netzerkaiser wrote:https://www.npr.org/2021/03/31/983156340/theory-that-covid-came-from-a-chinese-lab-takes-on-new-life-in-wake-of-who-repor?t=1617544503120
Of course the lab leak theory was automatically dismissed by MSM when 'bufoon' Trump espoused it. Has anyone else noticed how its starting to gain credibility again, now that 'kind uncle Joe' is in office? And this time media treat theory with respect?
The US media (and all its subservient NATO client states) have committed to going full Cold War against China over the next decade, so expect it all day every day for the next few decades.
The bottom line, and inescapable historical reality, is that China/Asia/Eurasia will be replacing the US/West as the global centre of economic power over the next decade, and there is literally nothing the US can do, except seek to spoil and delay that progress.
Rational objective assessments from economists who dare to face that reality will tell you that China's GDP (Nominal) is expected to be double that of the US by 2030, and triple that of the UK by the same date.
In terms of GDP (PPP) is passed the US some time ago.
It has been running a percentage growth of approx 10% yearly for most of the past 40 years and the momentum is still there.
Whereas if you live in the West, you will know the grim score only too well. 40 years of destructive Reagan/Thatcher Neoliberalism has decimated industry, slowed growth to a standstill, while simultaneous wage stagnation and asset inflation have distributed all liquidity up. So ever more amounts of resourceful are concentrated in ever fewer hands. Elon Musk is going to Mars.
So for the US and allies spoiling and delaying are the tactics. Hence their twin obsessions with Xinjiang and (increasingly) Ukraine (the West's constant stanning for Navalny part of same anti-Russia agenda).
Xinjiang has the 2nd biggest oilfield on the planet. There is also a pipeline being built through it to carry oil to China which will greatly support their industry's growth.
Russia too has a troubled economy, but is profoundly hydrocarbon and mineral blessed.
If you don't know about the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative), the AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank), ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), now is the time to get up to speed, because developments in those areas (and the West's desperate/doomed attempts to arrest/delay them) are dictating events in the West now.
Reactive not proactive. On the back foot and in terminal decline.
But as former Empires, they can't neither afford to admit it to themselves or their people. So denial, lies, even bloody wars.