We look at some geopolitical events this week and their impact along the Belt & Road, besides news from the Greater Bay Area and the EAEU's trade plans.
Beijing’s Quad Quandary: Why China Fears Losing Bangladesh
Beijing’s warning to Dhaka is drawn staunchly on concerns over how a “Quad plus Bangladesh” could hinder China’s South Asia policy and prove an advantage for India (and Japan) in their strategic competition.
On May 12, in a sharp rebuke to Bangladesh, Beijing’s representative to Dhaka, Li Jiming, warned Bangladesh that their bilateral ties would undergo “substantial damage” if Dhaka joins or backs the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad). Comprising India, Japan, the United States, and Australia, the Quad has quickly become a key grouping in the Indo-Pacific that promotes a shared vision of a rules-based order and seeks to manage (if not counter) Chinese belligerence. Beijing has been overtly critical of the grouping as an “exclusive clique” reminiscent of “cold war politics” being led by the United States in an attempt to contain China. The tone of Li Jiming’s remarks vis-à-vis Bangladesh’s
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BRI countries and regions embracing Chinese medicine
By GT staff reporters Published: May 17, 2021 04:53 PM
Filled capsules awaiting aluminum plastic quality testing at a production line of Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical. Photo: Courtesy of Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical
The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has gained greater momentum on going global, boosted by its unprecedented role in the pandemic prevention and control, especially throughout countries along the Belt and Road, becoming an important containing tool to slow down the spreading of the deadly virus.
China s top leadership has all along called for bigger efforts to develop TCM so that more people in the world could benefit from it. The medicine has lately been increasingly embraced by more people from the world, thanks to its effect in combating the COVID-19, SARS and other infectious diseases.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 18.4 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 9.2 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 35,538
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 848
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 79.7 doses per 100 people.
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases worsened and deaths worsened
The Chinese Communists Get American Coronavirus Aid
Supercarriers: Just 2% of SARS-CoV-2 positive people carry 90% of the virus
Lockdown Led To Positive Lifestyle Changes In Older People.
The Chinese Communists Get American Aid | Opinion Newt Gingrich and Claire Christensen On 5/14/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
Even though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is likely responsible for the coronavirus pandemic through its cover-up of COVID-19 s origins, the communist totalitarian dictatorship has turned this worldwide crisis into a great benefit for itself.
In the beginning of the pandemic, communist China as the world s dominant medical supply manufacturer hoarded and later sold critical medical products to countries crippled by the virus. China s vaccine diplomacy continues to advance its Health Silk Road as it exports hundreds of millions of copies of its vaccines abroad, while chiding Western countries for vaccine nationalism.