Viewpoint by Vijay Prashad* This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. KOLKATA, India (IDN) – On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State Department instructing officials how they […]
China Abandons the Strategy of Persuasion and Compromise
Viewpoint by Vijay Gokhale This article by a former Foreign Secretary of India and a former Ambassador to China first appeared on The Hindu on 20 March 2020. It is republished because of an insider’s view of the changing nature of China’s diplomacy characterised by unilateralism and a one-size-fits-all approach. “China, post-COVID-19, will be operating […]
NPT’s 50th Anniversary Encourages 17 Signatories To Remind Five Nuclear-Weapons States of Their Commitments
By UN Bureau NEW YORK (IDN) – The upcoming 2020 Review Conference of a landmark international treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, presents “a timely opportunity for the States Parties to undertake a comprehensive review and assessment” of its current status, says the Joint Communiqué issued on […]
COVID Crisis Has Shone A Spotlight on Long-Festering Inequality
The Future Is Wide Open Viewpoint by Nathan Gardels, The World Post The author is WorldPost co-founder and editor in chief. This article appeared first on THEWORLDPOST* on 23 May 2020 and is being republished in view of its forward-looking approach. BERLIN (IDN) – The first real-time global pandemic has so broken the inertia of […]
COVID-19: Strong Global Partnerships Key To Bolstering Africa’s Response
Viewpoint by Bience Gawanas The author is UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa, OSAA. The following is the text of the statement by Ms. Gawanas from the OSAA website*. NEW YORK (IDN) – If there ever was a time for full-scale global solidarity and cooperation to fight for health rights that time is now […]
COVID-19 Revives Racism Against Asian-Australians and Threatens Relations with China
Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) – Australia is entering what observers here say could be a deep recession, the first in almost 30 years. It was the rise of China that helped this sparsely populated vast continent to avoid a recession for the past three decades, the most extended period of economic growth in […]
Racial Prejudice in Quest of Cure for COVID-19 Pandemic?
Madagascar President Proposes Use of Herbal Tea Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview magazine based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) – In the fight against COVID-19, the war between biology and economics has just expanded to the nationalist front, spilling over with the ferociousness of a zero-sum game. […]
COVID-19 Pandemic Provides Opportunity to Revive the Oceans
Sustainable Actions Will Stimulate Fisheries and Tourism Viewpoint by Dr Palitha Kohona The author is Former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, Former Chair of the UNGA Sixth Committee and the Former Co-Chair of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on BBNJ. COLOMBO (IDN) – The well-being of oceans in the Asia-Pacific region […]
U.S. Attacks on China Threaten World Peace
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) – The world is supposed to be pulling together to defeat the Coronavirus and to some extent it is. Earlier on Russia sent special equipment to the U.S. and recently the U.S. has sent some to Russia. China has aided Italy and Africa with doctors and equipment. Tiny […]
COVID-19: A Desperate Need for a Green New Deal
Viewpoint by Peter Eriksson Following is the text of Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation Mr Peter Eriksson’s address to the live-streamed session on Climate Change: the Other Crisis, at the 2020 Stockholm Forum organized by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). STOCKHOLM (IDN) – The free world and open society, as we know […]