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Roving Periscope: China battles homegrown enemy—Covid-19—again

November 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In October, when President Xi Jinping directed the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to be war-ready, he may not have expected China would have to, first, battle a homegrown enemy: Covid-19. On Thursday, Beijing and Shanghai shut down, and Zhengzhou locked down, amid an unprecedented outbreak of pandemic infections. According to […]

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Apple’s woes: Foxconn offers staff USD 1,400 to quit jobs!

November 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After Wednesday’s unprecedented violence showing the shape of things to come, the Foxconn Technology Group has taken an extraordinary step to encourage the employees to leave the world’s largest iPhone factory at Zhengzhou in China: it is offering a ‘severance incentive’ of 10,000 yuan (USD 1,400) to those quitting their […]

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No pay, Zero Covid: China’s frustrated Apple staff violently clashes with police

November 23, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the fresh outbreak of the pandemic infections, the Chinese government’s brutal Zero Covid strategy has turned into a force multiplier for millions of people to vent their frustration over continued hardships, which manifested when hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.’s main iPhone-making plant violently clashed with security personnel on Wednesday. Tensions […]

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Covid-19: China reimposes curbs, reports 3 deaths, 28k-plus infections in a day

November 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Despite a brutal Zero Covid policy and widespread lockdowns confining millions behind doors to stamp out the bug, China reported the first three deaths in Beijing in the last six months and over 28,000 infections on Tuesday across the country, underlining its failure to eradicate the pandemic from the communist […]

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Ukraine: “It’s the beginning of the war’s end,” says President Zelensky

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although Russia has only tactically retreated a part of its armed forces from Kherson it occupied months ago, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a surprise visit to the ‘liberated’ area, on Monday exuded confidence that it’s the “beginning of the end of the war.” According to reports, Russia pulled back […]

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Covid-19: Brutal lockdowns trigger rare protests in China’s Guangzhou City

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: From angry and widespread protests—accompanied by loud slogans like “Let it Rot”, to “Lie Down”—the Chinese people’s frustrations over the brutal implementation of the Zero Covid policy to confine them behind doors, found a vent in violence in Guangzhou City where hundreds of people clashed with police as they marched […]

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Population Bomb: As the world now has 8 bn people, India to replace China in 2023

November 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It is worrying that Earth now has 8 billion mouths of Homo sapiens to feed when the global climate is collapsing, the world is worried over international conflicts with new war theatres emerging, and the planet is facing a global recession in 2023, with food, fuel, and financing crises looming […]

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Price rise: India’s WPI inflation the lowest in 19 months, eases from 10.7% in Sept to 8.39% in Oct

November 14, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While many economies worldwide are fighting soaring inflation, and recessionary trends, India’s annual Wholesale Price-based Inflation (WPI) eased from 10.7 percent in September to 8.39 percent in October to 8.39 percent year-on-year, the lowest since March 2021, because of a fall in commodity prices, the government said on Monday. “Decline […]

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Covid-19: Pandemic returns to Australia with 800 infections aboard a ship

November 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic appeared returning to Australia on Saturday with nearly 800 people testing positive on a cruise ship in Sydney, the media reported. The health officials called it a “high-risk” incident, and rated the fresh Covid-19 outbreak’s risk level at “Tier 3”, showing a high level of transmission. Australia’s […]

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Roving Periscope: Putin to skip; Biden, Xi meeting at G20 Summit in Indonesia next week

November 11, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly nine months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, amid reports he could be assassinated, President Vladimir Putin will skip the next week’s G-20 meeting in Indonesia, but the US President is all set to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told journalists on […]