Aaron
Maté of the Real
News spoke with Junaid Ahmad, Director of Center
for Global Dialogue and Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the
University of Lahore, about the latest Trump turn against Pakistan.
Ahmad
explains:
What
has changed today, is that there's been a strengthening of the
relationship, a deepening of the ties, between China and Pakistan.
And of course, much of this has been in response to the way the US
has strengthened its own ties with India and downgraded its
relationship with Pakistan.
What
Pakistan has done in turn is increase the relationship that it's had
for a very, very long time with China. And that relationship is very
strong right now. It's taking the shape of both geostrategic and
military, as well as economic cooperation in the form of what's known
as CPEC, the Chinese-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which is part of the
larger Chinese initiative known as The Belt and Road Initiative of
Eurasian integration, of interconnectivity. So, these developments
are taking place. There's the rise of China in the region. There's of
course, growing Russian independence.
What
we see here is actually a US effort to break the BRICS bloc, by
trying to divide geostrategically the region. Through this turn
against Pakistan, Trump is trying to "lure" the weaker link
of the BRICS Asian branch: India.
India
appears to be a power that keeps some distance from the - currently
solid - Sino-Russian alliance. It seems that India tries to balance
between its BRICS partners and the West with which has deep economic
interests.
The
recent Trump turn against Pakistan could be explained by an effort of
the US to bring India closer to the Western bloc, as the highly
problematic relationship between India and Pakistan does not seem to
be improving.
Previously,
Washington attempted to distant Brazil from BRICS, by installing its
puppet in power, after overthrowing Dilma Rousseff through a
constitutional coup.
The
US imperialism has a long history of endless intervention in the US
backyard - Latin America. Apart from the Leftist governments that
refuse to implement the neoliberal policies in favor of plutocracy
and against the majority, the Washington neocons have an additional
serious reason to target Brazil and overthrow Rousseff, due to her
initiatives for Brazil's continuous and "dangerous"
approach with the Sino-Russian bloc, mainly through the BRICS.
This
is a reason which probably explains why Rousseff is being targeted.
Apparently she came very close to Russia and China, the key countries
who try to form rapidly an independent bloc, especially in the
economic sector, to offer an alternative against the Western
neoliberal monopoly.
In
May 2016, WikiLeaks
revealed
Brazil's new coup president is 'US informant'.
WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel
Temer as a “U.S. Embassy informant” in a tweet and provided two
links where Temer's candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as
the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil. The cable from
Jan. 11, 2006, states that Temer met with embassy officials on Jan.
9, 2006 to give his assessment of Brazil's political landscape ahead
of the 2006 general election that saw Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
reelected to the presidency.
What do you expect to be the impact of CPEC in regard to Pakistan's growing independence from the US, and its economic capabilities and relations?
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