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What is driving the rice prices in Japan to skyrocket?

2025/4/2
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Dr. Zhang Xing discusses the potential for China and Russia to stabilize a turbulent world, highlighting the destabilizing actions of certain political forces and the importance of China and Russia as major powers countering these efforts. He emphasizes their role as a center of the political spectrum.
  • Increasing turbulence in the world is caused by major political forces trying to destabilize the international system.
  • The Trump administration's actions are illustrative of attempts to destabilize the world politically and legally.
  • China and Russia, as UN Security Council permanent members, can jointly counter efforts to destabilize the status quo.
  • China and Russia are becoming the center of the political spectrum amid a rapidly drifting global equilibrium.

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① Meeting with China’s foreign minister in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Beijing and Moscow to enhance strategic cooperation. Will China and Russia jointly deliver more stability to a turbulent world? (00:53)

② How could the new tariffs being imposed by US President Donald Trump erode consumer and business confidence? (13:26)

③ The US is sending more warplanes to reinforce its military capability in the Middle East, as its tensions with Iran build. Does Trump mean it when he threatens Iran with bombing? (24:41)

④ Denmark’s prime minister is visiting Greenland amid mounting pressure from Trump to control the island. What’s at stake in her trip? (34:56)

⑤ What’s behind the skyrocketing rice prices in Japan? (44:00)