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Geo-Economic – Swinging on the Pendulum

Geo-Economic Series include:
- The great transition that reshape the world orders
- Insight China - outline the competing status in the world economy
- Miscellaneous hot Geo-Economic events

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- No way Out link
- The Change will come from the External (Tuesday, 02/11/14 01:26:46 PM)
- The competition is merciless
- History was a series of causal chains interacting with each other - Edward Carr
- An across the entire Europe-Asia Continent Economic zone will be established

Cracks In Washington’s Empire
Paul Craig Roberts March 17, 2015 |
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/17/cracks-washingtons-empire-paul-craig-roberts/

Washington’s EU vassals might be finding their backbone. Britain, Germany, France, and Italy are reported to have defied Washington’s orders and applied to join the Chinese-led Asian Investment Bank.

The Chinese-led bank will, of course, be much more effective. The Chinese will use the bank to actually help countries and thereby make friends and grow trust, whereas Washington uses its banks for domination by force.

This new bank, together with the BRICS Bank, will provide countries with escape routes from Washington’s domination.

U.S. Allies, Lured by China’s Bank
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
on page A28 of the New York edition, MARCH 20, 2015

The Obama administration, to its embarrassment, has been spurned by Western allies flocking to a China-led Asian development bank, defying White House pleas to stand back

In significant ways, this is a problem of America’s own making.

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A bridge not far enough
The Economist Mar 21st 2015

America is wrong to obstruct China’s Asian-infrastructure bank

There are three reasons why America should be more receptive toward the AIIB and its allies’ potential membership.

The first is that Asia’s need for infrastructure is vast and pressing.

Second, the best way to deal with concerns about Chinese lending standards is to join the bank and improve it from inside, not to throw brickbats from outside.

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Building the world’s greatest market F. William Engdahl

Contrary to the dogma of Milton Friedman and his followers, markets are never “free.” They are always manmade. The essential element to build new markets is building infrastructure and for the vast landmass of Eurasia railroad linkages are essential to those new markets.

the vast under-developed land space of Eurasia became open again. This space contains some forty percent of total land in the world, much of it prime unspoiled agriculture land; it contains three-fourth of the entire world population, an asset of incalculable worth. It consists of some eighty eight of the world’s countries and three-fourths of known world energy resources as well as every mineral known needed for industrialization.

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Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, New Silk Roads and an Alternate Eurasian Century
Posted by Pepe Escoba
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In the meantime, think of China as a magnet for a new world order in a future Eurasian century.

In the endgame of such a process, the U.S. might find itself progressively squeezed out of Eurasia, with the BMB emerging as a game-changer. Place your bets soon. They’ll be called in by 2025.