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By the end of 2020 Brazil’s two other major exports, oil and iron ore, also seemed to be becoming ever more prominent. In 2018 Brazilian oil provided 8 per cent of Chinese imports, up from only 2 per cent in 2014. By October 2020 Brazil was on course to be the third largest exporter of oil to China (after Russia and Saudi Arabia). Chinese imports f

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With this initiative, backed by the newly formed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China is becoming more of “a shaper and maker of globalisation”, as stated by Martin Jacques[28]. It’s not that the Chinese want to colonize other countries. Like the Portuguese in the sixteenth century[29], China isn’t interested in conquering land and submittin

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Just ten or fifteen years earlier, international companies such as Procter & Gamble or Unilever had tended to see only about 20 per cent of Brazil’s population – around 40 million people – as potential customers. As class C’s purchasing power increased, so did the market and potential sales; as many as 140 million Brazilians were now consumers.

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Back in 2014, Ukraine was desperate for cash. Two offers came in: 🔴 The IMF waved around $15 billion,but with brutal conditions: -Dismantle the ban on private land ownership -Slash pensions and fuel subsidies,your classic neoliberal austerity poiso... See more

🚨 Delhi HC has ordered a ban on Sci-Hub, Libgen, and other shadow libraries in India. https://t.co/eZFpDeDf0q