Tag Archives: China

Sleight of hand?

Posted on October 12, 2025 by borderslynn

This popped up today in Substack. Another day. Another plea for sanity amidst the storm. Another head above the parapet. BREAKING: Trump’s Tariff Shock EXPOSED — The $1 Billion Crypto Heist They Don’t Want You to See Minutes before Trump … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged bitcoin, China, counter threats, cryptocurrency, destabilising trade, gambling, insider trading, opportunity, stock market, tariffs, threats | Leave a comment

Always watch the supply chain for rare earth magnets, the pulse of vital industries globally

Posted on August 25, 2025 by borderslynn

China dictates access to vital rare earth magnets. Here is a reproduced piece about this year’s issues with supply to vital industries:

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, conflict, consumer electronics, deal making, global industries, rare earth magnets, supply chain, war, weapons | Leave a comment

A world not reliant on the dollar

Posted on August 15, 2024 by borderslynn

I wrote a blog, 8 years ago, trying to understand the impact of the Romans on our evolving monetary, military and trading history. https://borderslynn.com/2017/07/16/from-roman-empire-to-the-new-world Now I’ve reached the modern day, and I’m now asking about the mysteries of the global … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, cheap imports, China, cooperation, debt, offshored cheap labour, opportunities, politics, Roman Empire, rumour mill, sanctions, securities, semantics, stock exchange, tariffs, threats, trade, treasury bonds, US Dollar, value for money, world economy | Leave a comment

Globalization Casualties

Posted on August 3, 2024 by borderslynn

I’m reading ‘Paper Soldiers: How weaponization of the dollar changed the world’ by Saleha Mohsin. I am most grateful to the author, for it has taken me until now to learn the history behind what led to Globalization being caused … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 2008 financial crisis, authoritarian control, banks, capitalism, China, corporates, developing nations, dollar, economy, england, free trade, globalization, high risk, industrialization, manufacturing, mining, open borders, poverty, Scottish Borders, strong dollar, toxic loans, Treasury, UK, USA, wealth | Leave a comment

Double use oil trucks: food contamination

Posted on July 21, 2024 by borderslynn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cml2kr9wkdzo Transporting cooking oil in contaminated fuel trucks was said to have been so widespread it was considered an “open secret” in the industry, according to one driver quoted by the newspaper. We require strict regulation throughout the world for … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, consumer harm, contamination, corporate fraud, food chain, food industry, food oil, food safety, food scandals, food security, fuel oil, human health | Leave a comment

Military Expansion and pre-meditated Genocide

Posted on December 28, 2023 by borderslynn

I recently read in the World Atlas that before the region now known as China, it was the Qing dynasty (1636 to 1912) in power and they constantly used military strength to expand over lands around them with a dream … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, control, empires, fear as a weapon, genocide, Han, military expansion, Mongols, murder of innocents, occupation, oppression, psychological warfare, Qing dynasty, resistance, subjugation, terrorist label, Uyghurs | Leave a comment

Nuclear Reactors: emerging countries

Posted on August 13, 2023 by borderslynn

Guess who is helping fund and provide the construction design and build for countries with no previous experience? State-owned nuclear companies in Russia and China have taken the lead in offering nuclear power plants to emerging countries, usually with finance … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, emerging countries, expansion or creation of electric grid, expertise, full package provided, naivete, nuclear reactors built, Russia, skills | Leave a comment

Wool

Posted on December 27, 2021 by borderslynn

Killing a sheep and cutting off its skin to provide clothing is obviously a skill humans have been honing for thousands of years, since we skinned many animals to clothe us, and ate the meat, used the bones to create … Continue reading →

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Generic Drug Supply and Raw Materials Supply

Posted on April 28, 2021 by borderslynn

In March 2021, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, announced the UK was acquiring 10m doses from the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and the key source of doses for Covax, a vaccine-sharing agreement on which poor and middle-income countries are relying. … Continue reading →