly tilhørende Sortehavsflåden for deres evner til at udføre forsvarsoperationer.

Desuden meddelte det russiske forsvarsministerium den 4. marts, at der også ville blive afholdt luftforsvarsøvelser i det ”Sydlige Militære Distrikt”, som grænser op til både Ukraine og Sortehavet, der ville omfatte 2000 tropper.

Medens sådanne militære øvelser ikke er usædvanlige, udgør det forhold, at Nato’s og de russiske tropper er så tæt på hinanden dog en alvorlig fare for en direkte konfrontation. Især på et tidspunkt, hvor Obama-regeringen og Nato-ledelsen dramatisk optrapper deres retoriske krig mod Præsident Putin.

Den retorik kom til fuld udfoldelse på Capitol Hill (den amerikanske kongres) i sidste uge, med erklæringer fra udenrigsministerens sekretær, Victoria Nuland, Georgiens tidligere præsident Mikheil Saakashvili (nu rådgiver til Ukraines præsident Poroshenko) samt anti-Putin fanatiker Garry Kasparov. Nuland pressede på for flere sanktioner mod Rusland, og især flere våben til Ukraine.

Hun fik begrænset modstand, bortset fra Repræsentant Dana Rohrabacher, en demokrat fra Californien, som beskyldte hende for at ville sabotere Minsk-aftalerne. Det amerikanske diplomatis opgave er at opnå fred i Ukraine, sagde han, ”ikke at modarbejde og ydmyge Rusland igen og igen”. Nulands fremtræden for Kongres-komiteen skete samtidig med en aktion på Capitol Hill af aktivister fra den ukrainske Congress Committee of America, en Bandarist-frontgruppe, som pressede på for at starte krig mod Rusland.

Allerede før de farlige krumspring på Capitol Hill og på Sortehavet havde højtstående russiske embedsmænd gentaget advarsler om, at Rusland har udbygget kapaciteten til at besvare enhver militær provokation strategisk. Den 1. marts gav generalmajor Andrei Burbin, chef for den Centrale Kommandopost for Ruslands Strategiske Missilstyrker (SMF), en usædvanlig briefing, der understregede, at Rusland er klar til at anvende deres strategiske atomvåben, hvis landet bliver angrebet. Medens USA moderniserer deres atomvåben i Europa under den vildfarelse, at de ville være i stand til at gennemføre en ”begrænset” atomkrig mod Rusland og eventuelt Kina (Prompt Global Strike), er Ruslands svar at understrege meget klart, at Rusland vil gengælde ved at bruge den fulde kraft fra deres interkontinentale ballistiske missiler, SMF.

LaRouche udfordrer Obamas falske anklager mod Putin.

Lyndon LaRouche fordømte den falske anklage mod Putin for mordet på politikeren Boris Nemtsov nær Kreml om natten den 27. februar. Ikke uventet hoppede de fleste vestlige medier straks på chancen til at anklage Kreml for at fjerne oppositionen.

Præsident Obama tilsluttede sig anklagen mod den russiske præsident i et Reuter-interview den 2. marts, og alene det bør medføre hans afgang fra posten, sagde LaRouche. Og i og med at Obama indrømmede at han ikke vidste, hvem der havde beordret drabet, tilføjede han. at Nemtsovs mord var en ”indikation på et klima, i det mindste internt i Rusland, hvor det civile samfund, uafhængige journalister, folk der prøvede at kommunikere på Internet, følte sig truet, var indskrænket”. Den amerikanske præsident fortsatte med at påstå, at den russiske stat kontrollerer alle medier i landet.

(Idet man nok skal undlade billige sammenligninger, er det dog værd at bemærke, at disse betragtninger kommer fra en leder af et land, hvis egne borgere er underlagt betydelig mega-overvågning, og endog tortur og drab med droner, hvor grundlæggende civile rettigheder undertrykkes betydeligt under Patriot Act, siden angrebet den 11. september, og hvor journalister såvel som wistleblowers er blevet mere chikaneret af den amerikanske regering under Barack Obama end på noget andet tidspunkt i nyere tid).

”Det betyder, at Obama må gå af,” sagde LaRouche. Verden står nu overfor en trussel om en global atomkrig, og det er total uansvarligt af præsidenten for De Forenede Stater at tillade udbredelsen af en rapport af denne karakter og at nægte at kommunikere civiliseret med en anden statsleder.

Efter Hollande bryder Renzi også med ”Isoler Putin”-fronten

Den 4. marts blev Italiens Premiere Minister Matteo Renzi den anden leder fra et Nato-land til at besøge Moskva siden udbruddet af krisen i Ukraine, efter den franske præsident Francois Hollande.

Tre emner dominerede Renzis samtaler med Vladimir Putin: Ukraine-spørgsmålet, Libyen-krisen og bilaterale økonomiske forhold.

Før mødet havde Renzi mødt 130 italienske forretningsfolk i den italienske ambassade, der havde tegnet et dramatisk billede af de økonomiske skader, som sanktionerne havde forvoldt.

Om Ukraine gentog Renzi sit forslag om at anvende Sydtyrol-modellen, til at løse problemet. Sydtyrol (Alto Adige) er en italiensk region med en ”speciel status”, som tillader brede regnskabsmæssige privilegier og et tosproget styre.

Det Libyske forhold er særlig presserende for Italien. Libyen hærges af en borgerkrig, som kunne føre til en udbredelse af ISIS dertil. Hvis Libyen lander i totalt kaos, kunne Italien miste en vigtig olieleverandør og blive oversvømmet af tusinder, hvis ikke millioner af flygtninge. Dertil kommer truslen om terrorisme. På det seneste har Italien nærmet sig Egypten, der får hjælp fra Rusland, som nu støtter den internationalt accepterede regering i Tobruk politisk og militært imod den fraktion i Tripoli, der domineres af det Muslimske Broderskab.

Hvis de aktuelle forhandlinger om at forene regeringerne i Tobruk og Tripoli, som ledes af FN’s specielle udsendinge, Bernardino Leon, mislykkes, vil Renzi-regeringen være parat til at gå videre med en plan B ved FN’s sikkerhedsråd. Plan B inkluderer opbakning til den militære løsning, som ledes af Egypten, med støtte og leverancer og en ”koalition af villige” til at opbygge en flådebaseret blokade. Renzi har inviteret Rusland til at deltage i en sådan blokade.

Vil Grækenland afsløre Draghis bluf.

Som forventet bekendtgjorde Den Europæiske Centralbanks ledende bestyrelse den 5. marts udstedelsen af En billion Euro som ”Kvantitative Lettelser”, i et program som kaldes Public Sector Purchase Program (”PSPP”), i endnu et desperat forsøg på at redde finanssystemet med en flodbølge af likviditet.

Desværre, med mere end 2 billioner Euro- lån på bankernes bøger, som intet producerer, vil denne indsprøjtning ikke stoppe marchen mod katastrofen.

Samtidig meddelte ECB præsident Mario Draghi, at hans bank vil fortsætte med at straffe ikke bare Grækenland, men også Cypern. Han sagde, at ECB ikke vil genoprette muligheden for at grækerne kan anvende deres obligationer som sikkerhed, med den begrundelse at grækerne ikke har en aftale med Eurogroup. Cypern var udelukket, fordi de ikke fik etableret den lov om tvangsauktion, som deres kreditorer forlangte, hvilket ville have tvunget husejerne på gaden.

Om klagen mod Grækenland erklærer visestatsminister Yiannis Dragasakis, at det er løgn, idet han henviser til aftalen af 20. februar, som forlængede Grækenlands beføjelser med grundplanen for finansfacilitetsmekanismen. Den aftale blev oven i købet bekræftet med stort flertal i den tyske Bundestag.

ECB ’s påstand er endnu et blufnummer, med dets krav om at den græske regering komplet

underkaster sig det europæiske finansielle oligarki eller forlader Eurozonen. Medens Grækenland uden tvivl ville klare sig bedre i sidste tilfælde, ville deres afgang signalere forspillet til euroens kollaps, som Cypern, Portugal, Spanien, Italien og Irland snarest ville følge.

Athen har en plan B

Bare få timer før ECB’s vedtagelse sagde Grækenlands finansminister Yanis Varoufakis ved en sammenkomst organiseret af Græsk-Fransk Handels- og Industrikammer, at der er en plan B, hvis landet ikke kan få finansiering. Selvom han ikke gav nogen detaljer, står ”B” i plan B i virkeligheden for BRICS. I virkeligheden, bare en dag senere, blev det meddelt, at visestatsminister Dragasakis og udenrigsminister Nikos Kotzias snart vil besøge Kina for at forberede et officielt besøg af statsminister Alexis Tsipras i maj. Ligeledes i maj vil Tsipras aflægge sit første officielle besøg i Rusland for at møde Vladimir Putin.

Den 2. marts, i et interview med Sputnik News, gentog Udenrigsminister Kotzias, at Grækenland kunne agere som brobygger mellem Europa og Rusland. Om Grækenland og Rusland sagde han: ”Der har aldrig været krig imellem os; der har aldrig været modsatrettede kræfter, vi har aldrig haft nogen negative modsætninger, som der eksisterer mellem EU’s medlemsstater. Det betyder, at vi er det land, der kunne spille rollen som brobygger”. Kotzias talte også imod sanktioner, idet han sagde, at Rusland burde integreres i den europæiske sikkerhedsarkitektur.

Om de andre lande i BRICS noterede Kotzias, at Grækenland er ”specielt forbundet med lande som Indien (i oldtiden), Kina (da vi var to store civilisationer og kulturer – Kina i Asien og Grækenland i Europa gennem tre–fire tusinde år) og Rusland, med hvem vi altid har haft dybe historiske, kulturelle og religiøse bånd”.

Syrizas parlamentsmedlem Kostas Lapavitsas går helt ind for at forlade Eurozonen. Han skrev i The Guardian, at han opfordrer til en total afmontering af Eurozonen for at redde både Grækenland og Europa.

”Eurozonen kan ikke reformeres, og den kan ikke blive en ”venlig” monetær union, som støtter arbejdende mennesker. Grækenland må lægge en hel række muligheder på bordet, og man må være forberedt på at tage helt ekstraordinære likviditetstiltag for at være sikker på at kunne løse

alle eventualiteter, hvis befolkningen var klar. EU har i realiteten allerede påtvunget landet en katastrofe….”

Labavitas, en økonom, håber, at Syriza ”endelig vil medvirke til at redde Europa til afskaffelse af den absurditet fællesmønten er blevet”. Så ville stramningspolitikken kunne ophæves ” på hele kontinentet”.

”Bail-In” i Østrig viser ECB-politikkens tåbelighed

Med ECB’s introduktion af ”kvantitative lettelser” på 1 billion Euro, og med gennemførslen af den første ”bail-in” i sagen om den østrigske ”dårlige bank” HETA har vi påbegyndt en ny fase i EU-politikken. Begge tiltag, beregnet til at redde systemet, har en destruktiv karakter. Hvis ECB-politikken gennemføres, vil den ødelægge værdien af penge, medens ”bail-in”-metoden er et dobbeltægget sværd, som mange analytikere, der er bekymrede for tilbageslag på obligationsmarkedet, har advaret om.

Ironisk er det, at de samme værdier som ECB støtter, som f. eks. ”Asset Backed Securities” og ”Covered Bonds”, kommer i fare på grund af ”bail-in”-mekanismen.

Den 1. marts blev likvidationen og misligholdelsen af den 9 milliarder euro store gæld bekendtgjort. Eftersom disse giftige værdier i denne dårlige bank — resterne af sidste års Hypo Alpe Altria Banks konkurs — var garanteret af regeringen og Kärnten-provinsen, mistede regeringen i virkeligheden de 9 milliarder euro, fordi de nægtede at forlænge garantien for yderligere tab. Regeringen brugte den nye Eurozone ”bail-in” lov til at påføre tab for bankkunders indestående.  det er første gang det er sket (ikke engang på Cypern).

Den østrigske beslutning har fremkaldt ildevarslende ligheder med kollapsen af Creditanstalt i 1931, som startede den store depression. Denne nye konkurs vil helt sikkert få international opmærksomhed. Den bayerske delstats regering har meddelt, at den vil udfordre beslutningen om denne ”bail-in”, fordi den står til at miste 800 millioner euro.

Hypo Alpe Adria var ikke en indskyderbank, og derfor blev ingen indskydere ramt af denne ”bail-in”. Alligevel kan tabet skabe panik på obligationsmarkedet, hvis der spredes en opfattelse om at obligationsinvesteringer ikke længere er sikre i Eurozonen. EU’s ”bail-in”-regulering er som et vandfald, der starter med aktier og usikrede obligationer, men kan også involvere sikrede værdier, som f.eks. dækkede obligationer, hvis ”bail-in-massen ikke er tilstrækkelig. Det er lige netop det der diskuteres i forbindelse med den dårlige Heta bank.

Den eneste løsning vil være en europæisk gældskonference, der også skal omfatte en bankopdeling, som foreslået af EIR.

Elizabeth Warren: Frihandelsaftalerne er en stor gave til de multinationale.

Den amerikanske demokratiske senator Elizabeth Warren er i stigende grad talsmand for det voksende antal amerikanere, som ønsker en Glass/Steagall-bankopdeling, og som ønsker at straffe Wall Streets forbrydelser. Den 25. februar kom hun ud med en fordømmelse af et andet projekt, som Obama-administrationen energisk skubber på, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Det er en søster-aftale til Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), omfattende EU og USA, og som energisk bekæmpes i Europa.

Det primære mål med Senator Elizabeth Warrens leder-kommentar i Washington Post – bortset fra de hemmelighedsfulde forhold forhandlingerne føres under – er tilliden til den overnationale

juridiske kommission kendt som ”Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” eller ISDS. Det er et fælles forhold i begge traktater og et af de mest kontroversielle i EU.

Warren skrev, at ikke alene ville ISDS ”ødelægge spillebanen” i de multinationales favør, men endnu værre, underminere national suverænitet. I det tilfælde at et multinationalt selskab er utilfreds med den eksisterende lovgivning i det land hvor de opererer — det kunne være om bankseparation, lov om minimumsløn, forbud mod kemiske gifte — vil selskabet kunne tage uoverensstemmelsen, ikke til det relevante lands retssale, men til en international voldgiftsafgørelse, hvis afgørelse ikke kan appelleres, og hvis afgørelse træffes af erhvervsadvokater.

Som Senator Bernie Sanders har påpeget, skrives disse frihandelsaftaler i virkeligheden af ”lederne af de multinationale selskaber, som står til at profitere enorme summer” på aftalerne, medens de amerikanske lovgivere, som repræsenterer det amerikanske folk, bliver holdt udenfor.

I EU har nogle europæiske parlamentarikere, efter svære bestræbelser, opnået begrænset adgang til dokumenterne, imod at de måtte sværge på aldrig at videregive et ord af hvad de har læst.

Som svar på Warrens kronik svarede Det hvide Hus straks, at ”ISDS vil ikke og kommer ikke til at kræve ændringer i noget lands love eller regulativer”. Men senatorens påstand var ikke, at der blev pålagt ændringer af nogen love, men at en stor bank eller et stort multinationalt selskab ville kunne påstå, at disse love uretfærdigt havde skadet deres interesser, og at de hindrer frihandel, og som følge af det ville de blive belønnet med ”millioner – og måske endda milliarder af dollars som erstatning”, hvilket skatteyderne kommer til at betale.

Senator Warren nævnte nogle få sager som var kommet under ISDS’ behandling. Et fransk firma havde stævnet et egyptisk firma for at have hævet minimumslønnen, et svensk firma havde stævnet Tyskland for at ville udfase atomkraft, et hollandsk firma havde sagsøgt den tjekkiske stat for at undlade ”bail-out” af en bank som var delvis eget af firmaet. Philip Morris forsøger lige nu at bruge ISDS til at forhindre Uruguay i at indføre nye regler, med det formål at reducere rygning.

Det kan evt. ende med at ISDS bliver taget ud af TTIP, men et andet meget kontroversielt aspekt af det er forslaget om at harmonisere regulativerne for forskellige produkter, hvilket i virkeligheden ville kunne forhindre noget europæiske land i at indføre standarder, som var uacceptable for en anden enhed (jfr. følgende artikel).

TTPI: En perfid ”variabel aftale”

Det råd, sammensat af repræsentanter fra EU og USA, som skal regulere aftalen, skal beslutte hvilke fremtidige lovændringer, fra begge sider, der er i overensstemmelse med traktaten. Det gør den til en ”variabel aftale”, som Giorgio Garbasso fra Delors Foundation har afsløret:

”TTIP vil højest sandsynligt involvere en institutionel udvikling med skabelse af et transatlantisk laboratorium. Sådanne transnationale enheder er hvor og hvornår man sammen kan udarbejde og diskutere om reguleringen løser det samme problem, og om de besluttede forholdsregler er i overensstemmelse med reglerne.

Men der er en risiko. Den transnationale platform af reguleringsenheder tillader ikke længere kun at vælge de løsninger eller politikker, som deres befolkninger foretrækker, men også i overensstemmelse med de amerikanske modparters ønsker (og visa versa). Denne risiko for usikkerhed i reglerne rejser straks spørgsmålet om demokratisk legitimitet og respekt for vore politiske valg.

Derfor er det vigtigt at være opmærksom på denne risiko ved et teknokratisk system af transnationalt samarbejde. TTIP er en ”variabel aftale” og ender ikke med en underskrift. Når de

første parametre er fastlagt, begynder den at leve sit eget liv…. Det er en nøgle, der vil åbne flere døre end vi er i stand til at forudse”.

Medens den ukrainske økonomi kollapser – planlægger oligarkerne deres ”genrejsning”

Den 2. marts blev der i Wien præsenteret et ”Nyt Agentur til Modernisering af Ukraine” (AMU) for offentligheden, med det formål at rekonstruere Ukraines finans- og økonomiske politik indenfor de næste 200 dage. Initiativet lyder rigtig godt i betragtning af Ukraines forfaldne økonomi, indtil man forstår, at den 500 millioner euro store finansiering bliver leveret af tre berygtede ukrainske oligarker: Dmitri Firtash, Rinat Akhmetov og Viktor Pinchuk. De er blandt de oligarker der har profiteret mest på de økonomiske og sociale ulykker gennem de seneste 20 år.

AMU, som skal ledes af Østrigs tidligere finansminister, kommer til at nyde samarbejde med prominente vesteuropæere: tre tidligere EU-kommissærer: Peter Mandelsohn, Guenter Verheugen og Stefan Füle, tidligere tysk finansminister Peer Steinbrueck, tidligere tysk forsvarsminister Rupert Scholz, tidligere fransk udenrigsminister Bernard Kouchner, tidligere leder af fransk industri Laurence Parisot og tidligere polsk statsminister Wlodzimierz Cimozewicz.

Den kendsgerning at en af grundlæggerne er den franske ”intellektuelle” Bernard Henri-Levy, en ledende kupmagere på Maidan for et år siden, er nok til at diskreditere dette initiativ.

Meget interessant at det blev bekendtgjort bare to dage før Victoria Nuland, USA’s vice udenrigsminister for europæiske og eurasiske anliggender, fremlagde de angiveligt lyse udsigter der er for Ukrainskøkonomi i Komiteen for Udenrigsaffærer.

Nuland, som dirigerede kuppet i Ukraine, hævdede, at det nye parlament har vedtaget ”vigtige, men besværlige, reformer” for at stabilisere økonomien og derfor fortjener mere hjælp fra IMF og andre internationale donorer.

Men realiteten i Ukraine er anderledes. Økonomien kollapser med stigende hastighed, med inflation som forventes at blive mere end 25 %, og så knappe forsyninger af grundlæggende behov, at regeringen fra 25. februar har indført rationering i forretningerne på madolie, mel og sukker. Man må ikke købe mere end 2 flasker solsikkeolie og 2 pakker boghvede per kunde, og afhængig af forretningen, fra 2 til 5 kilo mel og sukker.

Endvidere kommer de nye lån fra IMF med strenge betingelser: med nedskæringer i sociale ydelser og stigning i forbrugernes energipriser, som steg næsten 300 % i februar. Den nationale mønt, Hryvnia, er faldet i værdi, hvilket får folk til at hamstre fødevarer og købe elektronik som en modforanstaltning.

Ukrainerne vil sikkert snart bede Victoria Nuland, som blev filmet sidste år, da hun gik rundt på Maidan og uddelte småkager, om nu at bringe noget med mere substans til at dæmpe sulten.

”Et bælte, En rute”

er vigtigst på kinesernes dagsorden, siger udenrigsministeren

Ved en diskussion med journalister den 8. marts blev den kinesiske udenrigsminister Wang Yi meget konkret spurgt om, hvad det vigtigste fokus for den kinesiske udenrigspolitik i 2015 ville være. ”Der vil være et fokus og to hovedtemaer”, svarede han. Det primære fokus vil være en meget omfattende udvikling af ”Et Bælte, En Rute”-politikken for at ”fremme infrastruktur og samspil” langs det Økonomiske Bælte og Silkevejen og dermed tjene til ”at genoplive det eurasiske kontinent som helhed”.

De to temaer, forklarede Wang, vil blive ”fred og udvikling”. I den forbindelse noterede han, at mødet i Konferencen om Samspil og Tillidsskabende Forhold i Asien (CICA) og APEC-mødet sidste år fik ”meget støtte fra mange lande” og havde gjort et ”dybt indtryk”.

Da han blev spurgt om ”Et bælte, En Rute”-programmet kunne sammenlignes med Marshall-planen, indikerede Wang, at der var behov for et nyt paradigme. Det er både meget ældre og meget yngre end Marshall-planen, sagde han. Skønt født i ånden af den urgamle ”Silkevej” var det også født i den aktuelle tid med globalisering, forklarede han. ”Det kan ikke betragtes som en kold krigsmentalitet. Det vil skabe synergi for andre udviklingsinstitutioner. For at bruge en musikalsk analogi skal ”Et Bælte, En Rute” ses som en symfoni med delene fremført af alle relevante lande, sagde han.

Om effekterne af sanktionerne mod Rusland sagde udenrigsministeren, at ”det kinesisk-russiske forhold ikke var dikteret af internationale omskiftelser”. I år vil bilateral handel komme op på 100 milliarder dollars. Der vil blive påbegyndt en østlig rute for en olieledning, og der vil blive underskrevet en aftale om en vestlig rute. Det er begge landes plan at samarbejde om olie og gas og atomkraft-energiproduktion, såvel som højhastighedsjernbaner.

Idet han noterede, at både Kina og Rusland var permanente medlemmer af FN’s sikkerhedsråd, sagde Wang, at de ville fortsætte samarbejdet med at ”sikre fred”, og begge vil ”holde mindehøjtideligheder for at fejre sejren over fascismen”.

Han noterede senere, at ”Kina er altid en konstruktiv enhed til at udvikle en verdensorden” og ”de første til at underskrive FN’s charter. Idet han sammenlignede FN med et skib, sagde han, at Kina ”ønskede at samarbejde med andre passagerer for at sikre, at skibet er stabilt og bevæger sig i den rigtige retning”.

Baggrund: Årsagen til at Amerika har behov for en ny renæssance.

I sin vurdering af udsigten til at USA under Præsident Obama styrer mod selvdestruktion, har Lyndon LaRouche gentagne gange insisteret på, at der ikke er nogen ”praktisk løsning” på problemet. Det må løses ud fra det højeste udgangspunkt for menneskets egentlige rolle i samfundet.

Problemet er ikke bare, at Barack Obama er en marionetdukke, som styres af finanskartellet i City of London og Wall Street, der er håbløst bankerot; eller at disse kræfter er engageret i en vanvittig leg om atomkrig mod Rusland; eller at de tror de kunne vinde en ”begrænset” atomkrig – skønt disse tre faktorer alle er rigtige.

Men det reelle problem, insisterer LaRouche, er næsten alle amerikaneres underdanighed overfor ”populære meninger”, ”den offentlige mening”, som medfører at de accepterer sådanne ledere. Endvidere, at denne underkastelse stammer fra en afvisning af at mennesket har en højere og bredere funktion i hele solsystemet, hvilket tillader mennesker at tro, at de kan finde et ”hyggeområde”, hvor de kan overleve, indenfor et samfund som er dumt nok til at lade depraverede oligarkiske eliter regere.

Resultatet af dette er, at politiske debatter i USA kontrolleres af tankedræbende sociale ”meninger”, domineret af populistiske emner som f.eks. homoseksuelles rettigheder, abort, ”statens rettigheder” o.s.v. Debatniveauet i Kongressen og i valgkampagner er barnligt, omhyggeligt skabt til at dække over den realitet, at de bliver kontrolleret af toppen af finanseliten, som ikke tillader en reel debat om løsninger, afledt af Amerikas egentlige, originale formål.

Det var ikke altid sådan.

I det lys insisterer LaRouche på, at Amerika må gå tilbage til sine originale rødder som en republik. Selv om vi ikke her kan dække dette emne fyldestgørende, noterer vi, at LaRouche især har understreget kardinal Nicholas af Cusas virke (1401-1464) for at iværksætte Renæssancens kulturelle og videnskabelige revolution i, som bygger på den historiske mission, som tidligere blev defineret af Jeanne d’Arc, så vel som udviklingen af disse ideer af Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Alle tre bidrog til at omdanne den statiske økonomi og sociale organisation i Europas feudale imperier. Grundlæggerne af den Amerikanske Republik, især Benjamin Franklin og Alexander Hamilton, som var ansvarlige for udformningen af USA’s konstitution, og de økonomiske principper der var indarbejdet heri, kom direkte fra denne tradition.

De handlede på højere principper end ”praktisk politik”, fordi de forstod, at menneskets sande identitet ” er baseret på det han eller hun bidrager til menneskehedens fremtid”, og intet mindre, sagde LaRouche. En nation som ikke indarbejder dette koncept i dens ledelsessprincipper er dømt til at reducere en stor del af sine borgere til at blive slaviske ofre for sanseindtryk, der altid vil underkaste sig de regerende magter for at overleve. Intet mindre end en sådan kamp vil lykkes i dag, siger LaRouche.

Med formand Tom Gillesberg

14. mrs. 2015 – Den tidligere guvernør for Maryland, Martin O’Malley, skaber i øjeblikket store overskrifter i USA, fordi han er den første kandidat fra det Demokratiske Parti, der hidtil entydigt har erklæret, at han stiller op til præsidentvalget, og at den første forholdsregel, som han ville gennemføre som præsident, er genindførelsen af Glass/Steagall-bankopdelingsloven. Denne meddelelse kunne vise sig at blive et afgørende vendepunkt for hele den amerikanske politik, for herefter vil alle andre kandidater – og selvfølgelig også Hillary Clinton – blive målt op mod denne målestok, om han/hun er parat til at forsvare det almene vel med Glass/Steagall, eller om han/hun accepterer Wall Streets kriminelle system.

Af strategisk betydning var ligeledes den tyske udenrigsminister Frank-Walter Steinmeiers intervention i Washington, hvor han under samtaler med den amerikanske udenrigsminister John Kerry og i en tale for tænketanken CSIS indtrængende advarede mod levering af tunge, amerikanske våben til Ukraine, fordi dette ville optrappe konflikten til en ny fase, hvor man ikke længere kunne vende om. Hvis Ukraine fik amerikanske våben, ville Rusland til gengæld udruste separatisterne med flere våben, og balancen ville forblive den samme, men på et højere niveau; men konflikten kunne komme ud af kontrol, og ville ikke være til gavn for nogen, og slet ikke ukrainerne. Ikke en eneste militær løsning i nyere tid havde været succesfuld, og der var intet alternativ til den møjsommelige proces med diplomatiske forhandlinger, iflg. Steinmeier.

Samtidig advarede tidl. kansler Helmut Schmidt om, at konflikten i Ukraine truer med at blive til en ’varm krig’, hvis Vesten forsømmer at tage Putins berettigede bekymringer i betragtning. Iflg. Schmidt blev den grundlæggende fejl, der har ført til denne krise, skabt for et kvart århundrede siden i Maastricht, da EU’s udvidelse mod øst blev besluttet.

Steinmeier kritiserede i Washington også de nye lovforslag fra 47 senatorer om yderligere sanktioner mod Iran, som kunne medføre fiasko for slutfasen af »5+1-forhandlingerne« om det iranske atomprogram, en fiasko, der ville få katastrofale følger for hele Mellemøsten og måske endda hele planeten. Dette indbragte ham et udbrud fra den uudsigelige senator McCain, som Steinmeier til gengæld klandrede for at tilhøre »diplomatiets Neville-Chamberlain-skole«.

Fælleselementet mellem O’Malleys meddelelse om, at hans første embedshandling som præsident ville være genindførelsen af Glass/Steagall-bankopdelingsloven, og Steinmeiers intervention i Washington mod de truende våbenleverancer fra USA til Ukraine, består i, at begge handlinger ganske vist endnu ikke løser den strategiske, eksistentielle krise, men dog viser et potentiale til at løse den.

O’Malleys fokus på de dramatiske hårde livsbetingelser, som spekulanternes og Wall Street-storbankernes profitgriskhed har haft som konsekvens for befolkningen, og nødvendigheden af at rehabilitere den oprindelige Glass/Steagall-lov, er ikke betydningsfuldt for 2016, men for lige nu. For ECB-chef Mario Draghis beslutning om, hver måned at pumpe 60 mia. euro(!) – i alt 1,2 bio. euro frem til september 2016 – ind i finanssektoren, og dermed atter »redde« bankerne, der er i en elendig forfatning, på bekostning af borgerne, afspejler det transatlantiske finanssystems desperate tilstand. Den samtidige beslutning om at forværre den græske regerings akutte pengenød gennem det skærpede handikap mht. nu at måtte benytte nødkreditter, efter at de græske banker allerede var blevet udelukket af den »kvantitative lempelse« med opkøb af statslån, betyder ikke andet, end at enden på Eurozonen er nær.

For Draghi frygter tydeligvis, at en imødekommenhed over for Grækenland gennem mildere betingelser ville have signalvirkning for Italien, Spanien, Portugal og Frankrig om også at smide Trojkaens nedskæringsdiktatur over bord! Og Grækenland hænger på hele den transatlantiske sektors absolut ubetalelige derivatboble. Netop derfor er finanssektorens og mediernes hysteri og aktuelle, næsten racistiske hetz mod et lille land, der kun udgør 1,6 % af Eurozonens BNP, så overproportioneret voldsom. Og kun således kan det forklares, at Schäuble konkurrerer med McCain om, hvem der kan komme med de største fornærmelser.

Den eneste mulighed for at standse finanssystemets truende, ukontrollerbare sammenbrud er netop ved at genindføre Glass/Steagall-loven, hvis ophævelse i 1999 blev mulig gennem en udspekuleret operation fra Det britiske Imperiums side imod Bill Clinton. Det var først efter ophævelsen af Glass/Steagall-bankopdelingsloven, der havde muliggjort en 70 år lang stabilitet i det amerikanske, og også det transatlantiske, banksystem, at det kom til disse uhyrlige spekulationsprofitter og den stadig større kløft mellem rig og fattig, som vi ser i dag. Med O’Malley er Glass/Steagall igen kommet på dagsordenen.

Det hjælper, at den græske europaparlamentariker Notis Marias har opfordret til indførelsen af Glass/Steagall-loven i Europaparlamentets plenumforsamling. For først, når USA og Europa har befriet sig for den enorme vægt af henved to bia. i udestående derivater, og en dermed forbundet statsgæld, gennem en lovreguleret reorganisering af bankvæsenet, er der en chance for at forhindre både det truende kollaps og faren for krig.

Det nye økonomiske system og finanssystem, som BRIKS-staterne og frem for alt Kina har skabt i løbet af det seneste halvandet år med politikken for den Nye Silkevej, og, i løbet af de seneste seks måneder, med diverse nye banker, der udelukkende er orienteret mod at finansiere realøkonomien, vokser i mellemtiden stærkt. I mellemtiden har 50 stater gjort det klart, at de vil samarbejde med BRIKS-staterne. Den 6. marts bekendtgjorde den kinesiske finansminister Lou Jiwei, at 27 stater allerede ønskede at deltage i oprettelsen af den Asiatiske Infrastruktur-Investeringsbank (AIIB) som stiftende medlemmer.

Storbritannien meddelte sidste torsdag, at det vil blive det 28. medlem. Inden for halvanden time angreb Det hvide Hus dette skridt fra briterne med, at det ikke var blevet aftalt med USA og var et yderligere udtryk for en fortsat imødekommenhed over for Kina. Briterne har rent historisk altid placeret sig i alle lejre – og frem for alt, i den vindende lejr!

Den eneste chance for at imødegå det truende, ukontrollerede finanskollaps og den akutte fare for en »varm krig« i Europa, som Helmut Schmidt siger, og som ifølge sagens natur ville udvikle sig til en global, termonuklear verdenskrig, ligger i de europæiske nationers og USA’s samarbejde med BRIKS-staterne om opbygningen af den Nye Silkevej, til at blive til en Verdenslandbro, der forbinder folkeslag og kontinenter. For kun på denne måde kan springet fra de formentlige geopolitiske interesser, der allerede har ført til to verdenskrige i det 20. århundrede, erstattes med et konkret grundlag for et nyt paradigme om menneskehedens fælles mål.

O’Malleys meddelelse demonstrerer, at den kampagne, som Lyndon LaRouche siden 2008 har ført for genindførelsen af Glass/Steagall i USA, og som de organisationer, der er forbundet med BüSo her i Europa, ligeledes har sat på dagsordenen, atter kan bringe Amerika tilbage til sin sande identitet som republik.

Steinmeiers intervention i Washington viser, at Tyskland og de andre europæiske nationer udmærket kan forsvare deres interesser, når det drejer sig om det eksistentielle spørgsmål og krig eller fred og, i dette tilfælde, om menneskeheden i fremtiden skal eksistere eller ej.

Storbritanniens beslutning om at arbejde med som stiftende medlem af AIIB understreger, at det også er ganske ligetil for de andre europæiske nationer at tage imod Xi Jinpings tilbud om at samarbejde om opbygningen af den Nye Silkevej og BRIKS-staternes nye finansarkitektur.

De første skridt til en bedre fremtid er taget.

Det, der nu er behov for, er en bred mobilisering af befolkningen, en massebevægelse for udvikling, for også at virkeliggøre dette eksisterende alternativ. Mange mennesker i er øjeblikket udmærket klar over faren for en stor krig, det beviser meningsmålinger, såvel som personlige samtaler. Det, som de fleste mennesker mangler, er håbet om at erkende et alternativ eller at kunne bidrage med noget til at bevæge verdenshistorien i en anden, mere positiv retning. Med O’Malleys præsidentskabskamp for Glass/Steagall, udenrigsminister Steinmeiers intervention i Washington imod krigspolitikken og Storbritanniens – af alle ting! – deltagelse i stiftelsen af AIIB viser, at de løsninger, som LaRouche og BüSo/Schiller Instituttet længe har foreslået, kan virkeliggøres.

The following article was published in the March 20, 2015 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. www.larouchepub.com/eiw

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China’s “Economic Belt along the Silk Road” and

“Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century.”

Speech by a Chinese diplomat.

This speech was held at the EIR and Schiller Institute’s diplomatic seminar in Copenhagen on January 30, 2015. The Russian Cultural Center was the venue for the seminar entitled, “Economic development, and cooperation among nations, or, economic collapse, war and terror? The New Silk Road Becomes the World Land Bridge.” Mrs. Helga Zepp-LaRouche held the keynote speech [see http://schillerinstitut.dk/si/?p=4818 ], and diplomats from two other BRICS countries, Mr. Alexey Kolesnikov from Russia, and Mr. Machiel Renier van Niekerk from South Africa [see EIR…], also gave speeches.

In 2013, President Xi Jinping of China called for joint development of an “Economic Belt along the Silk Road” and a “Maritime Silk Road of the 21st Century.” The “Belt” and the “Road” are two major initiatives that China has made to deepen reform, and open up and advance its neighborhood diplomacy. They have been written into the documents of the Third Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the Meeting on Neighborhood Diplomacy, and the Central Economic Work Conference, and have been enthusiastically received both at home and abroad.

1. The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives are the continuation and development of the spirit of the ancient Silk Road.

Over 2000 years ago, the industrious and brave people on the Eurasian continent opened several trade routes connecting major civilizations across Asia, Europe and Africa. Together, they are referred to as the “Silk Road” by succeeding generations. Despite repeated strife and wars in Eurasia, traffic on the Silk Road never completely stopped. Such links of mutual emulation via the Silk Road made exchanges of goods, know how, people and ideas possible, promoted the economic, cultural and social progress in the various countries, facilitated dialogue and integration of different civilizations, and left behind brilliant pages in human history.

Moving into the 21st century, an era that is dominated by the themes of peace, development and cooperation, but continues to feature a complex international and regional landscape, the Silk Road has become all the more important and precious as a symbol of peace, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness, mutual learning and resilience.

2. Working jointly for the “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives meets the trend of the times for regional cooperation.

Asia, known as the engine of global growth, and a key driver for world multi-polarization and economic globalization, plays a critical and increasing role in the shaping of the international landscape. Meanwhile, Asia faces multiple challenges, old and new, including mounting pressures to stay vibrant. The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives linking the past with the present, and covering China and other countries, have a highly inclusive scope that bears witness to the history of great glory in Asia, provide an important source from which Asians draw confidence and pride for their history and cultures, and stand as a banner of Asian unity and commitment to cooperation.

Regional integration is an unavoidable phase towards economic globalization. The flourishing cooperation in Asia has boosted peace and development in the region. The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives, by linking Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and West Asia, will contribute to greater connectivity and complementarity across the sub-regions, and help the establishment and improvement of Asia’s supply chain, industrial chain and value chain, thus bringing Pan-Asian and Eurasian regional cooperation to a new level.

The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives foresee infrastructure development and systemic innovation, which is conducive to an improved business environment in relevant countries and the region as a whole, to an orderly and unimpeded flow of production factors and their improved distribution, to the development of landlocked countries and the remote areas of various countries, to lowering costs and trade and investment barriers, and to providing greater drive for reform and opening-up in the various countries.

3. The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives are for open and inclusive economic cooperation.

Both the “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives have been anchored on economic cooperation, and built on cultural and people-to-people exchanges. They foresee no interference in the internal affairs of the countries involved, nor do they seek to dominate the regional affairs or secure spheres of influence in the region.

The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives look at ideas and suggestions for cooperation and development. They are not about building an entity or creating new mechanisms. The initiatives will rely on existing bilateral and multilateral mechanisms between China and other countries, and use existing platforms of regional cooperation that have proven effective. They will not overlap or compete with existing cooperation mechanisms of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Community or ASEAN plus China. If anything, they will enrich and enliven those mechanisms. We should open our mind and heart for the various cooperation initiatives and mechanisms, take a more pragmatic approach, and make them more effective and mutually reinforcing.

The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives foresee complete openness in geographical and country-specific reference. They may trace, but not be limited, to the past Silk Road, and all countries along the land and the maritime Silk Roads, as well as all friendly neighbors of China, can get involved. Central Asia, Russia, South Asia and Southeast Asia will be the priority direction. So will the Middle East and East Africa, since they are where the Belt and Road join. Countries in Europe, CIS and Africa may also be included in the long run. What is more, the initiatives, as they make progress in the future, may involve a lot more projects, countries or entities, which can only ensure their increasing openness.

4. The “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives feature “links” and focus on result-oriented and project-based cooperation, all aimed at bringing tangible benefits to the people in the region.

The first of the “five links” is policy. Countries can discuss strategies and policies on economic development and in the spirit of seeking common ground while shelving differences, harmonizing their positions through consultation, formulate corresponding plans and measures for cooperation, and give regional economic integration their policy and legal “green light”.

The second Link is road. We have a saying in China that goes “if you want to get rich, start by building roads.” There is need for China and its neighboring countries to improve their cross-border transportation infrastructure, put in place a transportation network linking Asia’s sub-regions and connecting Asia with Europe and Africa, and effectively address the existing inadequacies of connectivity and transportation in regions targeted by the project.

The third Link is trade. We should study issues of trade and investment facilitation while making proper arrangements accordingly, remove trade and investment barriers, promote economic circulation and improvement in the region, unleash still greater trade and investment potential of participating countries and make the regional cooperation “pie” still bigger.

The fourth Link is currency. We should promote greater trade settlement in local currencies and more currency swap schemes, strengthen bilateral and multilateral financial cooperation, set up financial arms for regional development, bring down transaction costs, enhance capacity to fend off financial risks through regional arrangements that make the region’s economy more competitive globally.

The fifth Link is people. Amity between peoples holds the key to sound relations between states. China and the neighboring countries need to shore up popular support for their state-to-state relations, promote inter-civilization dialogue, enhance exchanges, understanding and friendship among different peoples, especially those at the grassroots level.

Throughout this process, China will follow the right approach of upholding justice first and pursuing justice and interests simultaneously, providing developing countries and friendly neighbors with assistance as their abilities permit, and earnestly help them to achieve speedier growth. China will step up its input in the neighborhood, actively enhance connectivity there, explore the establishment of a regional infrastructure investment and financing platform, and strive to turn the neighboring land and sea areas into those of peace, friendship and harmony. Not only will China upgrade its own economy, it will go for an upgraded version of opening-up through such schemes as the “Belt” and the “Road” initiatives, and expand its mutually-beneficial cooperation with all countries, neighboring countries in particular.

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