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Titolo: Russia’s interest in Africa is another step to end USA’s global domination

Russia’s interest in Africa is another step to end USA’s global domination
High-tech cooperation will give Russia an opportunity to enter the African
market through South Africa. Moscow tries to retrieve its erstwhile
influence on the African continent, preparing to face tough competition
with world’s leading countries. President Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape
Town to solve these issues. 
 
The visit to Africa, which Putin started Tuesday, was initiated with the
development of the global economic system, from which Russia was gradually
falling out during the recent decade. The Russian administration started
formulating its geopolitical interests openly only a short time ago. 
Slowly but surely the existence of the unipolar world is drawing to an
end. The sweeping development of new centers of influence in Southeast
Asia, China and India, the activity of the Muslim world and Russia testify
to the creation of new political and economic forces in the world. Each of
those forces is in need of new markets and resources to be able to develop
and strengthen further on. 
Moscow lost its influence in Africa for 15 years. The results of the
fierce political struggle between the world’s strongest superpowers in the
1960s and the 1970s returned no results for Russia. Nowadays Russia is
returning to Africa. It goes without saying that the Russian government
will have to fight with both traditional competitors and new rivals who
have already entered the African market: China, Mideastern countries and
Latin American states. 
Restricting relations with Africa on the whole and with South Africa in
particular implies an obvious strategic failure for a superpower. A
private initiative of such large Russian enterprises already working on
the South African market as Norilsk Nickel, diamond company Alrosa or
aluminium giant Rusal is not enough for expanding the cooperation. Russia
needs to develop new programs in the field of high-tech industry,
including military cooperation, energy and investments. 
In spite of the fact that the turnover between Russia and South Africa has
been characterized as positive for several years already, the two
countries know practically nothing of their own technical and economic
opportunities. 
Unlike other countries, South Africa runs no policies to discriminate
Russian companies. Quite on the contrary, the South African administration
is interested in their active participation in the development of the
national economy. 
Russia’s current interest in Africa already starts raising concerns with
foreign competitors. China will most likely be the first country to do
something in response. The Chinese administration will try to minimize
Russia’s current efforts in Africa. It is not ruled out that China will
offer Russia an attractive investment program in the near future. Europe
will intensify competition in high-tech field, whereas the USA will do its
best to detract Russia’s attention from South Africa. Washington will
obviously take account of its past mistakes, when it concentrated on
Europe, the CIS, Russia and the Middle East and lost its influence in
several Latin American countries. 
Vladimir Anokhin
Scientist of politics, 
vice president of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems 
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 Russia’s interest in Africa is another step to end USA’s global domination...
...and to increase its own - YAWN!
Am.


#_Ha un grossissimo concorrente costituito dalla Cina, che si e`inserita un
po' dappertutto, dove ci sono risorse naturali ed energetiche.
Visto il peso politico che il SudAfrica ha nel continente , e` comunque una
mossa astuta.
Giano

Giano ha scritto:
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vero. Lo si vede anche dalla rosicata dei russofobi  .
ciao
s.
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