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Business is very simple -- benefits must be proportionate to all parties involved
by jess Thursday, Jan 28 2016, 10:04pm
international / prose / post

Today there exist two major competing interests in global business affairs, the Anglo-Zionist mercantile model, which is maintained and propelled by the military/police and the Eurasian model which needs no such costly enforcement as everybody wins.

China’s current leader is expanding his nation’s influence throughout the world as easy as the flow of a mighty river, contrast this with the current Anglo-Zionist model of perpetual war!

It is abundantly clear the now failed military-imperial model of the Anglo-Zionists is DOOMED, make no mistake, as is plain to see; however, Asia’s centuries old sensitive understanding that benefits MUST go to all parties, which ensures prosperity and continuing benefits, are now becoming increasingly dominant.

Chinese traders learned many thousands of years ago that enduring business relations must be voluntary and mutually beneficial, history verifies this approach as the oldest trade routes in history emanate from and to China/Asia. History also records that few conflicts arose from this voluntary trade, most wars were either forced, the Mongolian famine for example, or were the result of short-lived perverse leaders seeking territorial gains for reasons of glorification.

The feudal serf-based western system relied on terror and slavery while western elites, like the pigs they are, wanted it all, a sure formula for failure, as is occurring again today in the west. However, Asian traders know better and continue in the long tradition of Asian trade and business now joined by Russia and many other enlightened nations that stand to benefit from mutual PEACEFUL trade. Indeed, not one shot has been fired by China on any external nation while is breezes past the west in successful business strategies and deals, now contrast this with American perpetual war/ force and theft and note how this now failed model is killing the USA and its client States. Western nations seem to be very hard learners indeed.

Take for example the crusades, which western history depicts as a war to liberate the ‘holy land’ from the ‘heathens,’ nothing could be further from the truth. The bankrupt -- from centuries of internal warfare -- kings of Europe drooled over the gold and stupendous wealth of Constantinople, an Asian trading hub for centuries. And so true to form, European elites banded together to form a mercenary force to plunder the East, however, they wrapped that criminal enterprise in a religious cloak and so mobilised all of Europe to fight the ‘heathens’ while the elite had there eye on the ‘gold, jewels and other precious commodities, which they finally stole and Constantinople was sacked after many years of ferocious warfare, which resulted soon after the sacking, in (Syrian) Saladin regaining his homelands. Also, important to note is that the western elite put their military mercenary leaders (Templars) to death for their services and appropriated the remaining stolen wealth from the East, which of course they blew again on useless warfare amongst themselves -- it seems we are looking at a definite cultural pathology in the west.

Not a lot has changed today, the fabricated and orchestrated war on ‘terror’ replaces the theological propaganda of the middle ages but the eye of western elites is always on the wealth, which today is black liquid gold, which both Asia and the West require. But what are the proven most successful means of obtaining precious resources? Mutually beneficial peaceful trade of course, as history is recording as I write.

Story from Pepe Escobar on today's conflict follows, though he takes a somewhat different view of the situation:

Silk Dragon Takes Persian Road

He came, he saw, and he pocketed all the deals that matter. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tour of Southwest Asia – Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt – could easily be sold anywhere as your typical Chinese-style win-win.

On the PR arena, Xi did a sterling job polishing China’s image as a global power. Beijing scored diplomatically on all counts, obtaining several more layers of energy security (over half of China’s oil come from the Persian Gulf) while expanding its export markets and trade relations overall.

In Iran, Xi oversaw the signing of 17 politico-economic agreements alongside Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. Yet another diplomatic coup: Xi was the second leader of a UN Security Council member country to visit Tehran after the nuclear deal struck in Vienna last summer; the first was President Putin, in November. Note the crucial Russia-China-Iran interaction.

To make it absolutely clear, Xi issued a statement just before arriving in Tehran, confirming Beijing’s support for Iran to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). That will solidify for good the key strategic partnership trio working for future Eurasia integration.

Of course, this whole process revolves around One Belt, One Road – the official Chinese denomination of the larger-than-life New Silk Road vision. No other nucleus, apart from Russia-China, offers so much potential in terms of bilateral cooperation; Iran, as much as during the ancient Silk Road uniting imperial China and imperial Persia, is the ultimate hub uniting Asia with Europe.

Xi’s high-tech caravan stopped first in Saudi Arabia and Egypt – the Arab world. Xi’s message could not be more crystal-clear: “Instead of looking for a proxy in the Middle East, we promote peace talks; instead of seeking any sphere of influence, we call on all parties to join the circle of friends for the Belt and Road initiative”.

As Xi was still in Arab land, Beijing officially issued an “Arab policy paper”; a first, tracing the history of China-Arab world interaction from the ancient Silk Road up to the founding of the Sino-Arab State Cooperation Forum in 2004. And even before addressing the – fractured – Arab League in Cairo, Xi emphasized it once again; what matters for China is «win-win» cooperation all around.

Translation: business, business, business. And no Chinese interference in fractured Middle East politics.

Xi’s diplomatic offensive, a spin-off of One Belt, One Road, seeks no less than reconfigure the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) – for which China is a global champion – in the context of emerging new financial architecture, centered on the globalization of the yuan.

That includes the push for the yuan to become one of the world’s reserve currencies; and mechanisms such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Silk Road Fund, much more attuned to the needs of the developing world than the IMF, the World Bank and even the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

A win-win for China as far as the Arab Middle East is concerned implies the pricing of key commodities in yuan – a long-term but essentially inevitable development. And Beijing is eyeing not only Saudi Arabia but the whole GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) – which happens to be a de facto financial centre for Africa, where China has a massive presence, with Eastern Africa on top of it being linked to the Maritime Silk Road.

The boom, and its drawbacks

Post-sanctions Iran, already in overdrive, is all about (re)integration into large swathes of the global economy. Yet China was already in Iran even before the lifting of sanctions.

Iran wants to increase its petrochemical output, by 2025, to 180 million tons. Chinese investment will be key. According to a recent report by global energy, metals, and mining research and consultancy Scottish group Wood Mackenzie, Iran may attract as much as $70 billion for its petrochemical projects.

On the alternative energy front, Iran has the capacity to generate 40,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity from solar and wind resources. Chinese companies will definitely be on it.

As an NPT member state, Iran will continue to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Chinese companies are already a player in the redesigning of the Arak heavy water reactor, and will be involved in producing isotopes for medical purposes and desalinating seawater.

Investment in mining is also a certainty. According to the World Mining Congress (WMC), China and Iran were the 1st and 10th largest minerals producers in the world in 2013. Iran holds more than 7% of the world’s proven mineral reserves, but only 20% of these have been developed. Foreigners are now allowed to operate Iranian mines for 25 years – and China will be on it.

One Belt, One Road is mostly about high-speed rail. So no wonder upgrading and expanding Iran’s railway network is a key plank in the Joint Statement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Iran and China.

Of course progress along the New Silk Road(s) will face numerous pitfalls.

No one yet knows the full details about the Iran-China strategic partnership; Tehran won’t be content with being just a transit route for China’s exports; it aims at being a key trans-Eurasian partner. China is a WTO member; Iran is not a full member yet. China is at the center of multiple trade agreements while Iran is a partner in only a few.

Cooperation with the Central Asian «stans» may be quite a feat – as some, like Uzbekistan, are quite jealous of their economic practices. And a multi-vector, complex relationship between Tehran and Ankara is still a work in progress; Turkey after all physically connects Asia to Europe.

A geostrategic master class

Geopolitically, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei unambiguously set the tone as he met Xi. China, said the Supreme Leader, is a “trustworthy” country; the establishment of a “25-year strategic relation is completely correct and wise; and last but not least, …The Islamic Republic of Iran will never forget China’s cooperation during the time of sanctions”.

Subtle but firm, Ayatollah Khamenei could not but refer to the stark difference between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the absolutely crucial – for China – area of energy security: “Iran is the only independent country in the region that can be trusted in the area of energy because unlike many regional countries, the energy policy of Iran is not influenced by any non-Iranian factor”.

The bottom line is that for Beijing, a strategic partnership with Iran is a matter of vital national security. Moreover, geostrategically, Beijing sees Iran as an essential hub, in Southwest Asia and Eurasia for that matter, counterpunching Washington’s much-advertised “pivot” and US naval hegemony. That implies Beijing’s full support for a powerful Iran in the arc spanning the Persian Gulf to the Caspian; all these maritime and land routes – New Silk Road-wise – are vitally important to China.

There is no fulfillment of the New Silk Road vision without a comprehensive Iran-China strategic partnership. Xi and the Beijing leadership not only solidified it; in a sweeping move, they sort of upgraded what some Iranian analysts define as Khamenei’s «defensive realism» theory of international relations to a de facto protection ring of China’s geostrategic interests.

A master class. And it’s all going according to (Beijing’s) plan. Next step is Iran as a full SCO member. Eurasian integration, here we come.

[Meanwhile, the west's costly perpetual war strategy is self-defeating as worthless paper money has been over produced to fund these failed wars and now threatens to implode the western economy. Surely, today's western serf populations are able to see the plain truth and who will succeed in the end, notwithstanding the fact that the west is unravelling as I write? And for the simpleminded, the violent, destructive, criminal western Anglo-Zionist model is kaput!]
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