Outside View: Facing Western supremacy.

Byline: M.D. NALAPAT

NEW DELHI, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The foreign ministers of the three giants of the Asian landmass -- Russia, China and India -- will meet Feb. 14 in New Delhi to advance an old proposal for a Trilateral Global Alliance that would effectively exclude the West from a position of superiority in Asia, before achieving the same purpose in Africa and South America.

Although at present only a gleam in the eye of geopoliticians, the TGA has made enough progress in the past two years to indicate that within the next three, a framework agreement could be signed by the three heads of government that would codify the principles and objectives of this partnership aimed at limiting Western power.

It is interesting to note that European powers all won special advantages in the rest of the world not by peaceful cooperation, but by conquest. This is perhaps the reason why soldiers, sailors and airmen play a much bigger role in Western "diplomacy" than diplomats themselves.

Australia, for example, has now joined hands with New Zealand in sending armed troops to small island countries near them, in order to enforce their will over the peoples there. So dominating is Australia that even the present Timorese leadership -- the recipient of huge funds and other aid from Canberra in its long battle against Indonesia -- has now sought to distance itself from a country that seems determined to rule the territory by the gun.

In Africa, there have been dozens of cases of armed intervention by France, always to protect the local, France-dominated elites from accountability and loss of power. In Venezuela, it is no secret that Washington repeated its method of dealing with former President Salvador Allende in Chile -- seeking to use local partners to force the ouster of President Hugo Chavez, who seeks to dilute the influence of Europeanist elites that for centuries have drained almost 90 percent of the wealth of the continent while accounting for less than 10 percent of the population.

Similarly, in Iraq, U.S. and British forces routinely arrest even ministers in the elected government of Iraq and diplomats who should be protected from such arbitrary action according to international law and practice. The Western world has, for the past five centuries up to the present, relied on tooth and claw to create and retain its supremacy. This state of affairs is unacceptable to Moscow and Beijing, and in time, possibly to New Delhi as well.