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COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, June 04, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic Saudi Arabia poised to reverse extra production cuts as Opec+ meets Saudi Arabia is set to unwind the extra production cuts it pledged last month, increasingly confident that the grand bargain agreed by oil producers in April to reduce s....

June 04, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Covid-19; Corona Virus; WHO; Hong Kong; Chinese
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, June 03, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic U.S. Weighs Tariffs against Nations Seeking to Tax Internet Firms The Trump administration is taking the initial step to prepare tariffs against a range of trading partners unless they back off proposals to impose taxes that would fall h....

June 03, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Covid-19; Tax Internet Firms; lockdown; WTO; 6G; Coronavirus; China; Huawei
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, June 02, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic China bets on $2tn high-tech infrastructure plan to spark economy When Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang delivered his government's annual work report in Beijing recently, the $2 trillion new high-tech infrastructure initiative was hig....

June 02, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, Taliban, WHO, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, WTO, Infrastructure Initiative, Cash Payouts, Gold Trading, Brent, Kremlin, Travel Bubbles, ICAO
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, June 01, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic Protectionism Spreads Globally With the New Coronavirus Alongside growing opposition to Chinese investments, protectionism is widening. Nine of the world’s 10 largest economies have introduced new measures restricting foreign investm....

June 01, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, UNSC, GCC, RIMPAC, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Locusts, Protectionism, New Taxes, Poverty Alleviation, Dollar Convertibility, Remote Learning, Cyberattacks, Drug Patents
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 29, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic IMF says pandemic may skew economic data and cause them to be less accurate The coronavirus pandemic “has disrupted the production of many key statistics,” the International Monetary Fund said in a blog post this week. The IMF expl....

May 29, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Coronavirus, WHO, COVID-19, COVID-19 Daily Scan, IMF, Daily scan, Hong Kong, Food waste, Business Travel, Sustainable Investing, COP26, Chinese students
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 28, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic European Union Plans $2 Trillion Coronavirus Response Effort The European Union set out a $2 trillion coronavirus response plan, including a massive pooling of national financial resources that, if approved, would deepen the bloc’s e....

May 28, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, Taiwan, Singapore, Big Data, European Commission, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Huawei, Hong Kong, Arctic, Power of Siberia, Japan Tourist Industry, Gazprom, Nord Stream 2, Meng Wangzhou, Merck, Superspreaders
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 27, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Medical China Rules Out Animal Market and Lab as Coronavirus Origin Chinese scientists in recent days said they had ruled out both a laboratory and an animal market in the city of Wuhan as possible origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in their....

May 27, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, Israel, South China Sea, Afghanistan, Belt and Road Initiative, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Antibodies, Fact-Check warning, Latin America, Air Travel, Artemis Accords, French Auto Industry
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 26, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic In Coronavirus Fight, Uncertainty Emerges as the New Enemy Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer notes that the coronavirus itself, of course, remains the biggest issue. “The longer it takes to fix the uncertainty about the pandem....

May 26, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Cyber attacks, Uncertainty, Taxes, Yen, Solidarity Surcharge, UK-China, Multiannual Financial Framework, Red Cross, Tracers, Masks
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 25, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic Xi stresses analysing China's economy from comprehensive, dialectical, long-term perspective- CPPCC 2020 Xi called for consolidating the fundamental role of agriculture, ensuring stability on the six fronts and security in the six areas,....

May 25, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, CPEC, COVID-19, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Covid Surcharge, Corporate bailouts, Macau, Akademik Lomonosov, Digital tax, Savings, Arctic, Xi state visit, Iran-Venezuela, Cyclone Amphan
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, May 22, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Strategic Two Sessions 2020: China increases defence spending by 6.6 per cent but sets no GDP target, focuses on Hong Kong national security law Beijing has announced an increase of 6.6 per cent in its military spending, but did not set a targe....

May 22, 2020 VIF Alerts, International Relations and Diplomacy, COVID-19, COVID-19 Daily Scan, Daily scan, Face masks, National People’s Congress, Locusts, Remedesvir, Hong Kong, Open Skies Treaty, Economic Prosperity Network, Olympics, Euro
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