July 2-While the Obama Administration is rapidly pushing the world toward nuclear war in Europe and in Asia, the leaders of China and Russia have agreed to redouble their efforts-and their partnership- in order to offer to the world the possibility of a new directionality toward peace and development and away from the present path toward war. Immediately following the summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is now in the process of adding India and Pakistan to its membership, and represents around half of the world's population, the meeting in Beijing of the two presidents represents an absolutely ground-breaking development. The Joint Declaration issued by the two presidents takes aim at the underlying problem: the role adopted by the United States, during the successive presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to act as the "Roman Legion" for the crisis-ridden and collapsing British trans-Atlantic London/Wall Street System, a role which has propelled the United States and the NATO alliance into a desperate drive to assert their will and dominance everywhere in the world. This grave threat has been further enhanced by the mental instability of a Barack Obama who views his own role as maintaining the sadistic geopolitical position of the United States as the world's sole remaining "superpower." In the Joint Declaration, Russia and China voiced great concern over the increasingly "negative factors" affecting the global strategic stability. "Some countries and military-political alliances seek decisive advantage in military and relevant technology," the statement reads, "so as to serve their own interests through the use, or threatened use of force in international affairs," the statement says. "Such a policy has resulted in an out-of-control growth of military power and has shaken the global strategic stability system."