The Eurasian Big Bang: How China and Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington

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According to the World Bank, Russian has just overtaken Germany as the world’s 4th largest economy.

Originally posted on Raging Bull-shit:

By Pepe Escobar and cross-posted from TomDispatch

Central Asia is, at the moment, geographic ground zero for the convergence of the economic urges of China, Russia, and India. And this matters profoundly.

Let’s start with the geopolitical Big Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here are its results: from now on, any possible future attack on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO) would essentially be an assault on the planning of an interlocking set of organizations — the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), the EEU (Eurasian Economic Union), the AIIB (the new Chinese-founded Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), and the NDB (the BRICS’ New Development Bank) — whose acronyms you’re unlikely to recognize either.  Still, they represent an emerging new order in Eurasia.

Tehran, Beijing, Moscow, Islamabad, and New Delhi have been actively…

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