Asian Alliance Supplants US Empire

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/07/asian-alliance-supplants-us-empire/

By Nicolas J S Davies

While Official Washington grapples with how slowly to draw down troops in Afghanistan – and debates whether to complete the pullout from Iraq by year’s end – a new alliance of Asian states is expanding into the vacuum left by America’s decaying empire. By mid-June, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization may represent more than half the world’s people.