The ties that bind China, Russia and Iran (new geostrategic alliances)

[rodeodance]

unintended consequences!!!!!!


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GF04Ad07.html

> June 4, 2005 Asia Times
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> The ties that bind China, Russia and Iran
> By Jephraim P Gundzik
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> The military implementation of the George W Bush administration's unilateralist foreign policy is creating monumental changes in the world's geostrategic alliances. The most significant of these changes is the formation of a new triangle comprised of China, Iran and Russia.
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> Growing ties between Moscow and Beijing in the past 18 months is an important geopolitical event that has gone practically unnoticed. China's premier, Wen Jiabao, visited Russia in September 2004. In October 2004, President Vladimir Putin visited China. During the October meeting, both China and Russia declared that Sino-Russian relations had reached "unparalleled heights". In addition to settling long-standing border issues, Moscow and Beijing agreed to hold joint military exercises in 2005. This marks the first large-scale military exercises between Russia and China since 1958.
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> The joint military exercises complement a rapidly growing arms trade between Moscow and Beijing. China is Russia's largest buyer of military equipment. In 2004, China was reported to have signed deals worth more than $2 billion for Russian arms. These included naval ships and submarines, missile systems and aircraft. According to the head of Russia's armed forces, Anatoliy Kvashnin, "our defense industrial complex is working for this country , supplying the latest models of arms and military equipment, which the Russian army does not have". Russia's relations with China are not limited to military trade. In the past five years, non-military trade between Russia and China has increased at an average annual rate of nearly 20%. Moscow and Beijing have targeted non-military trade to reach $60 billion by 2010, from $20 billion in 2004. One of the key components of commercial trade is Russian energy exports to China.
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> In early 2005, Moscow agreed to more than double electricity exports to China, to 800 million kilowatt hours (kWh), by 2006. Officials at Russia's electricity monopoly, Unified Energy Systems, are also courting Chinese investment in the development and renovation of Russia's electricity system. In October 2004, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Russia's Gazprom signed a series of agreements intended to study how Russia can best supply natural gas to China. At the same time, Russia signed specific agreements with China on oil exports........

[whistle]

1. It is now time to sum up George Bush's foreign policy......

...."oh shit!"

[KlatooBNikto]

2. As India and Brazil join this alliance,it is going to be formidable.I am

sure that Venezuela and Mexico will also join in.When the Saudi regime topples,you can be certain that whoever gains control of that oil is not going to be very friendly to the U.S. Only perpetual wars will make it possible for us to get our energy supplies.

This is another reason why Bush is going to the Caspian basin and is making friendly noises about Africa.He wants to offset the possible loss of oil from Latin America, the Soviet Union and even possibly Saudi Arabia.The seizure of Iraq may be part of that calculation.

[catmandu57]

3. The world is realigning

and mostly to counteract the fucking loonies who have stolen our government. China is rapidly growing in world stature, they have made strategic alliances world wide to insure their ascension. They have Iran, and Venezuela to supply energy needs, while those two countries have covered themselves from w* and company from getting froggy on them.
We live in interesting times, China and Russia will do through economic means what they couldn't do through ideologic means, they will beat us at our own game.