As the Old Order Crumbles, History is Being Made in the South. Will We Change Policy?
A historic transformation is unfolding across the world. This week, two major international gatherings—the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia—brought together nations representing much of the world to discuss mutually beneficial cooperation and economic development as a path beyond centuries of imperialism, exploitation, and looting.
While these developments may be lost by today’s trans-Atlantic “analysts,” they were certainly not ignored by the panelists of yesterday’s EIR roundtable dialogue, titled “An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas,” which took place at the end of the two major summits. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder of the Schiller Institute, began the roundtable discussion in the context of the two concluded summits, saying “The just-concluded summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, reflects the fact that a new world economic order is being built. There were 10 member states and 15 observer nations representing 42% of the world population, about one quarter of the GDP of the world and the territory of the planet, who declared their intent to build a system based on common development. This was followed by a highly successful East Economic Forum in Vladivostok with the participation of 7,000 representatives of over 70 countries, all determined to build up their nations into modern industrial states.”
Among the many topics of the EIR roundtable dialogue was the alternative policy the U.S. could take with China in Ibero-America, epitomized by the recent completion of the Chancay Port built in Peru by Chinese engineers, along with the subsequent project of building a bi-oceanic corridor which would link Brazil’s Atlantic coast port of Ilheus with that of Peru’s Chancay in the Pacific.
Contrary to Henry Kissinger’s racist premise that history cannot be made in the South, the Global Majority is actually taking that leadership, regardless of whatever imperfections that may have. American economist Lyndon LaRouche, an avowed enemy of Kissinger and everything he represented, had made the advanced economic development of the Global South the keystone of his economic policy. LaRouche’s policy outlook is one to be adopted today, in order to avoid the impending doom of the current U.S. foreign policy outlook, which has completely failed in regards to Iran and Ukraine.
The lack of rational leadership in the U.S. and Europe, if not immediately corrected, will result in a global financial collapse and thermonuclear warfare. The world still hangs by a thread, but there is another trend emerging, which we can grasp if we act to supplant the irrationality of our current governments.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche concluded her keynote speech of the EIR roundtable discussion, saying “As the old colonial order is crumbling, which was based on dominance and suppression, a new order is being built, based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence, the UN Charter, and the idea that all nations have an equal right for development. With it crumbles the barbaric, typically brutish conception of Winston Churchill, that countries don’t have friendships but only interests. The new paradigm will be based on true friendship among nations and respect for their unique contribution to the universal history of mankind. After all, we are the only creative species in the universe known so far.
“If the nations of Ibero-America can unite for their own development, bringing together those countries who would otherwise be involved in a geopolitical confrontation, they can be the initiators of a new era of mankind, where the barbaric idea that conflicts will be resolved by war can be put aside forever!”
Will we choose success over failure?