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A kidney transplant in Cambodia cost one Japanese patient $157,500. Japanese prosecutors linked the same military hospital to alleged kidney trafficking involving Indonesians.
Why does the hospital keep resurfacing in the illegal body part trade?
geopulselab.org/southeast-as…
🐕 🇦🇷 Argentina’s president spent $50,000 cloning his dead dog. Three years after his election, voters are more concerned with the cost of living than his eccentricities.
Inside Javier Milei’s Bizarre World of Cloned Dogs, Psychics, and Reincarnation: geopulselab.org/global-watch…
🇨🇦 Canada is betting $24 billion on becoming an LNG giant. The expansion of its Kitimat terminal will double capacity to 28 million tonnes a year as war and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz increase demand for alternative suppliers.
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ALT A flare at an oil and gas facility in the Canadian wilderness.
In September, LNG Canada exported about 1 million tonnes of LNG, with every cargo going to Asia. Canada is turning its Pacific coastline into an alternative route to global energy markets.
🇨🇦 Canada wants to offer buyers an alternative to Gulf energy supplies and reduce its dependence on the US market. But can a bigger export terminal change the global balance of energy power?
Read more: geopulselab.org/global-watch…
🇺🇸 The US is reopening talks with 🇲🇲 Myanmar’s military-backed leadership after the 2021 coup. Washington wants to tackle scam centers and may seek alternatives to 🇨🇳 China’s rare earth dominance.
Can it pursue those interests without legitimizing the junta?
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The political cost is significant. Myanmar’s military leader remains under US sanctions over human rights abuses. Expanding cooperation without meaningful progress could give the military-backed leadership junta greater international legitimacy.
No new US-Myanmar rare earth agreement has been publicly confirmed. The real test is whether these talks deliver verifiable results—or simply give the military-backed leadership greater diplomatic standing while Myanmar’s conflict continues.
Read more: geopulselab.org/southeast-as…
🇬🇾 Guyana’s opposition leader Azruddin Mohamed is due back in court on October 21 as the United States seeks his extradition on financial crime charges.
The case puts a political rivalry under pressure because Mohamed is President Irfaan Ali’s main opponent.
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The wider geopolitical context complicates the picture. 🇺🇸 Washington is a key strategic partner for Guyana, which relies on US security cooperation amid its territorial dispute with 🇻🇪 Venezuela over Essequibo.
If Mohamed is extradited, his party could lose its leader—but the grievances that propelled it into politics may remain.
Can the courts resolve the case without deepening Guyana’s political divisions?
Read more: geopulselab.org/global-watch…
