China’s Xi visit, major game changer: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Mike Billington, a member of the Executive Intelligence Review in Leesburg, to discuss the remarks made by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, slamming the US-led coalition formed with the alleged aim of targeting terrorists in the Middle East, saying Washington has never been honest about its motives.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Let’s start off with the significance of what has taken place today with at least I believe 17 different agreements being inked in Tehran with the Chinese delegation - the significance of all of this as for as Iran-China ties?

Billington: Well I think the two issues, the question of the Chinese visit and the question of Ayatollah [Khamenei’s] comments about Obama’s duplicity in his so-called war on terrorism are directly connected. China of course has had very close relations with Iran all along despite having to abide by certain sanctions, so they are going to expend relations now but it is most important that they visited Saudi Arabia first who also sells most of its oil to the Chinese and has China as its major trade representative.

So it is clear although this is not in the public news, it is clear that what Xi Jinping has done in the context of the new paradigm put together by China and the BRICS countries opposed to the destructive policy and the financial collapse now sweeping the Western world, that Xi Jinping is basically telling the Saudis and the Wahhabi crowd that they cannot continue the British instigation of permanent Sunni Shia warfare and attacks on Iran, that they have to abandon the war policy of Obama and the British and go towards collaboration with all the nations of the Middle East on real development, development that is actually being put forward by the Chinese and their collaborators in the BRICS nations.

So this is a major game changer. It is a very important intervention by Xi Jinping and on the other issue of America’s falseness on the issue of terrorism. Mr. Putin has intervened very forcefully in Syria to expose the fact that Ayatollah Khamenei is exactly right that Obama was not fighting terrorism but that as in fact our own military leadership, the head of our Defense Intelligence Agency General Michael Flynn has exposed precisely what Ayatollah [Khamenei] said which was that Obama in Libya and in Syria are not in the least bit interest that are fighting terrorism. In fact his explicit policy has been to ally with terrorist organizations in order to achieve his objective which is regime change, regime change against secular leaders, as Bush did against Saddam Hussein and as Obama has with Gaddafi and is trying to do with Assad to basically leave countries in the hands of warring terrorist factions spurring the Sunni Shia and permanent warfare policy, treating the Middle East as a cockpit for their intended confrontation and war with Russia and even with China.

So what Putin and Xi Jinping have done is crucial. This is what Mr. LaRouche has identified as the new paradigm capable of reversing the current dissent in the global economic chaos and probable world war.  

Press TV: Well let’s look at some of what you have talked about. Looking at your country, the United States, at this point in time with the …, well the sanctions were supposed to be removed and right after that of course they tried to or they have tried to implement more sanctions against Iran. It seems from Washington’s perspective as for as the American people, that one would think after all of that pressure that United States had put on Iran, that as a matter of fact it would try to change the type of relationship it would have with Iran because it will also be obviously quite beneficial for the United States and other Western states but instead we continue to see harassment and a sort of belligerent type of behavior and now we see Iran looking Eastwards as for as expansion of relations. Why would the United States do it to themselves? Let’s look at that aspect of it.

Billington: You have divisions in the United States, it is not uniformed. John Kerry, as I am sure you know, has worked very closely with Lavrov in Russia, that the Obama administration is not uniformed and Obama himself who answers only to Wall Street did go along with the important agreements with Iran but you see the pressure from the British faction, you might say, in the United States, the people directed from Wall Street, to not allow an actual peaceful evolution with Iran and you cannot expect that from Obama.

As long as we have Obama in power and as long as we have the complete collapse of the European and American financial system which is now going full steam since January 1st and will only be reversed if we can implement a Glass–Steagall reformation of that system which won’t happen under Obama or any of these idiot Republicans who are running for office.

So this is going to require a revolutionary change in the United States and the model to how to proceed with that is made very, very clear by both Putin and Xi Jinping on the new paradigm, a paradigm of world development based on the collaboration of cultures, of the Confucian culture, of the Baghdad caliphate culture, of the Western Christian Renaissance culture. These cultures which have been lost in the West under the gun of this British imperial policy now dominating the United States but the division is there, the new paradigm is very clear.

What Xi Jinping is doing with Iran as his speech in Egypt, as I hope you have reported on his very dramatic speech to the Arab League in Egypt, proposing that the Silk Road, the process of real development as a basis for peace be carried into the Middle East and this is the only basis on which these hideous wars throughout Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian issue itself, the only way this is going to be resolved is through bringing this concept, this Silk Road development concept into the Middle East in full which is what Mr. and Mrs. LaRouche have been promoting forcefully as hard as we can amongst our allies in the United States and around the world as the only way we are going to prevent the Middle East disaster from sparking off, as I said before a world war crisis confrontation with Russia and China.

It is in our hands. We can do it. It is a dangerous, dangerous situation but these trips, Putin’s intervention and now Xi Jinping’s very forceful intervention give us hope that we can achieve what has to be achieved before going to prevent this disaster.

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