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Roving Periscope: No Zero Covid policy may now overwhelm China with infections!

December 9, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After three years of stringent Zero Covid policy, China’s rapid abandonment of mass testing, lockdowns, and centralized quarantine may overwhelm the world’s most populous country with fresh waves of infections, ahead of the Chinese New Lunar Year on January 22, 2023, when millions of holidaying people traditionally migrate within the […]

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Roving Periscope: As Beijing relaxes Zero Covid norms, the virus may now infect most Chinese

December 8, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Just a day after China relaxed the Zero Covid restrictions because of countrywide protests against the government’s policy, a senior health policy adviser warned that the vast majority of the country’s population may eventually contract the virus, the media reported on Thursday. The warning came ahead of the next year’s […]

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Zero Covid: China relents, eases curbs to contain mass agitation against Xi regime

December 7, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Rattled to the core because of widespread mass agitations against Zero Covid policy and the Communist regime led by President Xi Jinping, China on Wednesday eased many pandemic restrictions, allowed some people to quarantine at home rather than in centralized camps, and scrapped compulsory test requirements to enter most public […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Jack Ma in Japan, as pressure mounts on Xi Jinping to quit

November 30, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: On October 22, his immediate predecessor, Hu Jintao, 79, was unceremoniously bundled out of the quinquennial 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—with current embattled President Xi Jinping, 69, who had just got an unprecedented third term in office, nodding in the full glare of cameras! On Thursday, […]

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Defence

Ukraine: Western sanctions-hit Russia requests India to provide over 500 spare parts

November 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Severely hit because of the West and its allies’ comprehensive sanctions, the invasion of Ukraine which Russia started on February 24 this year is now biting Moscow itself, forcing it to request New Delhi to deliver spare parts for hundreds of products urgently. According to the reports on Tuesday, Russia’s […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: China tries to douse nationwide fires of unrest, woo investors back

November 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Worried over the security forces’ apparent reluctance to crush the widespread protests across the country—the Sri Lankan police officers joined protesters six months ago!—China is attempting to douse the countrywide protests against mounting multiple crises by adopting a combination of soft measures like subtly censoring social media and quietly easing […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: China trembles as the pandemic cocks a snook at Zero-Covid policy

November 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As widespread protests against China’s brutal Zero-Covid policy multiplied across the country, where nearly 100 towns and cities are under lockdowns over the fresh outbreak of the infections, panicked investors readied for a dip as markets opened in Asia on Monday to grim reports of growing unrest in the world’s […]

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Business

Global slowdown: S&P hopeful, but cuts India’s growth forecast in FY23 to 7%

November 28, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: With shadows of global slowdown advancing across the planet like an eclipse, S&P Global Ratings on Monday cut the forecast for India’s economic growth in 2022-23 from 7.3 percent earlier to 7 percent now, but said the domestic demand-led economy, now the fifth largest in the world, will be less impacted […]

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Business

Covid-19: Over 20,000 Apple employees quit China’s Foxconn factory

November 25, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Of the 200,000-odd employees at the world’s largest Apple factory in China, nearly 20,000 have left their job in the wake of a fresh outbreak of Covid-19 and issues related to payment arrears, the media reported on Friday. The plant recently witnessed hundreds of employees suddenly fleeing the premises, by […]

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Business

Energy terror: Russia weaponizes winter, begins to freeze defiant Ukraine

November 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine entered the ninth month on Thursday, it has now weaponized bitter winter to freeze its war-torn neighbor, many of whose areas plunged into darkness amid water, food, and fuel shortages. Now, Russia is likely to tighten the screws on Europe as well. Moscow […]

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