2022 can be described as a year mired with exacerbations of supply chains, rapid inflation, and shrinking economic growth worldwide. In China, the notorious Zero-Covid policy severely restricted the movement of Chinese citizens, for millions, this led to forceful quarantine in fever camps or being confined in apartments for weeks on end.
Putin’s recent annexation of the four Ukrainian territories of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, which make up roughly 15-20% of Ukrainian territory, has sparked...