Today there are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 32 countries, (including Taiwan, which BTW according to China is not a country..) with a combined capacity of about 390 GWe. In 2020 these provided 2553 TWh, about 10% of the world’s electricity. According to recent techno-financial studies by expert groups in the world, theContinue reading “Household common-sense and global nuclear-energy economics”
Tag Archives: Geo-Political
India-China Foreign Policy: “Strategic Restraint” is really “Strategic Dithering”.
https://www.firstpost.com/india/why-india-should-adopt-chinas-predatory-economic-tactics-in-neighbourhood-10292141.html Above article is an excellent analysis of Indian Foreign policy issue above written by Sri Sathia Moorthy. I couldn’t agree more with his trenchant views. For China, investments in IOR islands has immense geo-strategic value: it ensures China’s presence in the Indian Ocean choke-point of the Malay Straits over which the QUAD and AUKUSContinue reading “India-China Foreign Policy: “Strategic Restraint” is really “Strategic Dithering”.”
THE CORONA VIRUS AND THE “MAD-VIRUS”
When I looked at this Infograph below and read the article in the URL below this morning , I felt my mind being half blown away by the sheer implications of the data presented! https://www.burga.com/blogs/news/mobile-users-spend-over-350-million-daily-on-games-and-apps-in-2021 There is a new pandemic around the corner that is going to envelop the world long after the Coronavirus (hopefullyContinue reading “THE CORONA VIRUS AND THE “MAD-VIRUS””
The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear”
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/pakistan-saudi-arabia-rift-widens-after-oic-foreign-ministers-summit/amp_articleshow/88479783.cms The Economic Times dt. 24 December 2021 I read the above article with great interest since, after having lived and worked 25 years of my professional career in Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and travelled all across the Middle-East, I am familiar with the history and politics of its peoples and can relateContinue reading “The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear””
Coveters, Producers and Consumers in the great Geo-political war of the 21st century
Each box-cell in the above Infograph carries the chemical symbol for key minerals that are found deep inside the geological bowels of our planet earth. They are mined, exported and get consumed for various industrial purposes and in various manufacturing processes by countries around the world. Who produces the minerals most? China does… and willContinue reading “Coveters, Producers and Consumers in the great Geo-political war of the 21st century”
The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …
The Top 100 Companies of the World: The U.S. vs Everyone Else The USA is still by far the fattest capitalist-pig in the world …. miles ahead of the rest of the pigs … proving clearly the famous Orwellian truth that “All Pigs are equal but some Pigs are more equal”. All the world’s anContinue reading “The Fattest … and “more equal” Pig of them all …”
The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another
What the Infographic tells me is this: 1. All the pompous geopolitical and Geo-strategic punditry we hear and read these days from think-tanks and international-relations policy-experts about the world becoming “multipolar” is plain bunkum and politically correct eyewash meant to pull wool over the eyes of the rest of the world … make no mistakeContinue reading “The World is simply lurching from one kind of MADNESS to another”
“To live with each other is to die together…”
If Russia didn’t pipe the warmth drawn out from beneath its deep soil , European homesteads would shiver in the Cold. When I look at this chart, I am able to visualise at once on a panoramic mental screen the 500+ years of European History that came before and went after the reign of theContinue reading ““To live with each other is to die together…””
Battery-Powered world domination by China !
The world can, of course, continue to demonise China for one thing after another, every other week or month … and at all sorts of fora and through all platforms of media … But the world has got to realise that to keep going at it for long into the future it will need ChineseContinue reading “Battery-Powered world domination by China !”
“Better late than never” is not going to get any better… because, who knows, it won’t get worse?
Food for Thought: Views on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan amongst the common American population one week after the retreat from Afghanistan tells us the State of the World today in this one graphic chart below: (Source: Sober Look) It’s pretty clear, that Joe Biden only went ahead and retreated from the 20-year sham ofContinue reading ““Better late than never” is not going to get any better… because, who knows, it won’t get worse?”