PM Narendra Modi plans staggered exit from vast coronavirus
April 4, 2020Sanjeev Miglani| Reuters| Read original here| 2 April 2020 The shutdown, which has brought Asia’s third-largest economy to a shuddering halt, is due to end on April 14 PM Modi had ordered India’s 1.3 billion people indoors to avert a massive … Continued The post PM Narendra Modi plans staggered exit read more →
Captive nations and other inmates
April 4, 2020The Chinese Communist Party wants to control the diaspora and suppress foreign criticism. Mongolians, Tibetans and Uighurs are not only silenced inside Xi Jinping’s empire, but abroad Standpoint Magazine Features| Read original here| 25/03/2020 (Illustration by Ellie Foreman-Peck) You may not have … Continued The post Captive nations and other inmates appeared read more →
COVID-19: China concealed extent of coronavirus outbreak, US intelligence says
April 3, 2020Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on its response to the outbreak, said Tuesday that China’s public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus. By: Bloomberg|Published: April 1, 2020| Read original … Continued The post COVID-19: China concealed extent of coronavirus read more →
COP26 postponement
April 3, 2020The COP26 UN climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19. GOV.UK| Read original here| 1 April 2020 From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP The … Continued The post COP26 postponement appeared first on Central read more →
This man in Bengaluru has been giving refuge to stranded Tibetans during the lockdown
April 2, 2020Source: edexlive.com 30th Mar 2020 06:57 PM | Blessy Mathew Prasad Tashi Wangdu is a Tibetan who was born and raised in Bylakuppe, Karnataka. The 46-year-old been living in Bengaluru since 2010 and runs a guest house called The Himalayan Inn in Bengaluru. Since the pandemic started and the Indian government announced the read more →
China, Russia, and Arctic Geopolitics
April 2, 2020China’s burgeoning role in the Arctic could translate into direct competition with Russia. By Ling Guo and Steven Lloyd Wilson| The Diplomat| Read original here| March 29, 2020 Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Christoper Michel In late February, a Russian icebreaker, Kapitan Dranitsyn, successfully carried out … Continued The post China, Russia, and Arctic Geopolitics appeared read more →
Concerns Grow Over Wuhan Doctor Amid Call For Return to Work
April 1, 2020Reported by Qiao Long for RFA’s Mandarin Service, and by the Cantonese Service. Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie. March 31, 2020. Read the original news here. Whistleblowing Wuhan doctor Ai Fen is currently incommunicado, believed detained after giving media … Continued The post Concerns Grow Over Wuhan Doctor Amid read more →
Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus
March 31, 2020By Gary P. Pisano, Raffaella Sadun and Michele Zanini| Harvard Business Review| Read original here| March 27, 2020 As policymakers around the world struggle to combat the rapidly escalating Covid-19 pandemic, they find themselves in uncharted territory. Much has been written about the practices … Continued The post Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus read more →
Taiwan foreign minister invites U.S. reporters expelled by China
March 31, 2020Reuters| Read original here| 28 March 2020 (Reuters) – Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu extended a personal invitation on Saturday for three major U.S. newspapers to station on the island their China-based journalists whose expulsion Beijing has announced. China said … Continued The post Taiwan foreign minister invites U.S. reporters read more →
Coronavirus Crisis Awakens a Sleeping Giant: China’s Youth
March 30, 2020By Vivian Wang and Javier C. Hernández| New York Times| March 29 2020| Read original here Students have flooded social media to organize donations for Chinese doctors battling the coronavirus epidemic. Workers have marched in the streets to demand compensation for weeks of unemployment … Continued The post Coronavirus Crisis Awakens a Sleeping Giant: read more →