[Peace-discuss] Pepe Escobar's latest from sputnikglobe.com

[J.B. Nicholson]

Pepe Escobar's latest 
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230526/pepe-escobar-eurasian-heartland-rises-to-challenge-the-west-1110600622.html 
begins:

> President Xi Jinping telling President Putin at the end of their summit last March
> in Moscow that we’re now facing “great changes not seen in a century” directly
> applies to the new spirit reigning across the Heartland.
> 
> Cue to the China-Central Asia summit last week in Xian, the former imperial
> capital, where Xi solidified the expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
> from Western China in Xinjiang to its western neighbors and then all the way to
> Iran, Turkey and Eastern Europe.
> 
> Xi in Xian particularly stressed the complementing aspects between BRI and the
> Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)[1], once again showing that all five Central
> Asian “stans”, acting together, should counter-act the proverbial external
> interference via “terrorism, separatism and extremism”.
> 
> The message was stark: these hybrid war[2] strategies are all integrated with the
> attempt by the Hegemon to continue fostering serial color revolutions. The
> purveyors of the “rules-based international order”, Xi implied, will go no holds
> barred to prevent ongoing Heartland integration.
> 
> The usual suspects in fact are already spinning that Central Asia is falling into
> a potential trap, fully captured by Beijing. Yet this is something Kazakhstan’s
> “multi-vector diplomacy”, coined way back in the Nazarbayev years, would never
> allow.
> 
> What Beijing is developing, instead, is an integrated approach via a C+C5[3]
> secretariat with no less than 19 separate channels of communication.

[1] 
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230504/will-sco-become-new-united-nations-for-non-western-world-1110101791.html
[2] 
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230520/what-is-hybrid-warfare-and-why-is-it-more-dangerous-than-missiles-and-bullets-1110481705.html
[3] 
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230509/new-era-of-cooperation-xi-jinping-to-chair-china-central-asia-summit-1110218163.html