tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post8911941508924496045..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Sunday Essay - is this the Eurasian century? Jim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-44808626971547758812015-06-22T06:17:16.929+10:002015-06-22T06:17:16.929+10:00Hi kvd and thanks.Hi kvd and thanks.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-29533954777451325812015-06-22T05:27:19.982+10:002015-06-22T05:27:19.982+10:00Just to keep the reference:
http://www.theguardia...Just to keep the reference:<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/21/eurasia-idea-time-come-again-china-russia<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-75946579586533434592015-06-16T14:36:55.172+10:002015-06-16T14:36:55.172+10:00An essay must be measured professional and it must...An essay must be measured professional and it must be owed a significant amount of time to its conclusion. <a href="http://essaysorigin.com" rel="nofollow">Essay writing service</a> surely are a smart view for that stricken college students to satisfy their strain and reach preferred grades. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-88176689078605053072015-06-15T06:03:03.136+10:002015-06-15T06:03:03.136+10:00Hi kvd. I wasn't thinking of Eurasia as one bl...Hi kvd. I wasn't thinking of Eurasia as one block. I can't see that happening. It's rather the impact of new infrastructure and linkages that will play out in ways we can't yet see. <br /><br />We have seen examples of this at a purely local level in Australia. It's part of the history of New England or, in another case, look at the impact of Canberra. The investment in road, rail and pipelines carried out in part for ideological and geo-political reasons not connected with immediate market conditions changes the economic dynamics. For example, it is already quicker in some cases to send goods to Europe by road from China than by sea. <br /><br />I suspect that we are seeing something of the same thing in Africa with the slow growth of intra-Africa linkages.<br /><br />Australian thinking around the "Asian" century treats Asia as a block and says how might Australia fit in? My very simplistic analysis suggests that we need to change that mind set, that we remain gofers! <br /><br /> Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-17602453502773529342015-06-14T18:34:09.239+10:002015-06-14T18:34:09.239+10:00Both Russia and China are command economies, and p...Both Russia and China are command economies, and paranoid (internally, externally) as well - possibly with good reason. I think (in the long term) any close liason is only so good as their respective strategic needs are met by co-operation, and not threatened by weakness in either. <br /><br />Internal discontent always hovers in the background, and the US has the same, but at least with some sort of shakey promise of a better future.<br /><br />To speak of 'Eurasia' as one block (in the longer term) would be to deny the past couple of thousand years of history between the various parties? Not sure I'd go along with such a view. <br /><br />Be interesting to get Ramana's thoughts; I've never thought of China and India as comfortable bedfellows - and that blows your 'Eurasia' out of the park. India will sell excess rice - or anything - to anybody as long as it suits them to do so, and then most probably not. Unlike Russia, despite it's publicity, I think the only two countries capable of thinking past this century are India and China. Fair bit of history in that.<br /><br />Anyway - 'straya - that's this small bit of flotsam getting washed hither and to, by bigger tides than we can ever hope to influence. Not sure we have ever been a meaningful player at any significant level in the so-called global village. Being honest, gofers at best.<br /><br />kvd<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-71756822986570589802015-06-14T16:17:50.943+10:002015-06-14T16:17:50.943+10:00Hi anon. You capture the evolving dynamics. It'...Hi anon. You capture the evolving dynamics. It's also all the bits in the middle. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-11738277907297574952015-06-14T10:51:07.066+10:002015-06-14T10:51:07.066+10:00Made more complicated by the sanctions and counter...Made more complicated by the sanctions and counter-sanctions between EU and Russia. I gather trade between Russia and China and between Russia and India is booming. Indian rice is being used to offset the loss of access to Baltic grain for Russia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com