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Tag: Virus crisis

Posted inOpinion

Under Biden, US set to resume globalist policies

by Robert Lewis December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

With Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election, Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine will be jettisoned, and Biden will seek to return the US to pre-Trumpian norms. That is expected to mean a return to the Paris climate accords, the Iran nuclear deal, and perhaps even the Trans-Pacific Partnership. For US allies who felt […]

Posted inEuropean Union

EU split over China’s ‘face mask’ diplomacy

by David Hutt March 28, 2020April 13, 2020
Posted inMaldives

Quarantined Maldives needs China to survive

by Bertil Lintner March 27, 2020March 31, 2020
Posted inMalaysia

Covid-19 curve still rises under Malaysian lockdown

by Nile Bowie March 25, 2020March 28, 2020
Posted inIndonesia

Ramadan threatens Covid-19 contagion in Indonesia

by John McBeth March 25, 2020March 27, 2020
Posted inSoutheast Asia

Asia’s garment makers hang by a Covid-19 thread

by David Hutt March 25, 2020March 27, 2020
Posted inThailand

Prayut declares a Covid-19 emergency in Thailand

by Shawn W. Crispin March 24, 2020April 13, 2020
Posted inPhilippines

Duterte uses Covid-19 crisis to tighten his grip

by Richard Javad Heydarian March 24, 2020March 27, 2020
Posted inSingapore

Singapore’s model response faces viral second wave

by Nile Bowie March 23, 2020March 26, 2020
Posted inPhilippines

Covid-19 lockdown risks lives in the Philippines

by Richard Javad Heydarian March 22, 2020March 29, 2020
Posted inIndonesia

Indonesia prayers spread world’s top Covid-19 kill rate

by John McBeth March 21, 2020March 26, 2020
Posted inIndonesia

Why Indonesia has world’s highest Covid-19 death rate

by John McBeth March 20, 2020April 2, 2020
Posted inBangladesh

Rohingya refugee camps a Covid-19 time bomb

by Bertil Linter March 20, 2020March 24, 2020
Posted inThailand

Thailand blames its Covid-19 crisis on Caucasians

by Richard S Ehrlich March 20, 2020March 28, 2020
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam spins virus crisis to win hearts and minds

by David Hutt March 19, 2020March 22, 2020
Posted inMalaysia

From putsch to pandemic in quarantined Malaysia

by Nile Bowie March 18, 2020March 21, 2020
Posted inCambodia

Hun Sen blusters and blunders through virus crisis

by David Hutt March 17, 2020March 20, 2020
Posted inThailand

Fever pitch call for change in viral Thailand

by Shawn W. Crispin March 17, 2020March 21, 2020
Posted inThailand

Thailand caught in a destabilizing viral spiral

by Shawn W. Crispin March 6, 2020March 19, 2020
Posted inChina

Couriers take a hands-off approach amid virus

by Lan Lianchao February 22, 2020February 23, 2020

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