Economy
Can China Silk Road Survive Coronavirus?
China’s priority infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, faces enormous problems just seven years after it was proclaimed in 2013. Serious problems and charges of China luring poorer nations into what a leading Indian analyst termed a “debt trap diplomacy,” began to appear already in 2018 when Malaysia and Pakistan, under new governments demanded...
Australia and How the Corona Crisis Raises Wider Geopolitical Issues
The coronavirus pandemic that is currently causing enormous social and economic disruption is curious for a number of reasons. The first controversy is the actual location of the beginning of the virus. It should not be a matter of controversy, much less the outrageous allegations that have been made. Those allegations, naming China as the...
Wild Boars Continue to Spread ASF, but How did it Reach the Korean Peninsula?
Earlier, the author believed that South Korea deserved to be commended for its efforts in combating African swine fever (ASF within its borders, but the situation turned out to be more serious than previously thought. The following paragraphs provide an incomplete record of the growing number of dead wild boars found not...
