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    Russia, India, China Forming Strategic Geopolitical Alliance

    Russia, India and China Forming Strategic Geopolitical Alliance

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    Nov 21, 2010 - 08:50 AM

    Russia, India and China are pursuing common goals in their international policies and economic development.

    In what is the latest step to promote trilateral cooperation in a variety of fields, the foreign ministers of China, Russia and India met for two days last week in Wuhan, capital of central Hubei province. Tenth of its kind, the meeting was shown as being conducive to deepening trilateral ties between Beijing, Moscow and New Delhi.

    Due to the increasing influence of these three countries in regional and world affairs, cooperation opens up opportunities for increased development.

    These three members of what has been called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), cover an entire 40 percent of the world population, with a combined GDP of more than 15 percent of the world total. The three also enjoy a particularly advantageous geopolitical position, along with an abundance of labor, natural resources and scientific and technological advantages. The geographic location of the three countries also facilitates the deepening of triangular trade.

    The three are emerging economies, locked into raising their international status, while they share many views on international issues. The three countries also call for reforms to the current world order. They also face common pressing tasks, such as the fight against religious extremism, ethnic separatism and international terrorism. For all, economic and trade cooperation is an important platform for their trilateral strategic partnership to take root.

    The concept of a "strategic triangle" was the brainchild of former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov, who first used the term in 1998 during a visit to India. Although the approach generated little enthusiasm at the time, China, Russia and India have begun to recognize the importance of enhancing their triangular ties to safeguard their interests at the turn of the century, especially after the wars launched by the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    In that vein, the three countries held discussions with contacts by senior officials in September 2001, after which the foreign ministers held their first "informal meeting" in the Russian port city of Vladivostok in June 2006. At that time, they published a joint statement that emphasized the advantages of developing trilateral cooperation in specific fields as a way to make substantial contributions to peace and stability in Asia and the world. Heads of state of the three countries met in parallel with the meetings of the G8 summit in July 2006.

    China, Russia and India have a common strategic need to strengthen their ties. In today's world where international relations are undergoing profound changes and multi-polarization continues to accelerate, the three nations are on similar positions in a multitude of international issues. All advocate the democratization of international relations and the establishment of a new international order based on universally recognized international laws.

    By Yu Jincheng (Xinhua)

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    Russia Flexes Its Muscles, War for Caspian Sea Inevitable?

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    Nov 21, 2010 - 08:46 AM

    The countries of the Caspian region are trying to find a solution to a long-standing dispute about the Caspian Sea. There is something to argue about indeed: sturgeons, crude and natural gas deposits, as well as the transportation of oil and gas. The leaders of Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan gathered in Baku (the capital of Azerbaijan) to discuss the problem in detail.



    The legal status of the Caspian Sea has not been solved yet. Consequently, not all Caspian states could settle the question about sea borders. Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan seem to have agreed on the issue, but the state of affairs in the southern part of the Caspian Sea is still unstable.

    Iran's position is the main problem here. This country claims its rights for one-fifth part of the sea, which is unacceptable for all other Caspian states.

    Similar problems exist in the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, as well as between Azerbaijan and Iran. These countries still argue about the borders of their sectors of the sea.

    The Caspian dispute has triggered the militarization of the Caspian Sea. Turkmenistan's President Gurbangully Berdymuhammedov approved the establishment of the Navy of Turkmenistan. The country only had patrol boats before, and it was obvious that Turkmenistan was too weak to compete against the navy of Azerbaijan, which has the second largest navy in the region (following Russia).

    "The Caspian Sea is not just a pool, as many people call it. The sea is very rich with oil and gas reserves. A special agreement, signed by the Caspian states, divides the sea into several zones, but some members of the agreement still argue about its terms. It seems that there is no peaceful solution to the problem, so the navy will play an important role at this point. One should also take account of the destructive influence of the West, the USA, first and foremost, as they attempt to destabilize the situation in the region," the expert said.

    "Andrey Grozin, a senior expert with the Institute for CIS and Baltic States, believes that any country, including Turkmenistan, wants to defend its interests.

    "The dispute between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan is one of the key ones. They fight for the right to develop three large oil fields. Azerbaijan already develops two of the three disputed fields, which Turkmenistan considers its own. Western partners hoped that it would be possible to change the situation for the better after Turkmenistan had a new leader, but the problem still remains unsolved," the expert said.

    Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan realize their importance to the West as fuel suppliers and they compete with each other. Turkmenistan understands that Nabucco will not happen without Turkmen gas. The resources of Azerbaijan play an important role in the work of the trans-Caspian gas pipeline. Azerbaijan is much more important when it comes to the transit of Central Asian gas to Europe.

    It is an open secret that neither Iran nor Russia were considered as partners for Nabucco project. As for Russia, Nabucco was designed to eliminate Russia's influence in the transportation of natural gas to Europe.

    Sergey Balmasov

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    Buy yall love Piyush Jindal and Nikki Haley?

    Well hey, you guys are the ones that want Nikki Mahatma Halley in S.C. and now the same way the International bankers wrote a book for Obama 2 years before the Presidential Elections of 2008, they have now written one of their scripted La. pawn Piyush Jindal-so Americans get what they get. Americans are fooled and can not see the agenda.

    India, China and Russia along with Iran are for sure going to be super powers and Obama's job is to bring us down a few notches to allow this to happen but Americans appear to have no problem when these East Indian Politicians in the Republican camp pop from thin air like Obama on the Democratic side. Same script just a different cast

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