How China Could Quietly Play A Key Role In Afghanistan

Sorry for having mistakenly sent the previous comment.. I have since sent it to Fareed Zakaria: Wanted???A New Global Strategy, where it belonged.

Sorry for the previous gibberish, I had problems joining the group and signing in.

Mr. Zakaria, I believe the fundamental challenge is that world power must now really and truly be shared among all world major powers, old and new, as among equals. Ultimately, power must be exercised by, and have the support of, the international community of nations. It implies that with regard to the nascent world order (overall world institutions, country representation, rules and regulations, etc., indeed everything defining which constitutes that world order), no attempt to patch up the present system will work. It means that dreams of world hegemony have to be abandoned. The major problem therefore remains that the necessity for radical reform of the old world order has been neither admitted nor understood yet by the United States.

LSE professor John Gray: ???At present the US combines an absolutist insistence on its own national sovereignty with a universalist claim to worldwide jurisdiction. Such an approach is supremely ill-suited to the plural world which globalization has created. The practical upshot of American policy can only be that other powers will act unilaterally when the instability of global markets becomes intolerable. At that point, the jerry-built edifice of global laissez-faire will begin to crumble." ("False Dawn, the Delusions of Global Capitalism")

In view of the American arrogance and impotence displayed at the last G-20 summit in Washington, and considering recent unilateral initiatives by China, as well as by some major European countries, in the current global US generated crisis, I happen to believe this process has already begun. It is urgent, if not too late,