New Eurasia: A New Vision for the Third Millennium

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/07/bush.putin/index.html

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (CNN) -- U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Thursday at the G8 summit in Germany to cooperate on missile-defense systems, apparently cooling tensions between the two leaders.

"We have an understanding about common threats, but we have differences. The difference is the ways and means in which we can overcome these threats," Putin told reporters after a one-on-one meeting with Bush.
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Last weekend, Putin warned that his country could aim nuclear weapons at European targets unless Washington abandoned the missile-system proposal.

"They're [Russians] not a military threat," Bush told reporters Thursday. "They're not what we should be hyperventilating about. What we ought to be doing is figuring out ways to work together."

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http://www.alternet.org/story/70292/

When the U.S. Air Force Southern Command's 10-year usage rights for Ecuador's Manta air base expire in 2009, it can expect to be evicted in favor of China.