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How Middle-Power Democracies Can Help Renovate Global Democracy Support Source: Getty Summary:  Middle-power democracies should not tread water while waiting for the United States to address its own democratic crisis. They must help revamp global democracy support using their comparative strengths. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary Democracy is on the defensive globally. Elected governments are struggling to stand up to emboldened authoritarian rivals. The coronavirus pandemic has increased democratic backsliding. Democracies are stru...

-0:00 Fauci Warns New Virus Mutations Are a ‘Wake-Up Call’ On Friday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci warned that new virus variants, despite the global vaccine distribution, should offer a wake-up call to the continuing dangers of the pandemic. We’re all aware of the variance that we knew dominated — the U.K. B.1.1.7 , the B.1.351 in South Africa and other variants, such as the P.1. in Brazil. When these variants were first recognized, it became clear that we had to look at, in vitro, in the test tube, whether the antibodies that were induced by the vaccines that we had available would actually...

Voices from China’s COVID crisis: ‘If I survive this, what will I do?’ SECTIONS Voices from China’s COVID crisis: ‘If I survive this, what will I do?’New York Times Last Updated: Jan 23, 2021, 11:48 AM IST Share Synopsis A year after the COVID-19 lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan — the first in the world, and still one of the harshest — NYT asked six people, some of whom we spoke to at the height of the outbreak, to describe what they have been through. AFP People walk along a pedestrian street in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on January 23, 2021, one year after th...

25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped China’s Grasp The most famous doctor in China was on an urgent mission. Celebrated as the hero who helped uncover the SARS epidemic 17 years ago, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, now 84, was under orders to rush to Wuhan, a city in central China, and investigate a strange new coronavirus. His assistant photographed the doctor on the night train, eyes closed in thought, an image that would later rocket around China and burnish Dr. Zhong’s reputation as the nation’s medic riding to the rescue. China’s official history now portrays Dr. Z...

Detention of Canadians Kovrig and Spavor Reaches Two Year Mark Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Dec 10, 2020 December 10, 2020 marks both international Human Rights Day and the two year anniversary of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig’s detentions in China. The two Canadians were seized by Chinese police ten days after Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver. She is currently under house arrest in Canada while undergoing extradition proceedings to the United States on fraud charges related to Huawei’s business with Iran. It is widely believed that Spavor and Kovrig were taken as hosta...