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From Cargo Suspension To Price Hike – India Covid Crisis Shows How Much It Actually Depends On China
Weeks ago, as India saw its daily Coronavirus cases skyrocket to more than 250,000, the country received 300,000 Rapid Antibody Test Kits from the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Those test kits, which produce results in just 15 minutes and work on blood samples rather than nasal swabs, were quickly airlifted to Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. […]
... written on May 13 2021The Cold War Has Begun – Beijing “Indefinitely” Suspends China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue
Relations between China and Australia have taken a twist for the worse when Beijing unexpectedly announced that the key economic dialogue with Canberra has been “suspended indefinitely”. The decision, made by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planner, saw the Australian dollar weakened against the U.S. dollar. The last time NDRC […]
... written on May 06 2021As predicted, the backdoor government of Muhyiddin has announced yet another half-baked lockdown – MCO 3.0. While people did not expect much from the clueless regime, they were flabbergasted at the deteriorating competency of the ministers involved. Even primary school students could do a better job than the bloated Cabinet of 72 ministers and deputy […]
... written on May 05 2021China and India are the two largest countries in terms of population size. China, the world’s most populous nation with 1.44 billion, has just slightly more people than India’s 1.39 billion. But on May 1, when most of the world celebrated International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day, both countries were facing different problems. On […]
... written on May 03 2021Ministers or politicians who think the worst is over and this year will be the end of Coronavirus pandemic are either naive or clueless about science. The worst part is when some high-ranking officials of Ministry of Health help an incompetent government to hide and manipulate data of Covid-19 cases for selfish political or personal […]
... written on Apr 30 2021Last month (March 26), China’s Ministry of Commerce officially announced that import duties between 116.2% and 218.4% will be imposed on Australian wines. The ministry concluded that domestic wine industry had been hurt by the dumping of cheap Aussie wine. To make matters worse, Beijing decided that the anti-dumping punishment will last for 5 years. […]
... written on Apr 29 2021As American colleges struggle financially due to declining enrolments during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Biden administration finally decided on Monday to ease travel restrictions on Chinese and other international students into the United States. Chinese students, whose academic programs begin on August 1, 2021 or later, can enter the U.S. before the start of their […]
... written on Apr 28 2021Even at its peak in September 2020, new cases of Coronavirus in India had never hit above 100,000. And for the next 6 months, it appeared the country had managed to flatten the curve when new cases were reduced to about 10,000 a day. In comparison, the U.S. new daily cases hit 3 times that […]
... written on Apr 26 2021When the Chinese government left planeloads of $2 million worth of Australian lobster to rot on a Shanghai tarmac last November, it was a signal that the hostility between both countries could only get worse. The shipments had experienced Customs clearance delays because the Chinese authorities were inspecting 100% of the Australian rock lobsters to […]
... written on Apr 22 2021It’s been close to 12 months since China suspended imports of beef from Australia, and it’s hard to see how the ban would be relaxed anytime soon. In fact, the damage to Aussie red meat, valued at about A$3 billion, could be permanent. The exports of Australian beef to the Chinese market was the most […]
... written on Apr 19 2021
