
By Pepe Escobar – Jun 14, 2021
It requires major suspension of disbelief to consider the G7, the self-described democracyâs most exclusive club, as relevant to the Raging Twenties. Real life dictates that even accounting for the inbuilt structural inequality of the current world system the G7âs economic output barely registers as 30% of the global total.
Cornwall was at best an embarrassing spectacle â complete with a mediocrity troupe impersonating âleadersâ posing for masked elbow bump photo ops while on a private party with the 95-year-old Queen of England, everyone was maskless and merrily mingling about in an apotheosis of âshared valuesâ and âhuman rightsâ.
Quarantine on arrival, masks enforced 24/7 and social distancing of course is only for the plebs.
The G7 final communique is the proverbial ocean littered with platitudes and promises. But it does contain a few nuggets. Starting with âBuild Back Betterâ â or B3 â showing up in the title. B3 is now official code for both The Great Reset and the New Green Deal.
Then thereâs the Yellow Peril remixed, with the âour valuesâ shock troops âcalling on China to respect human rights and fundamental freedomsâ with a special emphasis on Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
The story behind it was confirmed to me by a EU diplomatic source, a realist (yes, there are some in Brussels).
All hell broke loose inside the â exclusive â G7 room when the Anglo-American axis, backed by spineless Canada, tried to ramrod the EU-3 plus Japan into an explicit condemnation of China in the final communiquĂ© over the absolute bogus concentration camp âevidenceâ in Xinjiang. In contrast to politicized accusations of âcrimes against humanityâ, the best analysis of whatâs really going on in Xinjiang has been published by the Qiao collective.
Germany, France and Italy â Japan was nearly invisible â at least showed some spine. Internet was shut off to the room during the really harsh âdialogueâ. Talk about realism â a true depiction of âleadersâ vociferating inside a bubble.
The dispute essentially pitted Biden â actually his handlers â against Macron, who insisted that the EU-3 would not be dragged into the logic of a Cold War 2.0. That was something that Merkel and Mario âGoldman Sachsâ Draghi could easily agree upon.
In the end the divided G7 table chose to agree on a Build Back Better World â or B3W â âinitiativeâ to counter-act the Chinese-driven Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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Reset or else
The White House, predictably, pre-empted the final G7 communiquĂ©. A statement later retracted from their website, replaced by the official communique, made sure that, âthe United States and our G7 partners remains deeply concerned by the use of all forms of forced labor in global supply chains, including state-sponsored forced labor of vulnerable groups and minorities and supply chains of the agricultural, solar, and garment sectors â the main supply chains of concern in Xinjiang.â
âForced laborâ is the new mantra handily connecting the overlapping demonization of both Xinjiang and BRI. Xinjiang is the crucial hub connecting BRI to Central Asia and beyond. The new âforced laborâ mantra paves the way for B3W to enter the arena as the âsaviorâ human rights package.
Here we have a benign G7 âofferingâ the developing world a vague infrastructure plan that reflects their âvaluesâ, their âhigh standardsâ and their way of business, in contrast to the Yellow Perilâs trademark lack of transparency, horrible labor and environmental practices, and coercion methods.
Translation: after nearly 8 years since BRI, then named OBOR (One Belt, One Road) was announced by President Xi, and subsequently ignored and/or demonized 24/7, the Global South is supposed to be marveling at a vague âinitiativeâ funded by private Western interests whose priority is short-term profit.
As if the Global South would fall for this remixed IMF/World Bank-style debt abyss. As if the âWestâ would have the vision, the appeal, the reach and the funds to make this scheme a real âalternativeâ.
There are zero details on how B3W will work, its priorities and where capital is coming from. B3W idealizers could do worse than learn from BRI itself, via Professor Wang Yiwei.
B3W has nothing to do with a trade/sustainable development strategy geared for the Global South. Itâs an illusionist carrot dangling over those foolish enough to buy the notion of a world divided between âour valuesâ and âautocraciesâ.
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Weâre back to the same old theme: armed with the arrogance of ignorance, the âWestâ has no idea how to understand Chinese values. Confirmation bias applies. Hence China as a âthreat to the Westâ.
Weâre the builders of choice
More ominously, B3W is yet another arm of the Great Reset.
To dig deeper into it, one could do worse than examining Building a Better World For All, by Mark Carney.
Carney is a uniquely positioned player: former governor of the Bank of England, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, adviser to PM Boris âGlobal Britainâ Johnson and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and a trustee of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Translation: a major Great Reset, New Green Deal, B3W ideologue.
His book â which should be read in tandem with Herr Schwabâs opus on Covid-19 â preaches total control on personal freedoms as well as a reset on industry and corporate funding. Carney and Schwab treat Covid-19 as the perfect âopportunityâ for the reset, whose benign, altruistic spin emphasizes a mere âregulationâ of climate, business and social relations.
This Brave New Woke World brought to you by an alliance of technocrats and bankers â from the WEF and the UN to the handlers of hologram âBidenâ â until recently seemed to be on a roll. But signs in the horizon reveal itâs far from a done deal.
Something uttered by B3W stalwart Tony Blair way back in January is quite an eye-opener: âItâs going to be a new world altogetherâŠÂ The sooner we grasp that and start to put in place the decisions [needed for a] deep impact over the coming years the better.â
So here Blair, in a Freudian slip, not only gives away the game (âdeep impact over the coming yearsâ, ânew world altogetherâ) but also reveals his exasperation: the sheep are not being corralled as fast as necessary.
Well, Tony knows thereâs always good old punishment: if you refuse the vaccine, you should remain under lockdown.
BBW, incidentally, accounts for a heterodox category of porn flics. B3W in the end may reveal itself as no more than toxic social porn.
Featured image: Oxfam activists wearing papier mache heads depicting G7 leaders perform during a protest at Swanpool Beach near Falmouth, during the G7 summit, in Cornwall, south-west England, on June 12, 2021. From left : Italy’s Prime minister Mario Draghi, Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Joe Biden, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo: AFP / Phil Noble / Pool
(The Saker)

Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist. He writes a column â The Roving Eye â for Asia Times Online, and works as an analyst for RT, Sputnik News, and Press TV. In addition, he previously worked for Al Jazeera.
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