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Zepp-LaRouche: `Amid Promising Strategic Changes, European Politicians Remain Blinded by Geopolitics’
12 February 2017
EIRNS—In a Feb. 11 article with the above headline written for the German weekly Neue Solidarität, Helga Zepp-LaRouche reviews the fundamental shifts currently underway and how Germany can help to shape them positively. Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche heads the German political party Civil Rights Movement Solidarity, or BüSo for short. Here are her opening paragraphs: "Among the great powers — United States, China, Russia, Japan — totally new alliances based on mutual advantage are being built, which will potentially establish a higher level of reason and can effectively usher in a new era in history. In Europe, however, it has not yet been noticed by either the neocons and neoliberals or most of the left-wing and certainly not by the Greens, who are all so busy hyperventilating in various ways against Trump’s victory, that they are numb to the major changes occurring on the political world stage. "Even such apparently staunch Atlanticists as Finance Minister Schäuble, faced with the new President of the United States, suddenly see hope in China’s role — an almost delightful irony. The followers of the geopolitical doctrine in Europe are in a frenzy. They don’t understand the world anymore. The Pippi Longstocking principle — ’two times three is four plus three make nine! I make the world the way I like it’ — no longer works. The shock caused by the failure of the axioms of unipolar geopolitics is somewhat comparable to the superseding of the Copernican heliocentric conception of the world by Johannes Kepler’s idea of a harmonic and complex universe. "After Trump’s letter to Xi Jinping, followed by a further telephone conversation, which was described by the White House as ’lengthy’ and ’extremely cordial’ and during which Trump supported the One China policy of the U.S., the perspective for constructive cooperation between the US and China is developing. Indeed, with the Trump Administration, there is a chance that the U.S. will accept China’s offer of a ’new type of power relations,’ which was deliberately ignored by Obama. This new model of relations is based on the absolute recognition of sovereignty, respect for different social and political systems, non-interference in internal affairs of others and mutually beneficial cooperation. So there should be no contradiction between Trump’s ’America First’ and Xi Jinping’s ’Chinese dream.’ "The visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the U.S., who brought with him, among other items, an investment package that would create 700,000 jobs in the infrastructure sector, need not conflict in any way with the improved U.S.-China relations. Abe spoke of Japan’s international expertise in building modern infrastructure and offered to build a maglev line between Washington and New York, which would allow President Trump to go from the White House to the Trump Tower in Manhattan in only one hour. "When a Japanese reporter’s question implied that Trump would not defend Japan from ’Chinese aggression,’ Trump’s reply demonstrated that he would not be lured into the geopolitical trap: ’I had a very, very good conversation, as most of you know, yesterday with the President of China. It was a very, very warm conversation. I think we are in the process of getting along very well. And I think that will also be very much of a benefit to Japan.... We have conversations with various representatives of China, I believe, that that will all work out very well for everybody — China, Japan, the United States, and everybody in the region.’..." Another indication of the new strategic orientation, Zepp-LaRouche went on to mention, is the rapprochement between Prime Minister Abe and Russian President Putin, including cooperation on developing the disputed Kuril Islands, while Japan plans significant investments in Russia’s Far East. The Trump White House, moreover, made known through a "senior Administration official" that the United States has nothing against the growing cooperation between Japan and Russia. And Trump himself has repeatedly said he wants to improve relations with Russia. Coming to the case of Germany, Zepp-LaRouche noted that the Minister President of Bavaria Horst Seehofer (CSU) has apparently sensed which way the wind is blowing, and according to media reports, would like to visit Trump and plans another visit to Putin. Chancellor Merkel on the contrary appears to be absorbed in her new role as defender "of the free West." She just expressed, together with Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, her opposition to any easing of the sanctions against Russia. "The support of the Berlin government for the regime in Kiev is a scandal," Zepp-LaRouche wrote. Unfortunately, the SPD’s candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz, who as President of the European Parliament until very recently is the representative of the EU establishment, has not shown any inclination to present a real alternative to Merkel in his geopolitical view of Russia and China. In the upcoming campaign for the Bundestag, Zepp-LaRouche writes that the BüSo "will make every effort to point to the enormous potential Germany could reap by cooperating with the U.S., Russia, China, Japan and many other countries, above all in the economic development of Southwest Asia and Africa. Germany now has the awesome opportunity to devise a foreign policy which is both in the best interests of Germany and in harmony with what Xi Jinping calls the ’community of common destiny for the future of mankind.’ Germany’s inventive spirit, engineering expertise and the productivity of its Mittelstand [industrial small and medium enterprises] are exactly what the development of the world requires, and their participation in the projects of the New Silk Road and in international scientific cooperation would massively improve the range of jobs available domestically. That means leaving behind low salaries and unproductive jobs to create highly skilled, productive employment and thereby a high living standard for all." Helga Zepp-LaRouche concludes: "Since hyperventilating involves inhaling too much oxygen and exhaling too much carbon dioxide, all those who blame CO2 emissions for climate change, should calm down, and stop looking at Trump, China and Russia through geopolitical eyeglasses." The original article in German can be read (here) |