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Friday, June 21, 2024
TopicBloomberg Opinion

Topic: Bloomberg Opinion

China is facing another major disaster and the world is missing it

Climate change is bringing more frequent & intense deluges that threaten the economic heartland in China, and infrastructure defenses can’t keep up.

Big pharma rivals are joining hands to fight Covid. The unity shouldn’t end with pandemic

Ensuring worldwide supply, collaborating on vaccines, pricing for access, risk sharing & fixing a broken market are some of the pressing needs that the drugmakers should focus on

Arab states aren’t backing Trump’s Iran snapback strategy

There was never going to be any help from Iraq and Lebanon. Iran exerts decisive influence in Baghdad and Beirut through its control of powerful Shiite militias and political parties.

Twitter’s planned subscription service could work with these ideas experts suggest

From exclusive premium content and ideas to a more searchable platform, experts come up with suggestions for Twitter to build its subscription service.

World was about to close deals that could save oceans, and then Covid changed everything

The oceans are critical to any effort to slow global warming. Delay in global agreements has only made matters that much more desperate.

HCQ farce has tragic consequences as precious time studying treatments has been lost

The danger now is that if a severe flare-up in Covid infections were to strike, we would still lack clear evidence of any existing, cheap treatment.

How Putin’s Russia bungled the pandemic

From only a handful of Covid-19 cases in early March, Russia now has more than 2,90,000 of them & a rate of new infections that puts it second only to the U.S.

Eradicating Covid-19 might justify risky vaccine trials

The idea of infecting healthy subjects with Covid-19 might strike as repellent, yet many scientists and policy makers say it’s worth thinking about.

Iran’s naval stunts would be even deadlier without US sanctions

Given Iran's longstanding ambitions for dominance of Middle East, its trade revenues would have gone into military spending in absence of economic sanctions

After pandemic, Europe and China are set for a damaging diplomatic rift

Politicians in Berlin, Paris, London and Brussels are expressing concern over Beijing’s narrative on Covid-19, which hints at a deeper resentment.

On Camera

PM’s 100-day agenda may have to jettison core issues for coalition partners

Matters of defence and foreign policy are important, but the new government must address widespread discontent in the country. This begins with investing in the rural sector.

PM’s economic advisor asks if India needs a new poverty line, says multidimensional index not enough

Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.

China does a Galwan in South China Sea, Coast Guard carries spears and knives

Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.