The hundred years of changes in the human race are condensed in the year 2020.
Looking back many years later, we may have mixed feelings about whether it was a blessing or a curse for our generation.
1: In 2020, we almost witnessed a war.
The year began in the shadow of war.
On January 3, missiles targeted and removed Iran’s famous flower [Suleimani]. This triggered a dramatic upheaval in the Middle East.
Five days later, Iran launched a missile attack on a U.S. base in Iraq. Rarely, this time the United States chose to endure. Otherwise, a war could have been on the horizon.
2, 2020, we witnessed one of the most tragic air crashes of all time.
The U.S.-Iraq conflict, although in the end both sides chose to exercise restraint. On January 8, Iran launched a missile attack on the United States, but the plane was hit by mistake, killing 176 people.
This is the beginning of 2020, suggesting that this gentile year is extraordinary.
3, 2020, we witnessed the changing landscape of the world.
On January 31, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union, and we witnessed the first split of the European Union.
For the first time, the EU, which has been expanding, has seen a split.
In July, the United States formally announced that it would withdraw from the WHO next year.
On August 28, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abbott formally announced his resignation from the post of Prime Minister, with big countries wrestling and small countries taking sides.
In the post-epidemic era, the restructuring of the global economic and trade patterns and order is inevitable, and some unprecedented new changes have emerged. On the one hand, the epidemic is the most serious economic recession since the Great Depression, and global trade is shrinking sharply; on the other hand, the impact of the epidemic has intensified the structural reshuffle among countries and deepened the strategic game of great powers.
The situation in Europe and the pattern of the world is undergoing subtle changes.
4, 2020, we are witnessing an unprecedented new crown epidemic.
It is the most important event of 2020, bar none.
For the Chinese people, we had probably the most unforgettable Chinese New Year of our lives. As Kissinger said: “The Chinese are always well protected by the bravest among them”.
We witnessed the dramatic sealing of Wuhan, we saw the White Soldiers rally to Wuhan from New Year’s Eve, and we thought for a moment that we might not make it through, but then, miraculously, more than two months later, China turned the tide.
I am reminded of a very classic quote from my favorite anime JoJo: “The hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage! The greatness of mankind is the greatness of courage!”
Everything has borders, except viruses.
The epidemic abroad is getting worse, first Japan, South Korea, then Iran, Italy, Spain, and of course, now the worst of all, Brazil and the United States.
U.S. media reported on October 2, U.S. President Donald Trump’s new crown test results were positive, confirmed infection with the new crown virus.
5, 2020, we are witnessing a sudden collapse of the world economy.
According to the IMF’s forecast, the global economy will grow -3.0% in 2020, and it will probably go down further. You read that right, it’s negative. It’s probably the worst record of the IMF since its inception.
But that’s the reality, and the reality is pretty harsh. We see the world’s airlines weeping, the world’s largest airplane manufacturer Boeing almost on the brink of bankruptcy, cruise lines, travel companies, the film and television industry weeping, and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises, struggling on the brink of death. ……
6, 2020, we witnessed an unprecedented stock market crash.
Let’s say U.S. stocks.
There have been a total of 5 meltdowns in the history of the U.S. stock market, and 4 of them happened in March of this year.
Even Warren Buffett, the god of stocks, who has seen a lot of ups and downs, said, “I’m too young”: I’m 89 years old and I’ve never seen this before.
7, 2020, we also witnessed a historic oil price.
Have you ever seen the price of oil at $0?
Never before had mankind seen it.
But in April of this year, we not only witnessed the price of oil at $0, but we finally learned that $0 is just the floor, and that there are 18 levels of hell below the floor, with the price of oil closing at -$37.63 per barrel at one point, a drop of over 300%.
This was, without a doubt, the worst episode in the history of world oil, bar none. How many fortunes have been turned into eternal tragedy in one night.
8, 2020, we also witnessed a bottomless dumping of oil.
The fierce wars of shifting and counter-shifting continue.
In order to shirk their own responsibilities, some politicians are still looking for scapegoats. So, we have seen too many lies in international public opinion recently. What’s more, some politicians don’t even need any evidence, they can say one thing after another, such as “Chinese virus”, “Fang Fang’s diary”, and “WHO is ineffective”.
The lie, repeated a thousand times, does not necessarily become the truth, but it muddles world public opinion.
9, 2020, we are witnessing a racial tearing apart of the West that has not been seen in decades.
City after city, people are protesting in anger; store after store, even police stations, are being set ablaze. The killing of Floyd, a black American, on his knees by police triggered the largest anti-racist, anti-violence outcry in the United States in decades.
10, 2020, and we are still witnessing a wave of statue takedowns.
Statue after statue is being graffitied, toppled, and even destroyed, and the movement to tear down statues is beginning in the United States and spreading to the West.
Anyway, in the United States, statues of Columbus were decapitated, graffitied, and sunk in lakes all over the world, along with the original Southern generals of the Civil War.
In Belgium, the statue of King Leopold II, once stained with African blood, was burned, graffitied, and destroyed. In England, even Winston Churchill, whose statue in Parliament Square in London was graffitied, had his name crossed out of the pedestal, and people wrote: This is a racist.
For the West, this is an unprecedented wave, and it’s not over yet, but it’s rolling forward again ……
The year 2020, if carefully combed through, has also witnessed too much history.
The East African locust plague at the beginning of the year.
The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
The Chinese college entrance exam was also postponed.
The floods in southern China, which affected many of our compatriots, were heartbreaking.
China launches Mars exploration mission named: Tianwen-1.
The passage of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
Consulate General of the United States and China.
The completion of China’s Beidou-3 global satellite navigation system.
The Lebanese Explosion.
U.S. Elections Under Epidemic: The Battle Between the Two Parties Is Heating Up ……
Our journey is a sea of stars.
And
We had no idea that masks would become the most sought-after item of the year.
Westerners didn’t expect that toilet paper would be their favorite item to snap up.
Americans also didn’t expect that Trump would once hide in the White House bunker ……
And, of course
We had no idea that after the epidemic, China’s economy would begin to recover and resume production at an accelerated pace.
We have also witnessed new outbreaks of epidemics in Beijing, Dalian, and Xinjiang.
We have also witnessed new developments on the peninsula and on our southwest border, the rattling of the China-India border, and the undercurrents in the South China Sea.
It was very unsettling and heavy.
In fact, for more ordinary people like us, what makes 2020 special is not what we have witnessed in history, but what we have experienced in life.
We are simply being carried along by the wheels of history in a huge tidal wave that is flooding the individual.
Sometimes when I want to understand a historical period, I can only find macro-economic and cultural data. It is difficult to get a deeper understanding of what ordinary people were thinking and encountering from multiple perspectives at that time.
So, it is equally important to engrave the small things in my life forever. By piecing together the big picture of our lives in this way, history remembers us.
In just a few months, we have witnessed a hundred years of concentrated history, and we are part of it.
But this is only the beginning.
The play must begin with a prologue, but the prologue is not yet the climax.
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