by globalpro | Apr 17, 2020 | Finance
The long read: The crisis has brought the economy to a near halt, and left millions of people out of work. But thanks to intervention on an unprecedented scale, a full-scale meltdown has been averted for nowIn the third week of March, while most of our minds were...
by globalpro | Apr 13, 2020 | Finance
Beijing could either take control of other countries assets or forgive debt to boost its soft power, experts say, as economic fallout widensAs the coronavirus pandemic causes global economic devastation, China could take control of debt-struck nations assets at an...
by globalpro | Apr 11, 2020 | Travel
This pandemic is a creature of capitalist globalisation, not any single country. Chinese culture is just a convenient scapegoat, says historian Andrew LiuFor politicians in the US and western Europe seeking to distract from their own disastrous mismanagement of the...
by globalpro | Apr 10, 2020 | Business
Its most likely Covid-19 came from bats, researchers state. Did it then spread out to people and pangolins? In the general public mind, the origin story of coronavirus appears well repaired: in late 2019 somebody at the now world-famous Huanan seafood market in Wuhan...
by globalpro | Apr 4, 2020 | Business
Fears of shortages are driving many countries to take increasingly devious measures to secure masks and testsUS buyers waving wads of cash managed to wrest control of a consignment of masks as it was about to be dispatched from China to one of the worst-hit...
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