Containers at a port in Vietnam (Illustrative photo: VNA)
Sydney (VNA) – Richard Maude, Senior
Fellow at Australia’s
Asia Society Policy Institute, has spoken highly of trade
prospects of Southeast Asian nations against the backdrop of COVID-19.
In an article, he said that global trends
in trade, foreign investment and production offer a mix of peril and
opportunity for the
Southeast Asian governments as they try to steer their
damaged economies towards recovery.
“Beset by lockdowns, disrupted supply
chains and travel restrictions, world trade volumes fell by historically steep
levels in the first half of 2020. Southeast Asia was no exception – the
Myanmar has recently approved Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the new coronavirus, the Russian Direct Investments Fund said on official twitter account for the vaccine.
Hostility between the two giants of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation has translated into disarray within the entire group, even as common threats bear down on all its members.
Ramesh Thakur is an emeritus professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University, a fellow at the Australian Institute of International Affairs, a senior research fellow with the Toda Peace Institute, and a former United Nations assistant secretary general.
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If Israel was a rational country and Bibi a serious politician, it should end all lockdowns and all antidemocratic measures due to Covid-19 right now. Why? Firstly: The entire crisis is based on a controversial and hardly scholarly PCR test, and not on a threat to the entire society. Secondly: Only a tiny fraction of Israeli society is older than 65 years, according to Wikipedia some 10,5 per cent. But it has already vaccinated over 10 percent of its population, more than one million people.