A vertical ascent of profits for Euro-American financiers of the "New World Order" depends on two junior "partners," Asia and South America (last year's and this year's victims of the Western "free market," respectively) rolling over for "restructuring" (read "hostile takeover") of their economies by Euro-American plutocrats, via the IMF et al. Now, surprisingly, Southeast Asia and Latin America are considering forming an ALLIANCE to support each other's economies AGAINST Euro-American plundering -- cutting the greedy MIDDLEMAN, Euro-American capitalism, out of the loop entirely. One more nail in the coffin --a SHARP one, being ECONOMIC in nature-- of "unipolar" (Eurocentric) power -- the expansion of which is provoking strong reactions from its historic enemies, the "post-Communist" superpowers -- Russia and China. Japan to support Asia-Latin America summit-paper TOKYO, April 4 (Reuters) - Japan is ready to support a proposal from Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong to establish an economic and trade forum between Asian and Latin American nations, a Japanese financial daily reported on Sunday. Singapore wants to hold the first summit, consisting of about 40 nations, in 2000 and is seeking Japan's support, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, citing informed Japanese government sources. Among the aims of the planned summit would be to help resolve the current currency crisis and give the nations a more united voice in dealings with the United States and International Monetary Fund, the paper said. The summit is also expected to discuss trade and investment, partly to challenge the planned Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), it reported. The summit members will include 30 planned participants of the FTAA along with seven Southeast Asian countries, Japan, China and South Korea, it said. Singapore's Business Times in December reported Goh as saying that the proposed forum linking Asia and Latin America was one of the key outcomes of a December meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nations. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun also quoted a Japanese Ministry official as saying the United States might not be opposed to the summit. "If the U.S. does object, it would face difficulty gaining support from Latin America when trying to set up the FTAA," the official was reported as saying. The FTAA, a single market of 800 million people from Alaska to Patagonia in Argentina, is projected to be created by 2005, but negotiations are expected to be long and difficult.
