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The Virus within Globalization Kashgar

The Virus within Globalization

In the same way that “unilateralism” is a code word for American action apart from international institutions or against their good opinion, the word “globalization” has, for the last two decades, mostly functioned as a code word for the rise of China and its integration into global markets and international…
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April 9, 2020
How to embrace slow living Dalai Lama

How to embrace slow living

COVID-19 has forced us to slow down, restrict our movements, and turn our attention inwards. That’s a major lifestyle change for many of us. The slow-living movement reminds us to be mindful of what’s around us. It’s about cultivating simple pleasures and using our resources wisely, skills that are suddenly…
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April 8, 2020
UK’s Boris Johnson ‘improving,’ has COVID-19, remains in intensive care Boris Johnson

UK’s Boris Johnson ‘improving,’ has COVID-19, remains in intensive care

Boris Johnson. REUTERS/Toby Melville Boris Johnson’s condition is improving after two nights on oxygen support in intensive care, and the British Prime Minister can now sit up in bed and talk with hospital staff, said the UK's finance minister Rishi Sunak Wednesday. The 55-year-old British leader has not been put…
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April 8, 2020
Brazil turns to local industry to build ventilators as China supplies fail Brasilia

Brazil turns to local industry to build ventilators as China supplies fail

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s health minister said on Wednesday that the country’s attempts to purchase thousands of ventilators from China to fight the coronavirus epidemic fell through and the government is now looking to Brazilian companies to build the devices. Brazil's Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta attends a news…
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April 8, 2020