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China and the U.S. Must Cooperate Against Coronavirus
Cui Tiankai for The New York Times. Read the original article here. This is a time for solidarity, collaboration, and mutual support. WASHINGTON — New York is my favorite American city. I used to live and work there and have … Continued The post China and the U.S. Must Cooperate read more →
Asymptomatic coronavirus cases appear to be on the rise in China, report says
Edmund DeMarche for Fox News. Read the original article here. Just as China is about to lift travel restrictions in Wuhan—the city considered to be the country’s one-time epicenter of the coronavirus—Beijing has reported an increase in asymptomatic cases there, which raises new … Continued The post Asymptomatic coronavirus cases appear to be read more →
China joins UN Human Rights Council panel despite troubling record, response to coronavirus
By Adam Shaw | Fox News| 5 April 2020| Read original news here China has been appointed to a panel on the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council, where it will help vet candidates for important posts — despite its decades-long record of systematic human rights … Continued The post China joins UN Human Rights Council read more →
China’s Coming Upheaval
Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping By Minxin Pei | Foreign Affairs| April 3, 2020| Read original here Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with villagers in Huzhou, China, about the coronavirus, March 2020Ju Peng Xinhua / eyevine / Redux Over … Continued The post China’s Coming Upheaval appeared first on read more →
China Isn’t Helping Italy. It’s Waging Information Warfare.
The populist Five Star Movement has become China’s chief enabler as Beijing spreads disinformation about the origins of the coronavirus while sending aid shipments to EU countries where it seeks influence. BY MATTIA FERRARES| Foreign Policy| Read original here Italy is … Continued The post China Isn’t Helping Italy. It’s Waging read more →
‘Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy’ Fails to Impress – or Reassure
Though the credo is mainly a PR exercise to massage China’s image, it leaves plenty of cause for global concern. By Denny Roy| The Diplomat| April 02, 2020| Read original here Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and paramount … Continued The post ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy’ Fails read more →
COVID-19 Symposium: A Time to Kill ‘Business as Usual’–Centring Human Rights in a Frustrated Economy (Part 2)
Tara Van Ho. Opinio Juris. April 2, 2020. Read the original article here. In the first part, I set out how ‘business as usual’ with regard to shareholder primacy has exacerbated human rights concerns associated with COVID-19. In this post, … Continued The post COVID-19 Symposium: A Time to Kill read more →
PM Narendra Modi plans staggered exit from vast coronavirus
Sanjeev 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
The 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
Deborah 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
The 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
Source: 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
China’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
Reported 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
By 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 →