Präsident Xi Jinping kündigte am 6. August an, daß China im Jahr 2021 insgesamt zwei Milliarden COVID-19-Impfstoffe exportieren werde. Der massive Ausbau der Produktionskapazitäten in diesem Jahr habe es China ermöglicht, bisher zwischen 600 und 750 Millionen Dosen zu exportieren und gleichzeitig über 1,7 Milliarden Dosen innerhalb Chinas zu verimpfen. Die bisherige Produktionsbilanz von Sinovac […]
Has the situation in Afghanistan become hopeless? Are the Chinese really committing genocide against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province? If your only source is the mainstream news, government spokesmen and Congressmen, you may have fallen for the latest lies designed to promote more endless wars. Here’s the latest on the cover-ups and lies in the […]
Rosatom To Build More Floating NPPs— Aug. 7 (EIRNS)–Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom is committed to building four new floating nuclear power stations over the next six years, in order to power mining ventures in Siberia’s far northeastern tip. The new waterborne facilities will be similar to the Akademik Lomonosov, the audacious floating nuclear plant […]
Blinken Attacks China; Wang Yi Says None of the ASEAN Nations Agree— Aug. 7 (EIRNS)–The final conference of the week of ASEAN meetings this week, the East Asia Summit Ministerial, involved a larger group in the Asia-Pacific region, including the United States, Japan and Australia. U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, like the skunk who came […]
Central Asian Heads of State Meet in Turkmenistan on Energy, Transit Corridors and Fighting the Pandemic – Aug. 6 (EIRNS)–Today the Third Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia was held in Turkmenistan, at the Caspian Sea resort town of Avaza, bringing together the presidents of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrghizstan, […]
China Announces Two Billion COVID-19 Vaccines to Be Exported in 2021— Aug. 6 (EIRNS)–President Xi Jinping announced today that China will export two billion COVID-19 vaccines in 2021. The massive expansion of production capacity this year has allowed China to export between 600 to 750 million doses so far, while also applying over 1.7 billion […]
Afghanistan: the Role of the Neighboring Countries in Development— Aug. 5, 2021 (EIRNS) – During a Schiller Institute conference July 31, Prof. Pino Arlacchi, the former head of the United Nations Office of Drug Control who negotiated near-elimination of Afghan opium production with the Taliban 20 years ago, noted that immediately neighboring countries should play […]
World Health Organization: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout To Accelerate in Africa— Aug. 5, 2021 (EIRNS) – A World Health Organization article published in Consortium News July 30 reports on the 520 million vaccine doses that will be shipped to Africa by the end of 2021 by COVAX. Can they be administered in that 4-plus-month time frame […]
Fed Looks Like Losing Control of Interbank Lending, as in September 2019— Aug. 5, 2021 (EIRNS) – A new Standing Repo Facility has been created by the Federal Reserve with an authorization of $500 billion subject to unlimited increase by Fed chair Jerome Powell. The Fed announced the facility July 28 and activated its operation […]
The Fed shows it has learned nothing from history, as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announces a new “Standing Repo Facility,” in a desperate attempt to avoid nightly waves of bank defaults. This continues 50 years of insane monetary policy. On August 15th, 1971 the Bretton Woods System was ended, creating a floating exchange system, and beginning our […]