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@XyphonXero
From GPAS__2021 pdf
Pension (mandated savings) funds vs GDP ratio for 2021
Five Eyes/Five Passport Group,
Australia, $2,333 billion, 174.8% (CPTPP member)
Canada, $3,080 billion, 192.5% (CPTPP member)
United Kingdom, $3,564 billion, 135.1% (near CPTPP member)
United States, $32,567 billion, 156.5%
(I don't have data for NZ)
Notice the Five Eyes group has similar pension assets to GDP ratio results
EU
Finland, $279 billion, 104.3%
France, $166 billion, 6.5%
Germany, $548 billion, 14.5%
Italy, $231 billion, 12.5% <----- PIIGS
Netherlands, $1,900 billion, 214.4%,
Ireland, $197 billion, 49.4% <----- PIIGS
Spain, $44 billion, 3.6% <----- PIIGS
The EU lacks strategic savings coordination.
Non-EU, Europe
Switzerland, $1,163 billion, 164.3%
North America
Mexico, $259 billion, 24.9%
South America
Brazil, $195 billion,14.3%
Chile, $243 billion, 99.2% (CPTPP member)
East Asia, South East Asia
China, $285 billion, 1.9%
Hong Kong, $199 billion, 58.3%
Japan, $3,613 billion, 73.6% (CPTPP member)
South Korea, $968 billion, 61.0%
Malaysia, $279 billion, 83.0% (CPTPP member)
South-Central Asia
India, $184 billion, 7.1%
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@XyphonXero For the record, I didn't support Chyna's entry into WTO with loophole promises i.e. don't assume.
Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein
Date: January 19, 1992 <---- note the year.
From AP NEWS
NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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From 1992, it was Saudi Arabia's pressure to remove Saddam, hence US energy independence is important. Saudi Arabia was an important player to lower oil prices that gimped USSR's energy exports. The green movement towards increase natural gas demand from coal has effectively restored one of Russia's main foreign earnings.
Refer to "House of Bush, House of Saud", by Craig Unger.,
Russia is not the only energy exporting country with geopolitical costs.
Paul wanted a statement inserted into the bill that would have an inspector general scrutinize the new spending.
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@Mary Jenson In the 1980s, Taiwan was developing a nuclear bomb when the US told them to stop i.e. VP Geoge H Bush has a pro-China position.
>Look at how we faced a world pandemic and who was the country sending millions upon millions of tax revenue (from the people) to "help" the world?
Oxford-AstraZeneca company today reached a $750 million agreement with CEPI and Gavi to support the manufacturing, procurement and distribution of 300 million doses of the potential vaccine, with delivery starting by the end of the year. In addition, AstraZeneca reached a licensing agreement with SII to supply one billion doses for low-and-middle-income countries, with a commitment to provide 400 million before the end of 2020.
Under the arrangement, the Serum Institute of India (SSI) will produce 1 billion doses under licence from AstraZeneca for India and low-income countries. The Oxford-AZ deal includes the potential for non-exclusive, royalty-free licences to be offered to manufacturers to support production that is free-of-charge, at-cost, or at cost with limited margin supply. A bilateral licensing deal is in effect between Oxford/AZ and the Serum Institute India (SII).
Australia paid $2.2 billion USD for Novavax's 40 million vaccine doses, Pfizer/BioNTech 10 million vaccine doses with a total of 134 million doses from four COVID-19 vaccines. The cost difference between Australia and India shows a large-scale discount given by UK's Oxford university and AstraZeneca.
Unlike AstraZeneca, Pfizer/BioNTech didn't provide the vaccines at-cost.
Pfizer had shipped around 430 million Corminaty doses to 91 countries at May 2021. The supply deals have resulted in a massive financial haul: Pfizer reported $3.5 billion in global Corminaty sales for the first quarter 2021.
Pfizer and BioNTech will provide an additional 500 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine to the U.S. government to be donated to lower-income countries.
Australia's total Pfizer doses are 125 million, and Australia has purchased more than 280 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Australia covers Oceania and parts of the South East Asia region. UK (for India, Africa), US (for South America, Africa), and Australia (for Oceania and parts of South East Asia) cover their respective interest area.
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