Accounting for a third of the world’s total industrial capacity, this is how COVID lockdowns in China disrupted the supply chains globally.
The dynamic between the US and Saudi Arabia seems to be dramatically changing. The petrodollar is showing cracks in what seemed to be an impregnable fortress as Saudi Arabia is now considering accepting the Yuan for Chinese oil sales instead of the dollar.
After 13 Chinese jets recently breached Taiwan airspace, Chinese authorities responded by saying “No One & No Force” could stop it from taking Taiwan if it wanted to.
Numerous parents who were hesitant to vaccinate their children have been pressured to do so. But the consequences of this action seem to be expressing itself as children in China are being diagnosed with leukemia after taking Chinese vaccines.
The US invested upwards of $200 million on labs in Ukraine conducting dangerous biological activities. On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that these US-funded biological facilities in Ukraine were performing research with bat coronavirus samples.
The world order seems to be changing dramatically following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Dr Bharat Karnad, emeritus professor of national security studies at the Centre for Policy Research, the New Delhi think-tank, believes the global political situation is in a flux, thereby impacting the strategic and domestic politics
Chinese scientists have developed salt-tolerant strains of seawater rice that may be grown in coastal areas where crops are presently tough to cultivate. The news arrives as China works to safeguard local food and energy supplies in the face of geopolitical conflicts.
“The Asia-Pacific is a promising land for cooperation and development, not a chessboard for geopolitical contest,” said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi raising the question why exactly is the US trying to create another NATO in the region?
The US will penalize any country that violates its sanctions, albeit it will not go after China because it is fearful of what an escalation would look like. Knowing this full well China is buying 700K barrels of Iranian oil every single day, as they violate US sanctions.
