China is profoundly transforming its face. What is happening, however, is very mysterious. Xi Ping recently affirmed during the People's Assembly that he is willing: "To defend his political line even at the cost of his life". A statement that has escaped international observers but which, to anyone who knows the Confucian liturgy of the Communist Party of China, makes the wrists tremble. It is the reflection of the bloody and profound struggle within the Party. Over the past year, Xi Ping has imprisoned, tortured and executed more than 400.000 cadres on charges of corruption and embezzlement. Among them great Warlords such as Bo Xi Liang, mayor of a small city of 30 million inhabitants, Zua Quokufeng, head of the secret services and deputy commander of the Party Military Commission, and many others of such high lineage.
Meanwhile, on an international level, China, from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean, opened territorial disputes, generally with respect to remote islands overlooking rich hydrocarbon deposits, with almost all its neighboring nations, from Japan to Vietnam to Thailand , South Korea, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, not counting India with which a decades-long territorial conflict continues. But at the same time, as Germany did on an infinitely smaller scale in Europe between the 1956th and XNUMXth centuries, China began to build a powerful network of alternative institutions to the dominant power of the world today, i.e. the USA. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, indeed, until XNUMX, with the Suez crisis, that dominant power was the United Kingdom, even if after the end of the Second World War its ruling groups had well understood that the time for world economic domination was played in favor of the USA. Today, China is building a network of alternative financial institutions to those dominated by the US and its European allies.
It began with the BRICS Bank which brings together Brazil, Russia, India and China and continued with the New Silk Road which unites in an infrastructural and financial project the countries which, from Mongolia to Afghanistan, up to Turkey constitute the heart of Eurasia, or rather of the Heartland, on the route that was taken by Alexander the Great, with which Xi Ping is often said to ideally join. In the face of these initiatives, the West has remained silent, sinking into its Germanic autism in Europe and its schizophrenic dissociation in the USA. Think of the madness of the American Congress in which the Republican majority challenges the unwitting poor Obama by inviting Netanyahu to speak without the President's assent, running the risk of having provoked an irreconcilable split between the President and Congress by backing a hysterical little man who will perhaps be defeated in the elections next Tuesday in Israel, not so much and not only because it is outvoted by the new Labor party allied with the Centre, but above all because it is contested by the so-called Pensioners' Party, made up of Mossad cadres and senior army ranks. A true masterpiece, no doubt about it. Disorder is becoming chaos.
In this chaos, China has yet another result. Created in October 2013 the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank which sets itself the mission of creating infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region in direct competition with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, the latter based in Manila . As is known, these three institutions are dominated by the USA and Japan, together with a secondary but important role for Europeans. In a 2010 report, the Asian Development Bank argued that at least eight trillion dollars should have been invested between 2010 and 2020 to build the complex of infrastructure necessary for the development of the Euro-Asian area. Up to now, nothing has been done and this is why the new institution, promoted by China, in the period from 2013 to 2014, increased its capital from 50 billion to 100 billion with the decisive intervention of India in the co-founding of the same bank.
Briefly, in 2014 an installation ceremony of the Bank was held in Beijing in which, in addition to China and India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, the Laos, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Mongolia. Also significant are the signatures of Kuwait, Oman and Qatar to which were added in 2015 also those of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as Tajikistan, and finally Vietnam. Finally, in 2015, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and England also joined the Bank. Well, here a big problem arises, or rather, it manifests itself publicly. Vietnam also adheres to the Tran-Pacific Act which the United States, as is known, signed in an anti-Chinese function with the Asian and South American countries bordering the Pacific, and excluding China from it, with a clear act of intimidation and political challenge, military and diplomatic. Well Vietnam, in this way, affirms a policy of the two ovens following the more than secular Thai example of multiple alliances with variable geometry aimed at guaranteeing its independence.
New Zealand has also joined, which increasingly aspires to a differentiated policy with respect to Australia, which not by chance, in the context of the Trans-Pacific Act, has signed a military agreement with the United States in an anti-Chinese and openly pro-Japanese function. But the bombshell news is that of England joining. Cameron and Osborne, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, were clear as indeed "The Telegraph" had announced, right from the start, asserting that the United Kingdom, in the first place, has its national interests as its target. That is the question. A problem that had its implications in the context of NATO in which the United Kingdom decreased its investments in armaments bringing them below the ceiling of 2%, especially in conventional weapons, while instead, on the other hand, it increased its defensive expenditure on the front nuclear missiles, on land, in the sky, at sea.
In short, the United Kingdom is increasingly moving away from Europe. Instead, he looks increasingly to the world and above all to Asia and, with a more uncertain attitude, to Africa. This is why the assessments of some sick observers who maintain that the United Kingdom is increasingly isolating itself are wrong. It is increasingly isolating itself from the deflationary, Germanic-Teutonic, anti-Russian Europe. It is the posthumous triumph of Thatcher, who was forced to resign from her own party because she didn't believe in the one-euro hunk built in the image of the Deutsche Mark. Naturally, this British decision will have devastating consequences in Europe, because France alone does not dare to oppose Germany and Southern Europe is deeply infected with Blairist and neoliberal ideology which is nothing but the other side of the ordo- German liberalismus. The United Kingdom leaves Europe to return to being an intra-continental world power. To do this, he chooses to ally with China in a long-term perspective, thus widening the gap that increasingly divides him from the USA since the Suez crisis of 56.
The latter reacted convulsively to the United Kingdom's decision to join the AIIB, as if they were nervous, annoyed and lacking in strategic foresight. In any case, there is no doubt that the wound is deep, and the hegemonic incapacity of the USA on this occasion appeared in a clear and dramatic way. All the political families of the USA are in the grip of chaos and the division between the USA and the UK can only strengthen China and, in fact, Russia too, with unexpected consequences also in the Mediterranean. Remember, in fact, that countries such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar have joined the new Bank! A clear declaration of diplomatic war on the US engaged in nuclear talks with Iran. Lastly, I cannot fail to mention that this division between the USA and the UK cannot fail to have dramatic consequences also in Italy, a country with limited sovereignty and towards which the United Kingdom had been delegated by the USA to deal with its governmental outcomes and beyond, as it had been made clear by the not distant private visit (sic!) of Queen Elizabeth and her consort to the then President Giorgio Napolitano. Unique case in the world of a private visit by a monarch to a President of the Republic.
If Netanyahu is also defeated, even Israeli influence on Italian politics will inevitably undergo heavy modifications. I will be told that these are details with respect to world chaos. But to these detractors I reply that with ISIS at the gates, Italy's fate is the fate of one of the fundamental planets that light up the sky of world humanistic civilization.
