{"id":3958,"date":"2015-01-03T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2015-01-03T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:36:13","slug":"2015-will-be-all-about-iran-china-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"b-article__header-title \"><a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/columnists\/20141231\/1016436434.html\" target=\"_blank\">2015\u00a0Will\u00a0Be\u00a0All\u00a0About\u00a0Iran,\u00a0China\u00a0and\u00a0Russia<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong class=\"b-article__lead\">Upcoming 2015 year will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia, Pepe Escobar believes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\">\n<p>BEIJING, December 31 (Sputnik)\u00a0\u2014 Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against\u00a0what I have described as\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/columnists\/20141231\/the%20http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Empire-Chaos-Roving-Eye-Collection-ebook\/dp\/B00OYVYD3G\/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1415721538&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Empire+of+Chaos\" target=\"_blank\">Empire of\u00a0Chaos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So yes \u2013 it will be all about\u00a0further moves towards\u00a0the integration of\u00a0Eurasia as\u00a0the US is progressively squeezed out\u00a0of Eurasia. We will see a complex geostrategic interplay progressively undermining the hegemony of\u00a0the US dollar as\u00a0a reserve currency and, most of\u00a0all, the petrodollar.For all the immense challenges the Chinese face, all over\u00a0Beijing it&#8217;s easy to\u00a0detect unmistakable signs of\u00a0a self-assured, self-confident, fully emerged commercial superpower. President Xi Jinping and the current leadership will keep investing heavily in\u00a0the urbanization drive and the fight against\u00a0corruption, including at\u00a0the highest levels of\u00a0the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Internationally, the Chinese will accelerate their overwhelming push for\u00a0new &#8216;Silk Roads&#8217; \u2013 both overland and maritime \u2013 which will underpin the long-term Chinese master strategy of\u00a0unifying Eurasia with\u00a0trade and commerce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015\u00a0Will\u00a0Be\u00a0All\u00a0About\u00a0Iran,\u00a0China\u00a0and\u00a0Russia &nbsp; Upcoming 2015 year will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia, Pepe Escobar believes. BEIJING, December 31 (Sputnik)\u00a0\u2014 Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against\u00a0what I have described as\u00a0the\u00a0Empire of\u00a0Chaos. So yes \u2013 it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,130,2369,281,284,441,694,834],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-eurasia","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-iran","tag-russia","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}