I came back to the United States on July 15, 2021 due to the fact that Vietnam has imposed its strictest lockdown measures ever in regards to containing the covid19 pandemic. From my friends who are there currently they are telling me that the mandate is so strict that even delivery drivers who are delivering things other than food will get fined severely. When I left the lockdown was in a phase where not even restaurants were allowed to do takeaway or deliveries. It’s not just Vietnam however my friends in who live in other parts of Southeast Asia are telling me that the lockdowns are worse in the summer of 2021 than they were anytime in 2020.
My opinion on these lockdowns is this: they need to demand vaccines and make a few concessions on trade. There is no point in preventing the inevitable. Operative word being INEVITABLE. The inevitable being that America and China have the leverage now. But there is a reason for this. The main beneficiaries of covid19 are the United States and China. The U.S. and China want to have better trade leverage with Southeast Asia, so basically the vaccines are being held hostage by the Americans and Chinese as a way to get the Southeast Asians in line to renegotiate trade. Obviously the media won’t tell you this, but considering how the pandemic played out right in the middle of the U.S.-China Trade War, the leverage for trade is the only reason why Southeast Asia isn’t getting these vaccines thus being the reason they aren’t open yet. Basically they can’t open up the way America and China did as that would overload their medical infrastructure. Mind you the medical infrastructure in Southeast Asia is no where near as robust as it is in China and America. Basically when it comes to manufacturing Southeast Asia has complete leverage over the United States, but the vaccine gives the US way more leverage than manufacturing does for Southeast Asia.
For starters this is more of a cold-war between China and America. Southeast Asia is nothing more than a pawn for them. This is nothing like the US-Soviet cold-war. Back then the big battle wasn’t even communism, it was about about nuclear energy and how it would be implemented. The United States wanted nuclear energy to be weapon-centric whereas the Soviets wanted it to be about actually powering the world with nuclear energy. The reason the United States won was because people realized that nuclear reactors made in the 20th century were not without faults. However nuclear reactors made in the 21st century are actually safe, but the “memory” or Chernobyl will be ingrained in people and the concept of total nuclear energy powering the world will not come into fruition. The reason for this is simple. America wants to stay in the Middle East, not even for the oil, but to maintain “order;” whatever that means.
The new cold-war America is having with China is based solely on bio-weapons. The reason for this is because the citizens of the United States no longer support bombing or something with an “extravagant” sighting, so in order to sucker in the American Sheeple they must find more innovative ways to wage war. They need to do this to maintain public support for the US military and law enforcement, which let’s be real here, even the most “patriotic” of Americans are resenting right now. Basically the US government and the military industrial complex are waging a propaganda campaign to make Americans supportive of “action” against the Chinese. People can’t support bombing, but they will support the use of viruses, because simply put, viruses are invisible, bombs are not, you can feel guilty about bombs, but a virus is invisible.
Now the question being asked is why come America and China are using Southeast Asia as pawns? The answer is simple. The governments in Southeast Asia have complete control over their citizens and their citizens will comply with almost every government directive.