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black st. so no, we the say low their soft power and he can the final goal of these thing revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world any more. ah, everybody, i'm rick sanchez. you know, i've recovered news all over the world and founding a $1000000000.00 company. i'm here to tell you, well, as much as i possibly can tell it like it is. so welcome to what we call direct impact. it seems these days to me anyway, like there's every day another group of countries who are forging a coalition to see if there really is strength in numbers, right? you know what they're finding, what, what they're finding is there really is strength, the numbers it used to be that the superpowers had to invite you to be part of one
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of these groupings. like, for example, in my part of the world, the yo, a and the organization of american states, you know, which is really controlled by the united states, right? most would argue, still is, or the organization of not ally nations that ended up being kind of on the align side. not the mon, aligned side today though, and this is important because it gives us a sense of where we are and where things are heading. there seemed to be more a lot more there. you know, obviously the, the big ones are the you. there's also breaks. there's nafta, there's co mesa, which interestingly enough brings together all of the countries in eastern and southern africa. that specific. and then there's one that we want to focus on today because this is really the breakout one, right? it's called off eod, not asian asi on a s e a n. it's the association of southeast asian nations. and this grouping,
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by the way, regional countries, once again, they include brunei, cambodia, indonesia, louse, malaysia, me and mar the philippines. second port thailand and you know, vietnam. they have a population of almost 3 quarters of a 1000000000 people. and a g d, p of $3.00 trillion dollars. that's big. the reason that these countries are so important is because together, they're now so powerful enough to matter, especially economically that all reset reports seem to show that, well, our economy here in the united states where we are in our nation's capital. i'm a block from the white house, from where i speak to you. and in fact, other western nations, you know, europe, for example, economies in the next year,
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possibly the next year to we're going to be stagnant, meaning it will actually contract throughout the year while. and here's the payoff, right? the economies of these i see on countries these aussie on nations are going to hit record growth levels. according to many adults. i mean, talk about a, you're gonna yank right now. we don't know what's actually going to happen, but that's what a lot of economists are production predicting that there's going to be a real big difference. what that gives them, by the way, is essentially a vaulted position one they're using now to assert themselves and push back against, for example, western rules and conventions. in fact, it's appearing. and this is, i think, kind of key asi on countries are moving toward an alliance. now, not just geographically cuz they always have cars are in that region. but more of a real alliance with china. why?
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well, because what it, what it seems that they're looking for is a very interesting word that really comes into play these days. when you look at the global picture, it's called pragmatism. i sound community was finally launched on 31st december 2015. the is point the region to be a politically cohesive, economically integrated, and socially responsible community. currently, it is proud to be one of the fastest growing consumer markets and biggest economy in the world. and what do we mean by the word pragmatism? what i say that? well, i guess we have to start by looking at ourselves, right? the, my country, our country from where we are now, the u. s. has long been and still is the big dog in the race when it comes to global leadership. there's no question, however,
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of late because of economic conditions out of you for many countries that we too often lead with a clenched fist. especially when it comes to the use of our military and our need to solve military weapons and infrastructure. kind of losing that edge kind of losing that edge. china, on the other hand, is leading with infrastructure, key infrastructure. it goes in the countries with the aim of building mega infrastructure projects in every country, in every region that it can touch with these deals with these nations, like ozzy on these regional groupings. in most cases, by the way, that is money that they then lend to those countries. so it's not like they're doing it for free or anything. don't get me wrong. so far though, this, this plan, this, this thing they're doing well, it seems to be working. you know, what's interesting about all of this, it's interesting that this is happening. this whole thing with assay on,
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despite the fact that the u. s. has been courting asi on countries, president biden himself leading the reception. you might remember this. men do the asi on countries, respect the u. s. as vaulted position, as you see them, they are playing, follow the leader as a president biden brings them all out in this. so ceremony they had at the white house, this reception. ah, well, of course they do, of course that nobody saying that they don't respect the united states, that they're not gonna be working with the united states. this is going to continue, but what they also know is that the u. s. is no longer the only game in town, no longer the only game in town. in fact, the same could be said these days about many of these regional blocks all the way from the middle east, through africa. and of course, my backyard, latin america. joining a stop to talk about this is
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a former foreign minister of austria coreen can, isaac is a political and list to serve as austria as foreign minister from 2017 to 20. 19. and she's good enough to join us now because she is really smart when it comes to this stuff. so we're so glad that we have are here, dr. can i so thanks so much for, for joining us. it's, it's really nice to have you here. you know why com? thank you very much for the invitation. let's start with asi on. i find that grouping fascinating because the more i read about them, the more that i realize they're well, pardon my ignorance perhaps. but one of those regional groupings that i never paid a lot of attention to, but lately they've been coming up a lot and they've been becoming very, very important. and they're getting the attention of a lot of countries, including, as you saw in that video from president biden. what is it about them that's putting them in this, in this voltage space? if i, if i can use that term. well,
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as i keep saying for at least 20 years or pipelines and airlines and moving east, the music is playing in the east, not in the west, and there are many voices. so i pointed to the fact that to the 21st century istation century angling has engage. i always say china, us, china is so close to giants, but that is so co tiger states as we used to call them actor, already back in the late 19 eighties. i give them an amazing country by itself. amazing society. i had the privilege to teach once upon a time in what you mean city from us. i gone then. so was one of my most impressive i experience of a swiss young academia because at dad they're just curious debt, eager to learn the uncertainty in every respect. and this is something that, that i'm interesting in many western universities. sandra, it goes from academia to companies, to the corporate world. i used to ega, i,
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instance thirsty, i, you're ready to, to renounce on something in order to, to advance. and this is definitely more the case in many societies, was in ozzy and then was in the european union for instance, do you think that come, you mentioned vietnam? so, i mean, that's a big, powerful economy right now, binding some 1000000 people and an economy that compares to some of the biggest in the world these days. oh, do you think a country like vietnam throw in malaysia, throw in all the other countries in the oxy regional grouping? do they understand now that they're togetherness? and then add to that on association with china makes a much more powerful than if, and here's the interesting part of my question than if they had avoided china or maybe not avoided them, but not necessarily relied on so much. relied with them so much and stayed more
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with the united states have have they have that clicked? do you think in their heads was this is a topic that has been on the debate for, for quite some time. i mean, we have to catch word of decoupling from china when it comes to the united states, which is also forcing other countries into taking a distance from china. not being too dependent, not being too interconnected on a new form of the globalization. and for the other countries which shows through that your graphic, proximity, history, demographic bonds are much more connected to the people's republic of china. then come to small to the west and they are in a court my of course because decoupling is, is inaugural for them. for many, many reasons. i mean, it starts with chinese investments of whether it's fired about and wrote initiative . it goes to soft power of china, wire deed tourism,
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and sports industry. you name it, you have it where there's a deep into connectedness, a connection between china and, and those tighter states. and of course you also have japan, which is a kind of arrival in depth and you have india. mm. as the decoupling process, step washing wants to see is a shadow hanging over the if is the current situation at all for many of those asking states it's question where to turn to but i'm pretty sure data geography, which is always the concept fact of history will have a decisive role in that doctor. stay when you are. i'm going to come back to you in just a minute. i want to continue the conversation. but by the way, i do invite you to check out my podcast. it's called the rick sanchez podcast.
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katcha, it's global and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts. and when we come back to the saudis of what's what their sudden fascination with president g. like he velvet probably right back. november 22nd 2022 outraged orthodox christians confronted ukrainian security service officers, docking entrances and exits to keep the oldest monastery. they were looking for a russian spies among the monks. we mean villa seaman nurse and he wasn't away from the reason for the brutal crime down one churches. parishioners had sung a song about a
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it's long been recently enough to condemn any old adult christian attack in prison and even kill them. russia what i knew, rush up, i need to figure out how many miles store noonish total loss lighter annually. total thought as you used to me stop a senior bomb. i used to miss dom this seems neat. we just sat down with the battery, russia in the 21st century, has taken several opportunities to try to see if there would be interested in the west to create new boundaries to create a new relationship. and as you mentioned, time and time and time again, it would get flatly rejected because we have sort of pushed russia into this corner, ideologically attitude. me say you're the adversary, you're the, we may not be in a formal bipolar ideological cold war anymore. but we're not going to allow
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a new relationship to develop the ah, walk back. this is direct impact. i'm rick sanchez. so recently i don't know you've noticed or not, but there has been a, almost a bro, me of sorts between the saudi arabia and china. more specifically, between prince mohammad been solomon and president g there gatherings. their conversations have been quite public, and it's become very clear that saudi arabia wants to continue to do deals with china. they are collaborating on trade economic military agreements. i mean to the tune of tens of billions of dollars by the way, which for the saudis, i guess is not that much product you put. in fact, as we peruse some of the images of the meetings that we've seen between these 2
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countries, between these 2 leaders, these 2 men, what we see is a lot of pomp and a lot of circumstance, right, lot of competing circumstance. but when president biden back when president biden went to react, right, not president g, but president, but the reception was actually kind of dry. it was in fact referred to as a no frills reception. so one can't help but ask, then this goes against historic, right? what is the signal that the saudis are trying to send with this? and joining us now to talk about this is dr. canada, who is the former foreign minister of austria. knows a lot about this particular topic because she has a very keen on the middle east in particular. so let's talk saudi arabia. i am always fascinated by saudi arabia and what they do and what they don't do. but i was very fascinated by making this comparison, which is why don't why i wanted to show this video. i'm almost thinking they trade
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they treated or have been treating president g as if he were a us president. if you to what i mean. yes, yes. why everybody of us remember, so maybe the pictures back in 2018? was it when uh, president trump made his 1st visit abroad, not to canada, not to execute. no, he went sold to saudi arabia and, and did they do? it was quite there. a warm, cordial atmosphere, dancing and, and swinging, and, and, and cheering, and it had its, its results. but, oh, you, you reminded us of the rather cool reception that our president biden received a few months ago. and the, what is, what happened now this time in terms of a drew state were said by president she is the following, the,
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the chinese a belong in my assessment to the very few who still take time for with it. and oh, there the westerners have just kind of instant meetings, very short, very awe, very concise, and it, it often doesn't leave space and time to really have a profound conversation and to build something like trust. now president, she came to saudi arabia for full 3 days. i think why was it was, was a few hours, not, not even a day on president. she does is another story came, for instance, to serbia, which is her small 1000 eastern country in, in, in europe. he, he was there for 5 days, you know, most of a european officials talk a lot about the importance of serbia for the european union, but the never spend more than an hour rubia. ah, so the chinese really take time for their wizard. so also when they receive guests
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and it's not only about protocol, but it's really about building trust and this is a good old school diplomacy which can is its results. and sir, so the st. they was, it was rich and every, regardless, not only upon before to call, it was not only about ceremonial. ah, dick, florida, that's a leaf. it's traces and perception. no, no, the the and that now a genuine strategic partnership. and i know that the word strategic partnership pests has become inflationary it's, it's a we're used, but in that sense, we can really call it a strategic partnership. it's about $30000000000.00 investment is about investment in artificial intelligence, high tech nuclear, and it's cheaper that also was already on the agenda back in 2016 when she came for the 1st time. and what i would say um from my personal assessment is, is,
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is the one thing that really changed the road today. little bit is that a residence she suggested in this china or up trade forum, which was attended by about 30 hats of state from the arab world. and to used to shanghai, treat a stock exchange market for an at she agreements and to have the you on introduced in there and she agreements. so i do look sort of commodities which we use for an a t what it's i gas lease young. everything is traded in us dollars. yeah. you asked or like the commodity trade currency and there have been changes over the years. i wrote about that 15 years ago, i was always keen into the topic her will oil betrayed it one day, him and why i knew basket will betrays maybe even in goldhill. so no, this is we up, this is,
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i gotta stop you here cuz this is fascinating. what you are, what, what you just said. i mean on it's almost as if, if i was sitting at the white house right now or at the state department or maybe more the us treasury. and i was watching these conversations that have been taking place between gee and other countries. but more specifically the saudis, i mean they're the mat daddy's awhile money. i would think these conversations would make me think of 2 things. swift possibly coming to some kind of roll down or, and even, and the dollarization actually being something that could start to happen more in earnest despite the fact that everybody talks about it with these 2 guys talking about that thing that you just said, am i wrong? yeah, well it's, it's a topic that has been around for quite some time
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a few months ago. even the financial times carried an article on it. so everybody had paid attention to it. i even the f t is talking about the dollarization in a very serious way. but when we break it down to the figures, of course, the figures for the time being stood there was a different story. the dollar covers about 42 percent of world trade, the u on the chinese, a currency is in charge of something like 3.6 percent for trade. and i think 35 percent go to to the euro, but sinks can change very quickly because a currency is built on trust. it's all about trust. otherwise, it's color money. it's color people and the so what is the back up of that currency and what, what is the basis of the trust and is a currency backed up by a sound potential of, of economic activity of commodities i like is the case of for, for,
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for the russian currency, rubel that is backed up by commodities. and, and what does this mean for the future financial system? i wrote an article a few months ago in which i claim that the bottom line of my text was you can print money. look at quantitative easing. everything that has been happening ever since the abandoning of the dollar standards in the seventy's and you asked but you cannot print energy. and i think some people world have understood that. so you managed to swift and which is a very powerful tool. we have seen it was the reason sanctions. and so what we are in currently is the power of the financial markets of insurance market not to be forgot one week because it is sanctions couldn't happen the way to happen if there hadn't been also the role of insurance companies and most of them have their
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company seeds in london, in frankfort in switzerland. so it's a, it's a laws western hemisphere monopoly insurance market if you want. and we have on the other hand, at the region that has space, it's wells on commodities, but wants to go beyond that. and then in the middle east or west asia, whatever we want to call it, let's call it more with asia because we are turning into a new period. and those of the notion of middle east as i was claim it's, it's a very eurocentric perception because from a london perspective, it was the middle east from a john perspective for them, year easter, that now has been an from a she from a very, a proper geographic perception, it's part of age. it's west asia. sh and, and say, here we have to asian powerhouse china. and we have the west asian commodity
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producers. so all saw the out gulf states. so i and you chapter has opened the last 3 days and it's also interesting to put that into the larger picture of china and iran and iraq and saudi arabia because, but their enemy, robert albert but, but they are mortal enemies. how in the world is that going to work out? how can china straddle that line up? well it, it, they, they do it and it's instead, this is the very interesting part about it. because unfortunately, u. s. diploma safe freedom. he put it down to inverted comma, she, i was always about either with us or against us and it's either or, but really blah nasty. successful diplomacy is not either org, between courses and yeah, it's inclusive, it, it has, it has to be inclusive,
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it has to be, we, you know, if i'm doing a business deal with you, a doctor, i would say to you, i want you to hear out my competition and see what they offer you and come back and i'm going to try and beat that. i'm going to try and make you happier than they can make you happy. and if they make you happier them, you know, maybe in the future will do business. it's not either you do business with me or i'm never going to talk to him with the vendors that it's, it's like what you mentioned earlier. i happen to be latino. so i come from latin america in our world. if you come to do business with me, you better get you better spend some time with me. you're going to be my, my wife and my mother and my family and my kids. and i'm going to meet yours. it's not about just sitting down and wrapping things out. so in that sense there, there is almost even a cultural tie to some of the things that you have been telling us. we are out of time. professor doctor, this is a been a really important conversation. thanks so much for joining us. you are a delight to talk to him. we'll certainly know your field as to love his stuff. he
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well meant that he wanted me to reach out as yes. i want to take this a moment now to remind you of our mission here on this show. it's simple, really what we want to do is kind of be silo the world. it's kind of like what we were just talking about a moment ago with the good doctor. you know, we've got to stop living in these little boxes that we create for ourselves. cuz true. don't live in boxes. they're everywhere. memory centers and we're looking for you again right here where i hope to provide a direct impact. ah ah, a
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time at the end of the 18th century, great britain began to conquer and colonize australia. from the very beginning of the british penetration to the continent, natives were subjected to severe violence and deliberate extra patient. according to modern historians. in the 1st 140 years, there were at least 270 massacres of local depot. any resistance to the british was answered with doubled cruelty. hundreds of natives were killed for the murder of one settler. indigenous australians were not considered complete people. no wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. men, women, and children are shot whenever they can be met with squatter. henry myrick wrote in a letter to his family in england, in 18. 46. australia's past is rightly described as blood soaked and races. if at
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the beginning of colonization, there were one and a half 1000000 indigenous people living on the continent, then by the beginning of the 20th century, their number had decreased till 100000 people. despite the indisputable historical facts, the problem of full recognition of the crimes of white australians against aborigines has not been resolved so far. ah, ah ah
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ah, with this? yes, they said they had to work as a november 22nd 2022 pound range orthodox christians confronted ukrainian security service offices, blocking entrances and exits. the keys, oldest monastery were looking for an alleged russian spies among the monks. just got brand new malo la with today ukrainian security services can brandon agent of moscow. any mongo priest unwilling to break relations with the russian orthodox church?
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dozens of ukrainian churches have been rated to form a reason for the brutal crackdown. one church, his parishioners sent some a song about russia ah, me in numerous such as s b. u officers reported they'd found orthodox magazines printed in russia. the s b u didn't care that these publications were religious and had been printed more than 3 years before. oh maybe, but they were from moscow in ukraine. it's long been recently enough to condemn any orthodox christian attack in prison and even kill them with steel as long as cromwell cranes kept by.

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