Tag Archive: Asia

How Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Released for Syndication: 08/04/2020

Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of...

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Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19

Released for Syndication: 07/31/2020

Gutting the WHO, the only instrument of global cooperation during a pandemic, is a road to disaster.

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Even If Joe Biden Wins in a Blowout, the ‘Global Economy’ Is Not Coming Back

Released for Syndication: 07/24/2020

New economic imperatives are forcing nations to make a choice.

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Laos Has Tackled COVID-19, But It Is Drowning in Debt to International Finance

Released for Syndication: 07/14/2020

On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)—a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia—said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun...

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What’s Driving Trump’s Political Attacks on China

Released for Syndication: 05/05/2020

U.S. President Donald Trump has tied himself and onlookers in knots by his alternating encomiums for and diatribes against China over COVID-19 in the...

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Become a Manufacturing Powerhouse in 2020—An Economic Recipe for Our Times

Released for Syndication: 04/22/2020

Local content requirements, tariffs and quotas are all ideas to be considered, as geopolitical concerns begin to supersede free-trade ideology.

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Can Democracy Survive the Coronavirus?

Released for Syndication: 04/14/2020

The COVID-19 global pandemic has prompted a major question about leadership in a time of crisis: how to balance the importance of public health...

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Could COVID-19 Bring Down the U.S. Empire?

Released for Syndication: 04/10/2020

As U.S. COVID-19 cases double every few days and the death toll mounts, the U.S. seems to be caught in a “worst of both...

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Growing Xenophobia Against China in the Midst of CoronaShock

Released for Syndication: 03/30/2020

Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a consequence of the stigma driven by the Trump administration.

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A World No Longer Shaped by Atlantic Powers

Released for Syndication: 02/28/2020

The annual Munich Security Conference that took place February 14-16 this year turned out to be an iconic event, drawing comparison with the one...

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