Economy Archives - Anticentric

COVID in Shanghai: Ordinary people under lockdown – Part 2

August 11, 2022 Zhang Mengying

COVID lockdowns have had practical impacts on people in China for years now and even the biggest cities have not been immune to quarantines.

Hong Kong exodus grows on COVID-19 policies – Part 1

May 30, 2022 Anticentric

Hong Kong exodus grows on COVID-19 policies that are unpredictable and push people as much as rising cases. Leaving Hong Kong is not easy due to flight bans, testing and cancelled routes. Avoiding positive tests emerges as biggest challenge before joining the exodus. An exodus out of Hong Kong has grown. Spooked

‘We have to accept that not developing a vaccine is a possibility’: A philosopher in the age of pandemic

May 20, 2020 Anticentric

Mookie Tenenbaum: ‘Humans aren’t robots. You can’t tell people to stay six feet apart forever.’

COVID 19: Beijing struggles to return to normalcy

March 10, 2020 Anticentric

The outbreak of COVID-19 is rapidly slowing in China but, at least in the capital of Beijing, any kind of normalcy will take time to return. Even though some of the city’s 20-plus million residents are beginning to venture out, the streets are far less busy than they once were.

China’s pivot to America could overshadow the US’s pivot to Asia

December 5, 2016 Alfred Romann

China is improving ties with the rest of the world in what is a late start compared to other countries. Its efforts to do so are being overshadowed by an increasingly insular world outside its borders. It remains to be seen if China can pick up the baton of globalization,

Poor countries tackled poverty but deserve more

Poverty, growth and baseless anger

November 24, 2016 Alfred Romann

Poor countries tackled poverty at an impressive rate but their citizens deserve more if they are to truly match the standard of living found elsewhere. People dissatisfied in many Western countries don’t quite know how good they have it right now. Fast-growing Asian countries have eliminated poverty at an astonishing