Measures to Establish New World Order to Oppose U.S. "Rules-Based" Order
- Pauline Easton - 
Peoples of the world
demand action at COP26 in Glasgow, November 5, 2021.
As 2021 came to an end, a matter of grave concern for the peoples of
the world has been the inability of the United Nations to exert
authority in matters of the relations between countries based on the
principles enshrined by the UN Charter. There is a lot of talk about
"strategic relations" and "strategic partnerships" and interpretations
of the kind of new world order the world requires. Everyone
is coming up with different formulations around strategic partnerships,
relations and strategy. According to some, the U.S. "rules-based
international order" is the basis for a "strategic paradigm" which
gives structure to "strategic thinking." Such thinking is different
than having a policy objective. For their part, statements by both
China and Russia on strategic partnership and that of the European
Union (EU) on "Strategic Autonomy" talk about strategy in relation to
some type of world order. The Chinese and Russians are saying it is a
"new era," but how that is defined is as yet not clear. China-Russia
Strategic Partnership While the U.S. and
countries such as Canada talk nonstop about establishing a "rules-based
international order," where the U.S. sets the rules and decides who is
and who is not breaking them, a significant development in 2021 was the
announcement by China and Russia that they have extended the
China-Russia Friendship Treaty which upholds the international rule of
law as it is enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.[1]
The current five-year pact is a continuation of the 20-year
friendship treaty they signed in 2001. The Treaty outlines their notion
of "strategic partnership" which they say is based on the UN Charter
and international law. As one report put it, their friendship is to
"develop a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a
new era in a bid to take bilateral ties to a higher level and better
benefit the peoples of the two countries and the world as well."[2]
They say they are developing relations that are going to be
neither a military nor an economic bloc against anyone else, but rather
focus on a "strategy of a new type." The Treaty and agreements are not
in the form of them being allies, in the sense of military or political
allies such as were established previously during the Cold War. The
Treaty and its extension are going beyond this old way of having
relationships, they say. The relations are also very different from
what the U.S. is promoting under its "rules-based international order"
in which everyone is to submit to the U.S. as the indispensable leader.
Chinese
President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin jointly
announced the extension of the China-Russia Treaty of
Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation,
June 28, 2021.
European Strategic Autonomy For its
part, the EU has been pursuing what it calls "European
Strategic Autonomy." At a time China and Russia are addressing
developments for Eurasia, the EU does not want to be left out. At the
same time, the autonomy that the EU is referring to is not that of
Germany or France, but of the EU which then raises the problem of the
existence of NATO and its relationship with many of the European
countries. The conception does nonetheless attempt to provide a
rationalization for the EU having their own defence force within the
ambit of the proposal to establish a "Global Concert of Powers," some
forces in the U.S. are promoting. This Global Concert of Powers
includes the EU -- not Germany or France -- along with Russia, China,
India and Japan.[3][4]
There is concern expressed by the U.S. about the continuing and
developing partnership between China and Russia in a manner which does
not accord with its own conception of a tri-polar world -- a world as
advocated by former U.S. President Trump in which the U.S. was to play
Russia and China off of one another while it set the rules to which
everyone must submit. The promotion of the U.S. "rules-based
international order " notwithstanding, there is considerable confusion
and incoherence at all levels of the U.S. government in terms of
foreign policy. The Role of Secrecy What
is known is that their policy-making is based on secrecy. The claims
being made around cyber warfare and cyber attacks, for example, and
U.S. attributions of such to Russia or China, cannot be confirmed with
evidence. It is not possible to attribute specific attacks to, say,
China, given how readily the attacks can be made to appear to be coming
from a certain place or to be initiated by this or that specific force
when there is no evidence of this, as various examples have shown. The
U.S. repeatedly simply claims it "looks like" something Putin or the
Chinese would do; it "appears as if" it is done by them, and so forth.
There is no evidence to back up these claims. The
U.S. is trying to impose a norm for what is and is not cyber warfare by
providing their claims with a legality; as something valid in terms of
law. It is similar to what they did with nuclear weapons by claiming
the information to build a nuclear bomb was secret and then claiming
that there was espionage. When Russia and China
raise in their partnership agreement that it is a new era, they are
in part saying there has to be a different world order now. On the part
of the U.S., its determination to push the scenario for a major war now
is to prevent the loss of the existing world order in which the U.S.
dominates. Notes 1. China-Russia Friendship
Treaty, Article I: "In
accordance with universally recognized principles and norms of
international laws and on the basis of the Five Principles of mutual
respect of state sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual
non-aggression, mutual non-interference in each other's internal
affairs, equality and mutual benefit and peaceful co-existence, the
contracting parties shall develop the strategic cooperative partnership
of good-neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation and equality and
trust between the two countries from a long-term view and in a
comprehensive manner." For
the full text of the Treaty, click
here. 2. An
example of how relations for a new era are talked about is found in "China,
Russia agree to upgrade relations for new era," Xinhua, June 6, 2019.
3. "A
Crisis-Ridden Alliance Holds Crisis-Ridden Summit" by Pauline Easton, TML Monthly, June
11, 2021.
4. "U.S.
Imperialist Proposal to Resuscitate a 'Concert of Powers' to Further
U.S. Striving for Domination" by Kathleen Chandler, TML Monthly, June
11, 2021.
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 1 - January 9, 2022
Article Link:
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