The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday December 5th, 2022
Gallic Rebuke: France and the US Rules-based Order by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Gerard Araud was not mincing his words. As France’s former ambassador to Washington, he had seen enough. At a November 14 panel hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar Word?”, Araud decried the “economic warfare” being waged by the United States against China, expressing the view that Europe was concerned by the evident “containment policy” being pursued.
Araud is very much the diplomat establishment figure, having also served as French representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2014. But despite his pedigree, he was most keen to fire off a few salvos against such concepts as the “rules-based order” so treasured by the Anglosphere and the “West” more broadly defined. “To be frank, I’ve always been extremely sceptical about this idea of a ‘rules-based order’.” Both he and the French in general loved the United Nations, “but the Americans not too much”.
With unerring frankness, he also noted that the UN and broader international hierarchy was dominated by the US-European bloc. The undersecretaries to the organisation reflected that fact, as did the stewardship of the World Bank and the IMF. “So that’s the first element: this order is our order.”
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Forgiven sins #poem & #artinstallation by Amir Khatib
“I reveal to you a great secret;
When I took you to the garden,
It wasn’t my intention to harvest the wet as I promised you”
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #47 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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