The German foreign minister rushed to India, one day after the announcement of the US and Europe “ceiling” for Russian oil, and heard from her Indian colleague that her country will not change its energy policy – the increasing purchase of Russian oil .
It was reported by the newspaper The Hindu to the American agency Associated Press. For Minister S. Jaishankar, “it is not right that Europeans prioritize their energy needs but ask India not to”.
Times of India and others reported overhead shortly afterwards that “more than 50% of Russia’s Urals grade oil went to India in November.”
And the Mint financier took up S. Jaishankar’s praises again, noting how he withstood “Western media hostility” when he “refused to take sides against Russia” and how he ended up winning.
Today, the newspaper added, regarding the German envoy, “there is an envious acceptance of India’s posture, that it would take any decision in the interest of its people”, as in the purchase of Russian oil:
“S. Jaishankar has never been seduced by NATO’s moral discourse on Ukraine. Instead, it speaks of the need to protect its 1.4 billion people from the vagaries of oil prices.”
At the same time, by Hindustan Times and others, “World Bank raises India’s GDP forecast”, with the explanation that its “economy has been remarkably resilient to the deterioration of the external environment”, in the case of Germany.
SCHOLZ AGAINST THE COLD WAR
German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz publishes essay in the new issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, speaking to the American establishment “How to avoid a new Cold War in a multipolar era”.
He says that today we are experiencing a turning point, “Zeitenwende”, in which “new powers have emerged or resurfaced, including an economically strong and politically assertive China”. But that “the world is not doomed to split into blocks again”.
He defends that “the rise of China does not justify isolating Beijing” and recalls that it has only returned to being “a global player as before, in the history of the world”.
‘NO COUNTRY IS A BACKYARD’
Scholz closes by saying that “no country is another’s backyard”, from Asia to Latin America:
“These regions have every right to demand a greater role in global affairs, in line with their growing economic and demographic weight. This poses no threat to Europe or North America. On the contrary, it is the best way to maintain multilateralism. I live in a multipolar world.”
AS IT SEEMS, IT’S OVER
On the cover of Caixin (above), the “unlock in progress” or, in the title in English, “Covid Zero, it seems, is over”. The Beijing financial magazine goes so far as to say that, in part, “perhaps it was the public, which was beginning to reach the breaking point”.
But Washington’s Sinocism newsletter urges again: “Beware of concluding a link between the protests and the ‘sudden’ change. The reopening had already started in early November.”
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