M.D. Nalapat
NEW DELHI, Feb. 13
(UPI) -- The foreign ministers of the three giants of the Asian landmass --
Russia, China and India -- will meet Feb. 14 in New Delhi to advance an old
proposal for a Trilateral Global Alliance that would effectively exclude the
West from a position of superiority in Asia, before achieving the same purpose
in Africa and South America.
Although at present
only a gleam in the eye of geopoliticians, the TGA has made enough progress in
the past two years to indicate that within the next three, a framework
agreement could be signed by the three heads of government that would codify
the principles and objectives of this partnership aimed at limiting Western
power.
It is interesting to
note that European powers all won special advantages in the rest of the world
not by peaceful cooperation, but by conquest. This is perhaps the reason why
soldiers, sailors and airmen play a much bigger role in Western
"diplomacy" than diplomats themselves.
Australia, for
example, has now joined hands with New Zealand in sending armed troops to small
island countries near them, in order to enforce their will over the peoples
there. So dominating is Australia that even the present Timorese leadership --
the recipient of huge funds and other aid from Canberra in its long battle
against Indonesia -- has now sought to distance itself from a country that
seems determined to rule the territory by the gun.