Monday, October 24, 2011

What is New Sovereignty?

Here is quotation from a BBC correspondent, after Chinese and Russian double veto against UN action in Syria, about the non-western countries:
In this sense Russia and China are staunch defenders of old-fashioned national sovereignty - perhaps fearful of resolutions one day being directed against them.
Now what is the new fashioned sovereignty?
Perhaps the sovereignty where all sovereignty belongs to the US at at the most US augmented by NATO.
It is so chilly to find such nuggets in the course of the day that George Orwell's 1984 prophecy does not seem to far fetched at all.