... about three weeks (until January 20), when no really serious measures were taken to combat the disease. It was a tragic fact for China and the world that this period coincided with the time before the Spring Festival, when internal inter-city travel peaks.... ... of dollars and scrapping the personal plans of tens or hundreds of millions of people. In the world that existed before the COVID-19 epidemic, it was impossible for a politician or official in any country to take such steps only on the basis of assumptions....
Perhaps, the only thing that can save the Arab Republic from a large number of COVID-19 deaths is large-scale external assistance
The world continues to fight the spread of COVID-19, an infection of a new type. In China, the peak of the epidemic has passed; countries of the European Union and the United States cannot yet seize the strategic initiative in an unequal battle with the pandemic, despite the high level of the healthcare system. At the same time, in some ...
..., RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank Global Counter Terrorism Council.
The meeting gave rise to an open discussion of the possible negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. While some experts argued that the current crisis could undermine the Initiative, most experts believe its negative impact may be only short-term. Growing US – China rivalry, India’s policy in the region as well ...
... than official reports suggest. Moreover, certain voices insist that China is on the verge of a secondary outbreak (which may happen as early as this autumn), and if this is the case, then we may have been a little hasty in praising the effectiveness of China’s strategy in fighting COVID-19.
Andrey Kortunov:
Global Victory Over COVID-19: What Price Are We Willing to Pay?
How strong is this line of defence? The design looks flimsy and unreliable. Naturally, Beijing manipulated the statistics from time to time and the accuracy and ...
It’s not an ideological war, but rather a soft power battle
There has been a blame game between Washington and Beijing regarding the source of the COVID-19. As stated by the
Guardian
and
China Daily
, President Donald Trump and other American officials, have labelled Covid-19 the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan Virus” . One White House official is reported to have also labelled the virus the “Kung Flu”. The Republican senator ...
... WHO’s aid package from $123 million to $58 million. The reason, according to U.S. officials, was that the assistance offered by other countries, particularly those that are members of the European Union, had failed to materialize. In reality, however, China received help and support from all corners – including a number of European states – during its darkest hours. And now that the country has got the spread of the virus under control, it is offering assistance to Europe, even though there is ...
... opportunities.
One gets the impression that the main reason behind the Security Council’s silence is the fierce information war that is taking place between Washington and Beijing.
According to the American side, any Security Council resolution on COVID-19 should be worded in such a way that the main blame for the outbreak is placed squarely on the shoulders of China and should also punish Beijing for trying to conceal the full scale of the problem from the international community. China, for its part, sees the spread of the virus as a side effect of Washington’s unilateralist policies, its proclivity to exert ...
... first candidates for dismissal during the inevitable cuts in production and massive bankruptcies of enterprises?
Ivan Timofeev:
COVID-19: Toward New Forms of Social Organisation?
Had we lived in another epoch, the fate of the old people would seem less significant.... ... fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, whose fate is not inconsequential to them – that happens in France, in China, and in Russia.
There is no serious conflict between fathers and sons over coronavirus, but there is a generational problem....
