our new relationship to develop with ah, everybody, i'm rick sanchez. you know, after covering news all over the world 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 part of the world. the yo, an 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 aligned side. not the mon, aligned side. today though,

and this is important because this 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 bricks. 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 that one that we want to focus on today cuz this is really the breakout one, right? it's called asi on not asian asana a s e a n. it's the association of southeast asian nations. and this grouping 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, the nom they have a population of almost 3 quarters of a 1000000000 people and

a gdp 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. in fact, all reset reports seem to show that while our economy here in the united states where we are in our nation's capital, la, 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, 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 icy on countries, these asi on nations. i'm gonna hit record growth levels. according to minneapolis, i mean, talk about a yank right now. we don't know what's actually going to happen,

but that's what a lot of economists are predicting them, predicting that there's going to be a real big difference. what that gives them, by the way, is essentially a vaulted position when 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 or in that region. but more of a real alliance with china. why? 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. and community was finally launched on 31st december 2015. the aim is point to 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 rightly 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, 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 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 our fee on, despite the fact that the u. s. has been courting countries, president biden himself leading the reception. you might remember this mean, do the asi on countries respect the u. s. as vaulted position, as you see them, they're playing, follow the leader as president biden brings them all out in this ceremony they had

at the white house, this reception. well, of course they do, of course nobody's saying that they don't respect the united states, that they're not going to be working with the united states. this is going to continue, but what they also know is that the us 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 us now to talk about this is a former foreign minister of austria. koreen can, isaac is a political and list to serve as austria as foreign minister from 2017 to 2019. 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. why com? thank you very much for the invitation. let's start with aussie on. i find that grouping fascinating because the more i read about them, the more that i realize there, 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, as i keep saying for at least 20 years or pipelines and airlines and moving east, that 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 hissing asia with, say, china, us, china is close to diane's. but that is so co tiger phase 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 which you mean city from us. i gone then. so was one of my most impressive i experienced the way it was a young academia, bukosa and dad. they're just curious, debt, eager to learn. they are thirsty 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 instance, or steel 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. busy had avoided china or maybe not avoided them, but not necessarily relied on so much. relied with them so much and stayed more with the united states have have they have that clicked? do you think in their heads was this is a topic that has been under debate for, for quite some time. i mean, we have to catch word of decoupling from china when it comes to united states, which is also forcing other countries into taking a distance from china and 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, a sports industry. you name it, you have it where there's a deep interconnectedness a connection between china and, and those tighter states. and of course you also have japan, which is the kind of arrival in that and you have india. mm. as

a decoupling process, step washington wants to see is a shadow hanging over down the if is the current situation at all for many of those austin 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. katcha, it's global and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts. and when we come back to saudis, what's what their sudden fascination with president g, like his elders. probably right back

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somebody with a robot must protect his own existence with o, clock back. this is direct impact. i'm rick sanchez. so recently i don't know if you've noticed or not, but there has been a, almost a bro mats of sorts between the saudi arabia and china. more specifically, between prince mohammad, been salman, and the president g o 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 he's not that much money. he put it back as we peruse some of the images of the meetings that we've seen between these 2 countries. between these 2 leaders, these 2 men, what we see is a lot of pomp and a lot of circumstance, right? lot of pomp and circumstance. but when president by me back when president biden went to re on, 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 they treated or have been treating president g as if he were. are you as president? if you to what i mean? yes, this is why everybody of us remember, so maybe the pictures back in 2018 was it when 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, 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, the chinese her belong in my assessment with a very few who still take time for with it. and oh, there the westerners have to 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 that white was, it was, was a few hours, not, not even a day. i'm 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 will take time for their wizard. so also when they receive guests 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 it's resolved then sir. so the st. they was, it was rich and ever, regardless, not only upon before to call, it was not only about ceremonial decor that, that's a leaf, it's traces and the 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 as 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 the one thing that really changed the road to day little bit is that rather than she suggested in this china or up grade forum, which was attended by about 30 hats of state from the arab world to used to shanghai trade, a stock exchange market for and, and she agreements and to have the you on introduced in there and she agreements. so i knew ok sort of commodities which we use for an a t what it's i gas lease young at. everything is traded in us dollars. yeah. you asked all like 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. will oil be traded one day in and why

a new basket will betrays maybe even in goal til so? no, this is we up, this is, 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 g and other countries. but more specifically the saudis, i mean they're the mat daddy's a while 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 a few months ago. even the financial times carried an article on his 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 still there was a different story. the dollar covers about 42 percent of world trade. the you on the chinese, a currency is in charge of something like 3.6 percent for trade. i think 35 percent go to the euro, but things can change very quickly because a currency it's built on trust, it's all about trust. otherwise, it's colored money, it's colored paper 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 sal,

potential of, of economic activity of commodities, or like is the case of for, for, for the russian currency, a rubel that is backed up by commodities. and, and what does this mean for the future financial system, a road and arcadia few months ago in which i claim that that bottom line of my text was. and you can print money, look at quantitative easing a, everything that has been happening ever since they're abandoning of the dollar standards in the seventy's in the us. 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 market of insurance market not to be

forgot. and we, 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 company seeds in london, in frankfort, in switzerland. so it's a, it's a north 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 also 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 job perspective for them year easter than i house. and from a she from a very 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 for the west asian commodity producers. so all saw the arab 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 didn't, they, they do it, and that is his desk. this is the very interesting part about it, because unfortunately, us diploma safe freedom. he put it on to inverted comma, she, i was always about either with us or against us and it's either or her. but really lemme see,

successful diplomacy. it's not either org with inclusive and yeah, it's inclusive, it, it has, it has to be inclusive, 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 to make you happier than they can make you happy, and 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 you again 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 been

a really important conversation. thanks so much for joining us. you're a delight to talk to him. we'll certainly know your field love if you are meant to dallas. yes. i want to take this 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 because trust don't live in boxes. they're everywhere. summer session, are we looking for you again, right here where i hope to provide a direct impact a ah

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