China has taken the initiative to refine its COVID-19 response measures
Over the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around the globe and posed enormous challenges to all countries including China. The Communist Party of China and the Chinese government, putting the people ...
... adopted a different approach, wherein it is ready to meet with representatives of North Korea “anytime and anywhere.” Yet, in practice, it is obvious that the United States only seeks to reinvigorate its sanctions regime, ignoring the implications of COVID-19 as well as repeated calls coming from UN Secretary-General António Guterres to lift all sanctions during the pandemic.
Konstantin Asmolov:
No Prospects for Denuclearization of North Korea
The rigidity of this policy was evident during a series ...
... instance, EU support fell by 16%, reaching one of the lowest levels ever registered. Furthermore, conforming to the data, the COVID-19 outbreak is stated to have weakened the Union, with Italy, France, and Germany being the main supporters asserting that ... ... Economics and Public Policy at Oxford University, at the root of any economic development lies a sense of identity [
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]. Every society presents a dual composition, a power structure, and an identity component. In the absence of the latter, power dissolves ...
... economic goal (be it economic growth or profit) and basic freedoms (for example, the freedom of movement); and 2) that modern society and political systems have not gone far enough in terms of globalization.
The first characteristic is not obvious to many,... ... countries, regardless of their political structure or economic system. A few centuries ago, this kind of viral pneumonia (like COVID-19) would have gone completely unnoticed: yes, large numbers of the elderly and infirm would have died, but life would have ...
... relevant even today. In recent years the Kremlin has not hesitated to make a crisis fruitful, using it to regain its position as a significant player on the global scene (i.e., Libya, Ukraine, Syria). And the global health emergency triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception.
On March 22, Italy began to receive the first Russian aid, following a telephone call between Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Russian President Vladimir Putin. A goodwill gesture labeled “From Russia with ...
... actions around the pandemic were undoubtedly justified, Canada and the world should be better equipped to understand what is necessary to sustain a more robust economy if there is indeed a second wave of the virus. The most dangerous characteristic of COVID-19 is its weakness to kill. Unlike more deadly viruses that dispatch the host quickly and have a tapered prospect to vault to others and dies out, COVID-19 is carried by asymptomatic humans who unknowingly infect those most vulnerable to the illness....
... else that relations between states are now built upon this “state of emergency” and upon “extraordinary power.”
That being said, it is extremely rare that a “state of emergency” appears
inside
a country: relations between the state and society have typically been built on the basis of established legislation and the basic law. However, with the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in early 2020, the very notion of a “state of emergency” has become a “viral” phenomenon as well, and it is Western liberal democracies that are primarily responsible for spreading it. The concept of “norms” and “normality” no ...
... accordance with the law, even if for a short time only. If an Italian mayor, Russian governor or the President of the United States himself puts expediency above the law and, “for the good of the cause,” decides to go beyond the legal framework, then society should retain the right and responsibility to hold them accountable. Even if we are in the midst of an epidemiological crisis.
Ivan Timofeev:
COVID-19: Toward New Forms of Social Organisation?
Second, people like things to be understandable. Even minor restrictions on personal freedom must be as transparent, clearly defined and unambiguous as possible. Any uncertainty or ambiguity inevitably ...
... first candidates for dismissal during the inevitable cuts in production and massive bankruptcies of enterprises?
Ivan Timofeev:
COVID-19: Toward New Forms of Social Organisation?
Had we lived in another epoch, the fate of the old people would seem less significant.... ... is no serious conflict between fathers and sons over coronavirus, but there is a generational problem. Of course, in an ideal society, all generations would live in harmony with each other and the problem of choosing priorities in such a society do not ...
Preliminary results of the coronavirus test on society show the lack of instinct that is inherent in anybiological species to protect its population
The coronavirus pandemic ... ... since the peak of the pandemic is still far away, and the repercussions of the global spread of 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) have yet to be assessed. Nevertheless, some preliminary conclusions can already be made. Unfortunately, these findings ...