Middle East will become less important as the renewables make road into mainstream. Granted, this won't happen in 2021. Watch those cobalt reserves in Africa, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2021, @01:10PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday January 01 2021, @01:10PM (#1093550)
The Chinese interest in Africa is one reason I'm predicting that, but there's also a lot of unrest lately - Zimbabwe back into inflation, Sudan, Uganda, the Tigray situation. That unrest can easily become a pretext for US intervention.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2021, @02:34AM (1 child)
By chance, are you Chinese? [fmprc.gov.cn]
Middle East will become less important as the renewables make road into mainstream. Granted, this won't happen in 2021.
Watch those cobalt reserves in Africa, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2021, @01:10PM
The Chinese interest in Africa is one reason I'm predicting that, but there's also a lot of unrest lately - Zimbabwe back into inflation, Sudan, Uganda, the Tigray situation. That unrest can easily become a pretext for US intervention.