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> Today's NY Times writes of Putin's 3-hour press conference with U.S.
> journalists: "Putin also stated for the first time that Russia has taken
> an interest in ensuring that China's strategic concerns are addressed in
> the debate....Putin said he reported to the Chinese president, Jiang
> Zemin, by telephone yesterday on the summit meeting....Jiang and Putin
> met last week in Shanghai..."
> Reuter's interviewed a Russian military analyst, Alexander Golts,
> quoting him: "'This is the first time that Mr. Putin has shown that he
> wants to advocate and support Chinese strategic interests....Maybe they
> really believe that we can have some alliance with the Chinese. In my
> view, it is a new trend in our politics'."
> Two years ago, immediately upon the end of the Kosovo War, I added
> three pages on it to my Saying No To Power, then about to go to press.
> The next to last paragraph of the book reads:
> "So a war that began with the world looking unipolar, Washington making
> all basic decisions, ended with the beginnings of a new bloc to confront
> it, and nuclear wild cards such as China and India in a position to
> throw their weight to one side or the other. Russia was free to side
> with the Asian giants or Europe or seek to unite both against us."
> NO other analyst, print or electronic, academic, journalist, or pundit, foresaw that.
> My autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER (Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999), is
> styled for the general reader. However, if you teach in the social
> sciences, consider it for course use. It was written as a social history
> of the U.S. for the past three-quarters of a century through the eyes of
> a participant observer in most progressive social movements (I'm 84),
> and of the USSR from the standpoint of a Sovietologist (five earlier books) knowing that country longer than any other in the profession. Therefore it is also a history of the Cold War. Positive reviews in The Black Scholar, American Studies in Scandinavia, San Francisco Chronicle, forthcoming in Tikkun, etc. CHAPTERS MAY BE READ AT www.BillMandel.net where you can also hear/see/read my defiant testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and, earlier, Sen. Joe McCarthy.
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