The Dragon Rises

 If I had a terrible flu, knew it was highly contagious but turned up at the office anyway then infected everyone.

The next week everyone apart from me is off work sick, coughing and sneezing and there is me, in the office getting loads of overtime off the back of everyone I have infected! 

There is the Chinese economy!! 

Industrial production alone  in China leapt 6.9 per cent in September — its highest level this year and the same rate as in December before the coronavirus outbreak.... as the rest of the world’s economy withers China’s grows.

Economic figures read that china’s economy is the only one in the world that will make a full recovery from the Covid virus — growing by 2 per cent while America’s falls by 5 per cent, the eurozone by 8 per cent and Britain by 10 per cent. The chief economist of the World Bank advises China is on track to become the world’s biggest economy by 2030. 

April this year I wrote the following on social media ...

“I don’t subscribe (at least not yet) to the theory that China released the Coronavirus onto the world as a biological weapon but strategically speaking if they did then it will be the biggest coup since Troy opened its gates and said “what a lovely big wooden horse”.... I have been recently reading about The Belt and Road Initiative which is a global development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 involving infrastructure development and investments in nearly 70 countries and international organizations in Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Within this program China provided loans to developing nations with mines & ports as collateral.

Now Covid19 will hinder those nations ability to repay the debt so then China will seize mines & ports globally in lieu of payment.

These mines & ports also serve as strategic military assets.  So with this is mind, it would certainly look as if when the world economy crashes China will have the most to gain and as such has won a “cold war” without a bullet being fired .... just by opening a Pandora’s box then cashing it’s chips in on a pre-played game of monopoly! 

Too far fetched to believe? Perhaps ... or not”

Now that we are almost into November the only comment I would add that that above posting from April would be that if you are in a war, stumble then mis-fire a round of ammunition which then goes and kills the enemy leading to a win .... would this not be counted as a victory?  

China history shows that it has never shied away from sacrificing its people for the good of its country, soon, in the not too distant future when China, the birth place of Covid, becomes THE dominant world power it will look back at these days of Covid as the game changer.