Only one thing is certain about the post-pandemic world: there is no way back to the globalized economy that preceded it. Everything else is up for grabs, including the rise of China, the fate of the US, and the survival of the EU...
On China, Trump is the first realist we have had in the Oval Office in decades. But both parties colluded in the buildup of China... The mighty malevolent China we face today was made in the USA...
Brazil posts record daily death toll as new evidence emerges to suggest the first COVID-19-linked deaths in Brazil happened 2 months earlier than previously believed...
"With regard to key issues that influence our sovereignty and safety, we should actively carry out international propaganda battles...establishing and operating overseas cultural centers and Confucius Institutes"
"The gangs operating there... have formed a parallel economy based on drug trafficking. They consider themselves at war with France and with Western civilization..."
"We have only just got past the peak (of the virus) and I think we need to see a longer period of things being sustained at this level. If we stop social distancing, we are going to see it back in three weeks."
Meanwhile, in China, Wuhan officials are embarking on a 10-day mass testing drive aiming to test every resident in the city after another cluster of cases was found...
Popular European tourist vacations like Cinque Terre in Italy and the French Riviera in southeastern France are about to have some serious competition on their hands.
Chinese leaders "believe they have a narrow window of strategic opportunity to strengthen their rule and revise the international order in their favor.."
No matter how you look at it, a new system will be created out of the ashes of the currently dying world order. The question is only: Will it benefit the oligarchy or the people?
