Pivot To Asia in Big Trouble: RCEP on the Rise
With 50 nations signing on, it looks like the Chinese Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has gone a long way towards foiling the US plans to surround China and Russia with the Pacific Pivot. The latest blow is the Philippines’ growing relations with China. For the empire, the usual solution is assassination. But, as this article points out, Duterte’s popularity makes this a very dangerous prospect.
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Bruce
Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books: From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.