The Chinese economy is a beast that’s not easily tamed. Through the most tumultuous of times — bloodshed at Tiananmen Square, the global financial crisis, Trump’s trade war — it has continued to grow. But now, in the face of...
The coronavirus (Covid-19), which reportedly originated from a wet market in Hubei Province, China, has claimed more than 7,100 lives globally and spread to more than 140 countries since the outbreak started at the end of 2019. The new strain...
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed 168,019 cases of the novel coronavirus, with 6,610 confirmed deaths in 148 countries and territories worldwide as of March 16. Nations in Lockdown Italy, Spain, China, France and the United States are all in...
Almost 102 years ago in January, 1918 as the first world war was approaching its end, an influenza virus swept across the world killing tens of millions of people. The 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic was from the same family of...
2019-nCov (also known as the novel coronavirus or just coronavirus) is a virus that causes respiratory disease. Testing patients in order to detect the virus and treat the infected people is now crucial given the virus has been spreading worldwide...
An economy in decline and foreign policy on hold. This is an abstract of what China is currently experiencing. Life hasn’t been easy for Xi Jinping and his country as the coronavirus outbreak wreaks havoc across the world. Being the...
The 2020 coronavirus epidemic has become one of the worst global health emergencies in recent years. It has been compared more than once to the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the MERS one in 2012. Likewise in these earlier two...
At times little is needed to change the seemingly inexorable course of history. The coronavirus will probably not have an enormous impact on history but it certainly will affect the present day because it is clear that since the virus...
The Corona virus dominates the news, but its strategic implications have not been mentioned much. This matches a general trend where news outlets offer breathless coverage of Chinese missiles or scary commentary on their aggression in the South China Sea,...
Supermarkets ransacked, psychosis and profiteering. The coronavirus emergency has thrown Italy into a psychosis, bringing out the country’s worst side. Reason has given way to fear, common sense has been ousted by selfishness and facts by sensationalism. Yesterday Antonio Borrelli, ...