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Pepe Escobar is a prolific propagandist for BRICS counter-hegemony. In this article that appears on tomdispatch.com, a website that generally eschews geopolitical chess games discourse, he describes China's role in consummating a new hegemony based on Russian energy and Chinese cash. What this has to do with social justice or rational economic development is anybody's guess. In this most revealing paragraph, he implicitly gives his approval to China's oppression of the Uighur minority:
The central node of China’s elaborate planning for the Eurasian future is Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province and the site of the largest commercial fair in Central Asia, the China-Eurasia Fair. Since 2000, one of Beijing’s top priorities has been to urbanize that largely desert but oil-rich province and industrialize it, whatever it takes. And what it takes, as Beijing sees it, is the hardcore Sinicization of the region -- with its corollary, the suppression of any possibility of ethnic Uighur dissent. People’s Liberation Army General Li Yazhou has, in these terms, described Central Asia as “the most subtle slice of cake donated by the sky to modern China.”
full: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175903/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
