Is it time to change our focus as Asia’s growth gains pace?

WhilE our government cuts millions of pounds from local authority budgets in North Yorkshire and requires councils to freeze council tax, they are, at the same time, giving billions of pounds of foreign aid to countries whose need of it is doubtful.

Over the next four years, the Department for International Development intends to give more than £1.1bn in aid to India and £1.4bn to Pakistan.

I fully support aid being given to countries that really need it having already tried to help themselves, however I have some doubts whether that is really the case with India and Pakistan. India has one of the fastest expanding economies in the world and has chosen to spend its increasing wealth on, amongst other high prestige projects, an independent nuclear deterrent, a space program and a Formula One race track. Pakistan also has nuclear weapons and is about to spend the equivalent of our four years’ aid on a fleet of Chinese submarines. Should the UK really be providing aid to countries who choose to use their own resources in this way?

Have these countries really got their priorities right? Should they not feed and house their own citizens before embarking on hugely expensive military expansion and prestige projects for their new monied classes? Our government should review all foreign aid programmes to ensure that funds only go where they are needed with the consequential savings used to help our own debt position. I have no doubt that there are those who would say that I am misrepresenting the situation – if that is the case then I think we would all like to hear their arguments.

From: Dr David Hill, World Innovation Foundation, Huddersfield.

At long last, the USA has concluded that China is a threat to the world through its growing economic might (reported in the international media – November 12). Our global institution has been saying this for nearly two decades not and it is absolutely amazing that it has taken so long for this big penny to drop.

Some 15 years ago when the West started in earnest piling billions upon billions into china because of their vast cheap labour, our institution saw this future threat for what it really was and stated this in our very first edition of our web-based Scientific Discovery newsletter. We have been vocal ever since but where this warning always fell on deaf political ears.

For China knew some four decades ago that the wars of the 21st century would not be military, but economic. The situation of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) made that very clear indeed to them. So the Chinese embarked on an adopted national and global economic “blueprint” some 30 years ago and where they still use it today. The Chinese are now in the fourth-phase of this strategy to dominate world trade. How do we know this? The creator was the former vice-premier of China for 13 years and a global member of our institution.

But what we have also been saying over these years also is that we have to adopt a global mechanism that counterbalances this ever-increasing economic might in the East. Indeed if not, your son, daughter or grandchildren will be working at some time in the future in some subservient way or another for the Chinese.

Unfortunately, it will not be nice either I can tell you. For the small minority that still thinks that China is a good thing, I can tell them that they too will eventually end up working and being controlled one way or another by their vast economic reach. People are not aware of what is going on and where European economic interests are now starting to be absorbed by China.

Added to this, one of our charity workers who has just got back from Malawi has said that China is buying up their mineral resources and economic commodities on an unprecedented scale.

The same is the case in Zambia, other African countries, the middle-east, the USA and South America we are told. With near on $4 trillion in reserves and increasing at around $800bn a year, it is a mystery why our astute politicians and their wise advisers in the USA and the West have taken so long to see what was happening.

Absolutely amazing and clearly they had their eye of the ball for two decades at least. But it may be a pointer to why the global financial meltdown actually happened, as clearly it shows that they also had their eye of the ball here also. Therefore we say again, only something rather big, can stop what is happening now. That big thing conceived by some of the greatest scientists of the 20th century is the concept of the ORE-STEM complex and its globally interlinked incubator satellites.

Something far greater than the concept of the EU and something that would work. Basically it has to do.