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As Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphasized throughout the week, people
all across the world should be very, very happy about what is emerging
from the just-concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit
in Tianjin, China.
If you include the expanded SCO and the BRICS+ members, these two
organizations now represent a total of 38 countries. Of these, 8 are
in both groupings, whose combined population is about 6 billion
people. That’s 75% of the world. Various speeches given, including
those by Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, and many others,
spoke about the forward dynamic for progress of humanity emerging from
a commitment among these nations to economic development, cooperation,
and a new concordance—a community of principle in which every nation
is treated equally.
The aspirations now being realized in this forward momentum towards
a new world economic order were first enunciated in the post-war years
of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The Bandung Conference of Asian and
African states, which was held April 18-24, 1955, had promoted the
aims of what was then called “the Third World” of “non-aligned
nations” to end colonialism. This was, unfortunately, largely opposed
by the United States, particularly its Dulles-dominated State
Department, a position in complete contradiction with the 1776
American Declaration of Independence. That document upholds the right
of all nations to promote “life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness” against any empire which subverts those sacred values.
Today, as in 1955, the nations of the BRICS+ and the SCO are not
“an anti-western coalition.” The U.S. should not treat them as such,
but should instead remember its founding principles, and approach all
nations with an effort toward mutual respect and understanding. This
is the only basis to avoid civilization-ending wars, and create a new
security and development architecture, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has
consistently insisted.
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