LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- World and National Mission-oriented Recovery Programs -
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- World and National Mission-oriented Recovery Programs -

Now there are several national, international mission-oriented recovery programs which should be part of this.

First of all, I've mentioned the case of Mexico, water, transport and power. We have an immediate relationship along the Arizona-New Mexico-Texas border, with northern Mexico, and with Mexico as a whole. This is one important area, a very specific area, a very immediate area, where immediate action is required, and where cooperation is crucial for us. Also, because we have a very large Hispanic population inside the United States, or people of Hispanic backgrounds. It's important for our internal security, our internal peace, and internal integrity, that that part of our population be reflected in this policy.

The big factor in world history today, is reflected by the Land-Bridge program. That, in 1988, in an address I gave on Columbus Day in Berlin, which was later broadcast on the national network here in the United States, I warned that the incoming President of the United States would be faced with the principal problem of dealing with a disintegration, which is on the way, of the Soviet system. And I expected that we would have, in the immediate future, a collapse of the Comecon system in Poland, which would be followed soon by prospects for the reunification of Germany, and the re-establishment of Berlin as the capital of a reunified Germany.

I said that this issue -- and dealing with the collapse of the Soviet power and Soviet system -- would be the primary concern of the coming Administration. In that connection -- obviously that was not what was done. Something else was done. But, in that connection, we began to propose things for Europe, and Asian development, which we started pushing in 1988.

The first was to promote the development of a power-transportation, etc. complex within Europe, which I called the European Triangle, the Productive Triangle: Paris-Vienna-Berlin, the heart of western Euopre. And that this part of Europe should be oriented toward dealing with the requirements of dealing with the collapse of the Comecon and the Soviet Union.

Later, my wife pushed this, in 1992-1993, as a Eurasian Land-Bridge development, on which I did some work. ou got this Land-Bridge -- points to map on screen] All right. What we proposed is this.

Starting from what I described as the Triangle in Europe, the Productive Triangle, is to move across certain routes across Eurasia, which would not merely be transportation routes, but would be actually combined corridors, of transportation, water management, power production, and so forth, and urban development, which would be a productive process which would link the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, in such a way, that it would be cheaper to transport goods by rail, across Asia, than it would be by ship. A fundamental change in the geographical orientation of the planet. We also extended this to include a tundra-related rail link across the Bering Straits, into the Americas, and down through the Americas.

This is now reality in part. I proposed in 1998, in conjunction with the GKO crisis, that the United States should support the creation of a Russia-China-India Strategic Triangle of cooperation. The idea being that you have three cultures which are very large, which are very powerful, relatively speaking, and which are different. They don't necessarily agree in cultural impulses. That if these three large nations can agree on a common interests of Eurasia, then we can bring together a security, a common security and development block for Eurasia. That Europe should participate in this, as a vendor, a partner, with these countries of Asia, because here you have over a billion people in China -- probably 1.2, 1.3. You have a large population, a billion or more, in India. You have Southeast Asia. This is the largest area of growth for the future of humanity before us. This is the great market for Europe. Cooperation with this part of Asia, Eurasia.

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