Ode to a dying year, 2021

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By Owei Lakemfa

Many parts of the universe entered 2021 with the contentment that President Donald Trump, the American billionaire whose  many crooked business deals  also saw him to the White House, was leaving in 20 days.

His welcome departure, in reality, had no fundamental effect in American policies across the world. Joe Biden, who replaced him, only had a different style, but maintained virtually the same policies, including its partisan involvement in the unending wars in places like Yemen and Syria. In fact, in some cases, such as the unilateral imposition of bullish sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela, Uncle Joe simply piled more.

In the cat-and-mouse game between America and China, the former under Trump, on January 13, banned all cotton and tomato products from China’s Xinjiang region on the basis that they were produced through forced labour. The America-China 2021 Games are closing under Biden with his signing the Uyghur Forced Labour…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper