Bilateral Diplomacy and hegemony

Bilaterla diplomacy in the early 20th century often degenerates into a system of conspiracy between states with a hidden agenda of hegemony against other opposition. It was a common practice that led to WW1 and WW2 and form part of the old dip[lomacy that led to nearly 50 years of war and conflict in the European modern civil war arena and created a standard political culture that led to the Suez Canal war and left a legacy of Middle East conflicts and tensions that spilt into the 21st century . The 2003 Second Iraq War was a result of bilateral diplomacy arriving at a common national interest to overthrow Saddam Hussein and it proved a great success  as well as profitable for some Western countries and investment banks .
After WW2 bilateral diplomacy (see Behind Closed Doors) was used to carve up Europe and led to 50 years of Cold War or  seen by some academics as a Third World War fought out by proxies from South America to Africa and Vietnam, Asia . It is now being used to destabilise the Middle East by the US and Israel over land and water, to subjugate the fragile new Iraqi government and mount an annexation of Afghnistan  for its unexploited oil and other mineral resources vital to Western political economy......the last colonial frontier before it confronts China in the north at the mountain panhandle pass . In the Indian Ocean through a secret bilateral diplomacy Britain ceded to the US the Islands of Diego Garcia for a massive US air and naval base build up as part of its triangular operational theatre from the Horn of Africa-----the vital Suez Canal--Red Sea passage---Iraqi oil supply----future Afghan natural resources supply------all these has to be protected by the huge US naval and air base in the 21st century, and to stop China's strategic expansion into the African continent . China has already signed  a number of bilateral treaties with individual sovereign African states and dispensing a soft power public diplomacy approach by building  roads, irrigation projects, schools, hospitals,airports etc . A vigorous US-Indian bilateral treaty and diplomacy has to be entertained as the theatre sits right in front of India which may feel very uncomfortable  at the massive US presence in the middle of the Indian Ocean enroaching within her sphere of influence.
International relations in the 21st century will have to adjust to these changes in scenario as China's new economic power enables her to expand into areas traditionall yseen as a Western monopoly and may lead to a  widening of war and conflict between East and West. It seems that the West needs wars, big or small, for its political economy to function and to do this a wave of bilateral diplomacy has to be conducted so as to make US presence in the region less intimidating .

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