Announced on Wednesday (4) by the European Union, the Russian oil embargo began to dissolve on the same day.
In the most read text in the Financial Times, Hungary said it would reject it; Slovakia, which he would only fulfill in two and a half years; and the Czech Republic rushed to Berlin to ask for more time.
Reuters dispatched from Tokyo that the economy minister warned that Japan, “given its limits on natural resources, would have difficulty” keeping up with Europe at the moment.
As for India, the Times of India headline on Narendra Modi’s Europe tour, “Prime Minister reiterates stance on Ukraine.”
At the top of the New York Times, adopting an aggressive tone, “India finds Russian oil irresistible, no matter the pressure”, and what was “neutrality about war has expanded to economic opportunism”.
For Bloomberg, more than the opportunism of importers, the problem lies in Saudi Arabia and other exporters “hesitant” to increase oil production.
Without the increase in supply, “consumers will be left with higher prices while Russia reaps the benefits.” Or again, “the pain will be felt deep in the pocket of Berliners”, not of Muscovites.
In short, “so far efforts to rally support for the campaign to isolate Moscow have failed, reinforcing the bifurcation of the global economy into NATO and its friends on one side”, the rest on the other.
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The NHK network and others point out that Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia, respectively in charge of the G20, APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum) and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), “issued a joint statement showing their willingness to invite the Russia” for the three summits to be held in November.
With the declaration, says Japanese TV, “they intend to contain the pressure movement” from the US.
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Chinese like Guancha and the South China Morning Post, this one with a headline, highlighted a report by the Rand Corporation, a center for US military studies, saying that Washington “cannot find a place to set up missile bases around China”.
The text warns that reluctant allies “could ruin US plans to fight China”.
BY NBC ACCOUNTS, 1 MILLION
The NYT continues to report that “Coronavirus deaths in the US are expected to reach 1 million in the coming weeks”, but NBC, the main network, reported that by its count it has already arrived (above).
“In a distant second place is Brazil, which recorded just over 660,000 deaths,” he added.
