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India’s gamble on China policy looking like a bad bet
Sep 07, 2020 15:44India’s China strategy has looked shaky over the last 10 months. It looks as though India has been facing severe anguish after it tried to tilt toward “the West” to counter China. The indefinitely protracted Sino-Indian military standoff in Ladakh has made New Delhi’s jitteriness more palpable recently.
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How to stop COVID-19 fuelling a resurgence of AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
Sep 02, 2020 17:55AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB), three of the deadliest infectious diseases, together kill 2.4 million people every year, with TB alone responsible for 1.5 million deaths. And deaths from these diseases could almost double over the next year, according to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a consortium of donors that funds treatments. The reason: coronavirus. It’s a horrifying prospect, and calls for an urgent action plan.
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US, China sea tensions hot and getting hotter
Aug 26, 2020 15:35The US-China “New Cold War” is heating up at sea, raising the risk of an armed conflict that seemed highly unlikely just months ago amid unprecedented global health and economic crises. During its latest drills in the South China Sea on August 18, the US Navy’s USS Mustin destroyer upped the ante by reportedly piercing through for the first time the western side of the median line dividing mainland China and Taiwan.
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Can the US restore its global supremacy?
Aug 24, 2020 15:49While the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 continues to propagate dangerously across the world, there is no denying that its health risks are real. Unfortunately, it has been used politically by the US to further its trade war against China, with a singular objective of bringing the Chinese to the negotiation table. Beneath this global propaganda lies another, more sinister agenda. It is looking like the US and some of its allies are using the pandemic to cover up their poor governance.
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Why China is taking over the ‘American century’
Aug 22, 2020 07:08Under President Donald Trump, the United States is indeed losing to China in two important spheres. In economic and technical terms China is already a peer competitor of the United States … in a very different kind of globalized world.
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First into the virus slump, China is proving the fastest out
Aug 18, 2020 09:00Tommy Wu, senior economist at Oxford Economics Ltd in Hong Kong said “China’s coronavirus recovery is largely on track,” adding, “Investment plays a bigger role, where as in the rest of the world fiscal policy support is mainly on the employment and the smaller enterprise front.
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US knows folly of war, yet keeps provoking China
Aug 11, 2020 08:39China says it has no intention of ratcheting up tensions with the United States and engaging in a diplomatic war with Washington. Recently, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remark in an interview with the official Xinhua news agency, putting forward four principles to advance Sino-US ties.
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US sanctions aimed to hurt Iranian people
Aug 09, 2020 10:44Since Iran's 1979 Revolution that ended a generation of US-installed fascist tyranny, the US has thrown everything at Iran conceivable short of all-out war. It threw a proxy war against Iran in the 1980s with Iraq. This went on for the better part of the decade - about 8 years. Over the years, over about 41 years, the US has sanctioned Iran many, many times. All US sanctions are illegal.
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As pandemic rages on, world economic recovery looks ever shakier
Aug 05, 2020 13:42The world economic outlook has dimmed again, with still-rising coronavirus infections and the risk of renewed lockdowns increasing the chances that any rebound will reverse course. Over 17 million people have been infected worldwide by the coronavirus and more than two-thirds of a million people have died. That has forced governments to impose strict lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus, keeping citizens at home and businesses closed and spurring recessions that aren’t over yet.
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The way the coronavirus messes with smell hints at how it affects the brain
Aug 05, 2020 13:30The virus responsible for COVID-19 can steal a person’s sense of smell, leaving them noseblind to fresh-cut grass, a pungent meal or even their own stale clothes. But so far, details remain elusive about how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can infiltrate and shut down the body’s smelling machinery.