Towards the middle of the 14th century, the black plague hit Europe: about 60% of the European population disappeared. This sad episode had two fundamental consequences for the societies of the time. For one, the abrupt decimation of so many lives led to a greater availability of...
SHANGHAI – The global recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is almost certain to be far deeper and more protracted than the one that followed the 2008 global financial crisis. While many governments have pledged to bolster their economies with unprecedented monetary and f...
Throughout 2019, the single most important development impacting on Asia-Pacific regional security has been the intensifying strategic competition between China and the United States. As enunciated in its reports on National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy release...
Smart City is defined as a system of people interacting and using energies, materials, services and financing to catalyze economic development and improve the quality of life. Faced with such multidisciplinarity brought by the concept, there is concern about the efficiency of pu...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who called the novel coronavirus pandemic the greatest test since World War II, has stressed that developed countries should assist less-developed nations, and he called for an immediate, coordinated health response to suppress t...
