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Yesterday’s news is today’s history. Some seemingly insignificant events have inadvertently changed our world.
This past weekend was an ordinary weekend from a grand historical perspective. But in this ordinary weekend, we have to guard against some unusual new trends.
Completely personal point of view, seven new trends.
New trend 1: China will no longer be the world’s largest population.
This is not nonsense. A report from the United Nations, world population outlook 2022, was released on world population day on July 11.
Two key data:
By November 15 this year, the total world population will exceed 8.5 billion;
By next year, India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country.
If you are right, this is the first time in thousands of years that China has lost the title of the world’s most populous country.
Population was previously considered a burden, but in the future, it is more a resource and wealth. The world is really going to change. Countries with a soaring population are worried about stability, and countries with an aging population are more worried about the future.
Alas, Chinese men and women, come on!
New trend 2: all Ukrainians can obtain Russian nationality.
This is not my nonsense. It is Putin’s presidential decree on July 11. All Ukrainian residents will be able to obtain Russian citizenship easily.
Previously, the simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship was only applicable to residents of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and zaporoje States, but now it has been extended to all Ukrainians.
Ukraine deplores: This is a serious violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and a violation of the norms and principles of international law.
But the key is now there are international norms and principles?
I don’t know. What I see more is the fight for land and population, as well as the blood and tears behind the fight.
Third, Putin called to discuss how to deal with Lithuania.
To whom?
Call president Lukashenko of Belarus, his closest ally.
Putin should be very angry. Russia’s ultimatum seems to have no effect, and the EU’s persuasion is just a play. Lithuania is still overweight. On July 11, the day he called, Lithuania banned a new batch of Russian goods, including cement, wood, alcohol and so on, from passing through the territory of Lithuania to Kaliningrad.
What should I do?
It seems that Putin is going to fight. Before fighting, he will coordinate his position with Belarus.
Kaliningrad governor alejanov’s proposal: comprehensively prohibit the transportation of goods between Russia and the Baltic countries, including the transit goods of third countries.
Is it really restricted to goods prohibition? Will it really not cause new military friction? I don’t know, but there’s always a bad feeling.
Oh, and for Germans, Russia is really starting to die in the name of maintenance.
Although it is still a hot summer, for Germans, this winter may be particularly cold.
New trend 4: macron welcomes the headache of “Uber gate”.
Leaks happen every day. But for macron, this is a particularly headache.
Because the “Uber document” leaked this weekend shows that macron and many other leaders have helped Uber to seek benefits.
Some details of the disclosure are very interesting. For example, macron is particularly “keen” to help Uber, and even revealed to Uber that he had reached a secret “deal” with the French cabinet.
So that the person in charge of Uber sighed: France loves us.
With such details of nose and eyes, macron jumped into the Seine River and probably couldn’t wash it clearly. The black hole in political and business relations is waiting for European politicians.
Fifth, Japan has taken another important step towards amending the constitution.
Perhaps Abe did not expect that his tragic assassination on the street has become an important thrust for some politicians to speed up Japan’s constitutional amendment. In the Senate election on July 11, a large number of sympathy votes made the ruling coalition win more than two-thirds of the seats.
Two thirds is crucial. According to the regulations, Japan’s constitutional amendment requires the approval of two-thirds of the two houses of Congress and the support of the majority of voters in the referendum.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to promote the constitutional amendment plan after the election victory. Once the constitution is amended, it means that Japan abandons the peace constitution.
Is this really good for Japan?
On July 11, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, “the issue of Japan’s constitutional amendment has received great attention from the international community and its Asian neighbors. We hope that Japan will seriously learn historical lessons, adhere to the path of peaceful development, and win the trust of its Asian neighbors and the international community with practical actions.”
We have to be vigilant about the trend of Japan.
New trend 6: Sri Lanka has really become a tear on the Indian Ocean.
The prime minister resigned, the president resigned, the country was completely bankrupt, and people were struggling in hunger and confusion.
This matter has been said a lot in the past, so I won’t say more.
But it’s hard to avoid feeling that an island country with incomparably beautiful scenery and an economy that was once prosperous collapsed completely, which made people particularly shocked, heartbroken and cold.
National governance is not easy to succeed. The most unlucky consequence of tossing is definitely the common people.
New trend 7: the United States dispatched unmanned ships in the Pacific Rim military exercise.
For the first time in history, four American experimental unmanned surface ships participated in the 2022 circum Pacific military exercise.
Seeing that Jeremiah Daley, the commander of the first division of the U.S. unmanned surface ships, said to the outside world that the purpose of establishing this first division is two: first, to establish an unmanned surface ship project for the fleet in the future plan of the Ministry of defense; Second, find the right combination of sensors and systems, so that unmanned and manned ships can become partners in cooperative operations, and apply to our navy and the navies of other countries participating in the circum Pacific military exercises.
In other words, after unmanned aerial vehicles have fully demonstrated their battlefield strength, unmanned ships are emerging, and will certainly be one of the dominant forces in the battlefield in the future.
Human military technology is undergoing major changes. There is no doubt that the first unmanned warship of the US military will be deployed in the Asia Pacific region.
Who is the main target?
you’ll see.
There are many new trends. For example, just these days:
After Abe was assassinated, the subtle wording between China and Japan is worth experiencing in detail;
China and Australia finally began to meet on the ice, but the game continued;
After many communications between China and the United States, an important call is coming;
Recently, Russia and Kazakhstan have been struggling, and they always feel that something will happen;
Also, Biden will go to the Middle East immediately. The gratitude and resentment of the Middle East, I bet, old Biden, who often reads the manuscript incorrectly, must be more unreasonable and more chaotic
Some of the seven new trends have nothing to do with China, and some are happening around China, which will inevitably affect China’s interests. It also reminds us that this is not a peaceful world. The struggle is fierce in multiple dimensions, and we don’t have to avoid it. Some forces with ulterior motives have different views on China
Certainly not the eyes of admiration. Among them, there is no lack of envy, jealousy and hatred, and sometimes it is even more direct.
But this is the reality that we must face. In the past few days, some people are laughing and more people are suffering. We must seriously learn from the profound lessons. We can’t take lightly the enlightenment and threats in some trends.
In the competition between big countries, if you don’t advance, you will fall back. For example, some countries in the world have tossed and tossed, which is national luck and hope. China must be prepared for danger in times of peace, and there can be no mistake!