Belt and Road and ‘Bribes’: China Paid Off Home Country of WHO Boss, Cotton Says
Sen. Tom Cotton said today communist China paid “bribes” to Ethiopia when World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom was a cabinet minister there. In 2017, the WHO spoke of a... Read more
The Economic Crisis Will Expose a Decade’s Worth of Corporate Fraud
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, r... Read more
Pakistan Army Making Most of Chinese Coronavirus Crises
In a stinging rebuke to Pakistan yet, the Indian Army Chief Gen M M Naravane said India is battling the coronavirus pandemic and helping other countries by exporting medical supplies, while... Read more
Rolls-Royce Launches Alliance of Data Analytics Companies to Kickstart Businessduring Coronavirus Downturn
Global auto major Rolls-Royce took a lead and initiated an alliance with leading data analytics companies to develop innovative ways to support governments and kick-start business through th... Read more
China’s Global Logistics Chain Makes Strides, But Projecting Military Power Still a Struggle
China’s armed forces will continue their efforts to project military power outside the country’s region through 2030, according to a new analysis of its logistics capabilities. China has mad... Read more
Tens of Thousands of Chinese PPE Kits Fail India Safety Test
India continues to see a shortfall in the availability of personal protection equipment (PPE) for healthcare even as the government significantly ramps up domestic production and some kits f... Read more
People will gladly resume some old habits when coronavirus restrictions are eased, but some of the new ones may stick. The latest part of our series on lessons learned from the pandemic look... Read more
Theodore Roosevelt: US Navy’s Watershed moment
In every calamity there are those momentous incidents that stand out to write their own histories amid the clutter of event logs. The story of the captain of the US Navy aircraft carrier The... Read more
How Kerala Managed To Flatten The Curve
Kerala has been reporting fresh cases of the novel coronavirus in single digits for the past few days, a flattening of a deadly curve by measures that included early detection, aggressive te... Read more
Ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing have prompted the US to promise to cooperate with the island for ‘years to come’ Taiwan’s exclusion from the WHO has been another source of te... Read more