State of the World: August 2022

    Perhaps this report will be more valuable in the future. The myriad panoply of world news and other resources fill the world with their messages and information. Just a few things from me. Tonight. My blog, some 700 posts strong. Or weak.

    Start with China! They have the most people, after all. Incidentally, I just had my soon to be full-fledged sixth grader look up Bhutan. Why? Well, sometimes it is good to know that a kingdom of some 900,000 people exists between the two most populated countries on Earth. No news of Bhutan that I know of. That is probably good.

    China, according to certain Muslim officials from other Muslim countries around the world, is not abusing and or torturing and raping Chinese Uighurs, those indigenous Chines Muslims that we are pretty confident are being held in concentration camps, re-education centers, prisons and jails, and are being forced to labor, or being sexually assaulted and worse. Ugh.

    I believe that China is doing all those things. They are also quashing the rights and opportunities of millions of its citizens in Hong Kong and elsewhere. China is threatening Taiwan, "the renegade province", and being aggressive with its own local seas where there are islands disputed by multiple other countries. As far as I know China has not had a dust up with India lately, as they did last year.

    India, a massive country that will surpass China in overall population soon, is doing okay. They continue to grow, economically doing better than China, from what I know. They suffer even more poverty than China. India and China have both not condemned Russia in their invasion of Ukraine. India seems to be taking oil and other commodities that the Western world is struggling to eschew. Sanctions to show disapproval of the Russian aggressors.

    Europe is having a hard time ridding itself of Russian oil dependency. But they are conducting austere measures to do so, preparing for the cold winter. Summer is roiling many northern continents, drying up rivers, causing food problems. Speaking of food problems, some grain was allowed to leave Ukraine only recently, alleviating food supply chains, mostly to desperately hungry or poor peoples in the "southern nations".

    Latin America has voted for more leftist regimes in the last few years, to include Chile, with a very young president named Boric.

    Africa has had some terrorist issues, as always. Ethiopia has had war issues, and there have been diseases and issues in other parts. Monkey pox has followed COVID-19 worldwide. It does not kill as many people but it has alarmed many.

    Australia? It has not had as many fires this past year. They are an isolated nation, got in trouble for submarine purchases with the U.S. instead of France.

    Southeast Asia? I think they are doing well. Japan had a former Prime Minister, Shino Abe, assassinated, which was shocking. But I think Japan and South Korea are all right, despite the kooks of North Korea.

    I have family headed to that peninsula. Pretty cool.

    The Middle East? Craziness in Syria, I have not heard much of Yemen lately.

    What else? My Church is dedicating more temples; I saw the Prophet announce this lately at the re-dedication of the D.C. Temples.

    The Lord is preparing His ways. Try to see the signs and be good.