The more standards-setting organizations like the ITU are captured by China, the more the rest of the world will simply ignore their rules.
Australia's Globalization Expert
Salvatore Babones Posts
If only China’s leaders could be persuaded that their trajectory is not promising, even for themselves, the world would be a much safer place.
It has become a trope of both Western and Chinese writing about China’s economic resurgence to talk about China resuming its “rightful place” at the center of the global economy.
Something is going on in the North that is, as yet, invisible to outside observers.
When the government failed to lock down the border, it was forced to down the country instead.
The China wave is receding fast, and what will remain is a smaller, more compact, less permeable country that neither welcomes the world in nor is eager to go abroad.
It would have cost Australia very little to cut off other virus hot spots as they emerged, quarantine returning residents, and suspend cruise ships. Instead, the government’s failure to secure the border after week 5 cost the country dearly indeed.
Genetic research has now revealed that most of America’s coronavirus cases originated in New York, and most of New York’s cases were imported from western Europe.