Friday 11 September 2009


A POSITIVE ROLE FOR SINO-WESTERN SYNERGY

David Gosset

Asia Times, September 11, 2009

One can describe the Eurasian dynamics in the form of a syllogism: instability in Central and South Asia is a serious threat for the global village; the direct and permanent stabilizing force at the heart of Eurasia is China; therefore, Sino-Western synergy is the long-term solution to Inner Asia's problems.

Halford John Mackinder (1861-1947) in the seminal Democratic Ideals and Reality (1919) sought to see in maps "not merely the conventional boundaries established by scraps of paper, but permanent physical opportunities". China's Xinjiang is certainly about "permanent physical opportunities" and a geopolitical variable of the highest importance. For Western strategists, it is urgent to rediscover Xinjiang's central position and to realize without preconception or prejudice how its current dynamics are creating a new configuration in Central and South Asia.

(...) [artículo aquí]

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