Welcome to the Future! This is a Global Security Studies and International Relations How-to-Guide first of all for my students to finish these last six (6) weeks of the semester strong - while making sense of it all: Learning to better understand our interdependent 21st Century Brave New World - in Real Time. Secondly, it is also a virtual space to explore the Future of Multilateral, Global Cooperation, Transnationalism and other Human Security forms of Tomorrow.
WEEK 2 - Where are we going from Here - The Many Tales of Wuhan City
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The Many Tales of Wuhan After the Pandemic: Courtesy of the China Global Television Network
A YouTube video posted April 8, 2020 by the CGTN (China Global Television Network). With a light show at midnight April 8, 2020, the Chinese government celebrated Wuhan's entering its first day post-lockdown. Wuhan, the Chinese city hardest hit by the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, started lifting outbound travel restrictions from Wednesday April 8, after almost 11 weeks of lockdown to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Russian Army to Send Coronavirus Help to Italy The Russian military will start sending medical help to Italy from Sunday to help it to battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Putin spoke to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Saturday, the Kremlin said, adding that the Russian leader had offered his support and help in the form of mobile disinfection vehicles and specialists to aid the worst hit Italian regions. Italy recorded a jump in deaths from the coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday, taking the toll in the world’s hardest-hit country to almost 5,000. The Russian Defense Ministry said that military transport planes would deliver eight mobile brigades of military medics, special disinfection vehicles and other medical equipment to Italy from Sunday. Russia and the 2020 World Picture: March 1918 - 4th All-Russian Congress of Soviets. (Wikimedia Commons)
Hungarian President Victor Orban's Power Grab to Fight the Virus.Some Fear Other Motives. (Picture Wikimedia Commons) Prime Minister Viktor Orban can now rule by decree. Doctors worry he won’t use that power to improve the country’s coronavirus response. "New restrictions on journalism that the government deems fake and harmful to the coronavirus response have made it harder to research the scale of the pandemic in Hungary. Many doctors are now reluctant to speak out publicly about specific problems, individual hospitals have been barred from releasing information, and journalists are warier of publishing it.But beneath the veil of silence, there are indications that the situation may be graver than records show. The coronavirus may have begun to spread through the Hungarian population nearly a month ago, in a process technically known as community transmission, according to a secret readout written by a foreign diplomat who had been briefed in early March by the country...
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