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Old 3rd Apr 2022, 11:31
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The western strategic reliance on globalisation got scaled back since about 9-11 already. The US is -or has been depending on the shale oil production- even a net oil exporter. Wages in China have become too high for qualified personal together with increased automation and logistics troubles, IP theft and there is no more advantage to move there. Chip factories are already moving back to the US like server farms. Globalisation is slowing down if not turning around from a western perspective.
However there is one big nation that is getting more reliant on other regions and supplies and this is China itself.

Russia relies on raw materials exports for some time to come. It would need to have more hard currency friends instead of less. Military might and threats like against Scandinavia recently might not be the way to go.

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