GLOBAL ECONOMIC CHANGES HAVE INJECTED TURMOIL INTO THE NEW WORLD ORDER, AND INSTEAD OF ORDER, THE REAL STATE OF THE WORLD IS ONE OF GLOBAL TURMOIL, ACCORDING TO ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER TO PRESIDENT CARTER, AND THE AUTHOR OF MANY BOOKS INCLUDING MOST RECENTLY, OUT OF CONTROL: GLOBAL TURMOIL ON THE EVE OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

DR. BRZEZINSKI SAID LAST WEEK DURING A BREAKFAST SPEECH IN ATLANTA THAT CHINA WILL BECOME THE THIRD LARGEST ECONOMIC POWER IN THE WORLD IN THREE YEARS.  CHINA WILL BECOME A LARGE HONG KONG-TYPE BAZAAR, HE TOLD THE AUDIENCE OF SOME 400 BUSINESS PEOPLE ATTENDING THE LATEST LECTURE IN GEORGIA TREND MAGAZINE’S SPEAKER SERIES ON CHANGE IN THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT.

ALTHOUGH HE SAID THAT CHINA WILL DO WELL IN THE NEAR FUTURE, GROWING AT A ESTIMATED 13% ANNUALLY, DR. BRZEZINSKI FORECASTED THAT NEW LEADERSHIP AND REGIONAL TENSIONS WILL SURFACE DURING THIS PERIOD.  THE POLITICAL CHANGE WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE ECONOMIC CHANGE, HE SAID, …THE EASTERN OR SOUTHEASTERN SEABOARD WILL CLASH WITH THE INLAND BECAUSE OF DISPARITIES IN INCOME AND RESULTING TENSIONS BETWEEN CLASSES.

WE DO…HAVE A MAJOR STAKE IN A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA AT THIS CRITICAL JUNCTURE, HE SAID, EVEN BEFORE CHINA’S THREAT FRIDAY TO BOYCOTT THE 1996 OLYMPIC GAMES.

WE  DON’T FOLLOW VERY CAREFULLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING OR WHAT THEY ARE SAYING, HE SAID, AND WARNED THAT CHINA HAS STRONG TRADE RELATIONSHIPS WITH IRAN, IRAQ, ALGERIA AND PAKISTAN.  THESE RELATIONSHIPS INDICATE, HE SAID, THAT THE CHINESE ‘HAVE FRIENDS THERE, AND THAT THERE EXISTS A POTENTIAL FOR THE SHIFT OF POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

DR. BRZEZINSKI, WHO CURRENTLY IS A COUNSELOR AT THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND A PROFESSOR AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, ALSO FORECASTED SUBSTANTIAL ECONOMIC CHANGE IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS.

ONLY FIVE OF 27 FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, HE PREDICTED WOULD SUCCEED ECONOMICALLY.  POLAND, REPUBLIC OF CZECH, HUNGARY, ESTONIA AND SLOVENIA ARE THE MOST LIKELY TO EMERGE AS ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS AND POLITICALLY STABLE COUNTRIES, WHICH HE HOPED WOULD BE ALLOWED TO BECOME MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, NATO AND A GROWING SPHERE OF PROSPERITY.

IN VIEW OF THE POTENTIAL INSTABILITY IN EUROPE, PARTICULARLY IN THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES NOT INCLUDED IN THE HE PROSPERITY SPHERE, IN ASIA AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, HE SAID THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE AMERICAS MUST BE ACHIEVED AS A COUNTERWEIGHT TO THE AREAS OF POTENTIAL CONFLICT AND DANGER.

HE POINTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE PENDING NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BRINGING TOGETHER THE U.S., CANADA AND MEXICO AS THE FRAME WORK FOR THE NEW ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION.  CHILE, ARGENTINA AND URUGUAY WILL BECOME EXTENSIONS OF THIS FRAMEWORK, HE SAID, ENABLING THE DEVELOPMENT OF STABLE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CLUSTERS.

IN ADDITION TO AN ILLUSTRIOUS ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL CAREER, DR. BRZEZINSKI ALSO HAS TAKEN AN ACTIVE ROLE IN PROMOTING POLAND, HIS NATIVE COUNTRY WHERE HE WAS BORN IN 1928, AS CHAIRMAN OF THE POLISH COMMISSIONERS OF THE U.S.-POLAND ACTION COMMISSION.  THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDES TOP RANKING POLISH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND BUSINESSMEN.

FOLLOWING HIS SPEECH, DR. BRZEZINSKI TOLD REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RECENTLY FORMED POLISH AMERICAN CHAMBER OF THE SOUTHEAST THAT HIS ORGANIZATION WOULD WORK WITH THEM TO PROMOTE BUSINESS LINKS BETWEEN THE SOUTHEAST AND POLAND.  CALL (404) 888-4057 FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHAMBER.