“The global community is experiencing “the emergence of a new Era of Mankind, an Era of Peaceful Cooperation based on the rapid economic development of each and every nation on the planet,” stated Helga Zepp-LaRouche, a German political activist, the widow of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche and the founder of the Schiller Institute. The results of the two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Tianjin, China, coupled with the September 3 commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in the Pacific in the Second World War in Beijing, have ushered in that new era. The Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum, running from September 3-6, will deepen the process; as will the September 8 BRICS video-conference summit called on short notice by Brazilian President Lula de Silva, who holds the 2025 Presidency of the BRICS, to discuss a coordinated response to US President Donald John Trump’s tariff warfare.

The expanded SCO and BRICS now represent a total of 38 countries (eight of them are in both groupings), whose combined population is about six billion people or 75% of Mankind’s total population of eight billion. They have proclaimed an end to 500 years of colonial exploitation, currently run by the financial centres of London and Wall Street, and the intention of that Global Majority to create a “path of peaceful development, and join hands with the rest of the world to build a community with a shared future for humanity“, as Chinese President Xi Jinping stated in his brief address to the 80th anniversary commemoration. “Humanity rises and falls together,” added Xi.

President Xi presented his Global Governance Initiative at the SCO meeting as a policy approach to guide this forward motion, while Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin stressed its significance. Summarising his evaluation of where things stand, he stated: “I believe they are extremely positive. The documents that have been adopted by all participants look to the future. In this context, I would like to point out China’s Global Governance Initiative. I believe that it has been advanced at the right time.” President Putin further said: “More importantly, this initiative is aimed at promoting positive sentiments between the countries that attended the summit in China and our potential partners among the countries that are not willing today to proclaim their readiness for this partnership.“

Zepp-LaRouche emphasised that “this emerging New International Economic Order represents a solution for the crises of war and underdevelopment, including for the US and Europe”. She stressed that these were precisely the policies which, for over 50 years, she and the LaRouche Movement have been fighting for, policies designed by her husband, Lyndon LaRouche.

What will such a new international security and development architecture look like? Kirill Dmitriev, the Special Envoy of President Putin who played an important role in the August 15 summit between the Russian President and his US counterpart Trump in Anchorage, Alaska, told Zvezda television on September 2: “Certainly, Russia is eyeing the opportunity of joint Russia-China-US projects, including in the Arctic region, specifically in the energy sector also. We exactly see that projects should not be divided there into Russian-Chinese or Russian-US.” He added: “We see joint investments are possible, including for Chinese and American investors, into joint projects, including in hydrocarbon projects in the Arctic.“

Such joint projects will be at the centre of the discussion at Vladivostok, including the proposal to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait to unite Russia and the US with a high-speed railway network. Another topic will be the agreement signed at the SCO meeting between Russia, Mongolia and China to build the mammoth Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline which, as RT characterised it, will be a “seismic redirection” in global energy and geopolitics. The Yamal gas fields, which are the northern source feeding the pipeline lying on a Russian peninsula in the Arctic Ocean, directly on the Northern Sea Route which Russia and China are cooperating on developing.

International Peace Coalition published this article on September 4, 2025.

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