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India and China To Pull Back From Disputed Border
India and China To Pull Back From Disputed Border
India and China decided to withdraw their troops from the border between them.
These countries had been disputing for the control of 3.440 km of the border between them,
this border is called the Line of Actual Control, this zone does not have a good demarcation
because of rivers, lakes and snowcaps. In June, they had the worst confrontation, the Indian
troops registered 20 death soldiers and the Chinese ones reported fatalities, but without any
dead soldier until now.
Finally, in the last weeks, the military commanders had nine talks in which they decided to
withdraw their troops of the Pangong lake.
The Myanmar MPs wrote a letter to the United Nation Human Rights in which they asked for
an investigation about the human rights violation from military forces in the protests.
Apparently, the military forces have been shooting live bullets to the anti-coup protesters.
The United Nations Human Rights envoy said that there is evidence that the military forces
shoot live bullets to them, for that reason the council requested Myanmar to permit the access
to human rights monitors.
Nevertheless, the protests continue in this country, protestants and the opposition continue
demanding a rerun of the vote and the retirement of the military forces, they are claiming for
democracy in their country.
Some weeks ago, the World Health Organization started to investigate the causes and origins
of the Covid – 19, they began in Wuhan where the virus started in 2019. Since that, around 2
million deaths have been registered in the world.
The microbiologist Dominic Dwyer told the media that they demanded for some key
information, but China just gave them a summary of that. The United States claimed to China
for that information and China hasn’t responded to it. Nevertheless, China has argued they
have been transparent.
Japan's economy shrinks 4.8% in 2020 due to Covid
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56066065
February 14 2021
Japan’s economy has been struggling as many countries around the world thanks to the Covid-
19 pandemic. Despite the second largest economy beat expectations in the last quarter of
2020 and even though there was a slowly growth in the rest of the year, the Japanese slump
was curbed. Experts mentioned that there are strong possibilities to experience a repeating
cycle of coronavirus infections which will affect the recovery of Japanese economy.
Trade between China and the EU has grown since last year, one of the reasons is the fact to
face the global issue and the necessity of Europe to fight against ICU collapse, China
participated as a great partner to offer the enough medical equipment and technology.
Taking into account that China had a good recovery which showed that its economy increased
and therefore they positioned themselves above The United States in terms of trade results.
The main question is that what would happen with the relation between US and EU now that
Joe Biden has taken The White House.
To start, it’s important to mention that many African and Asian countries have been scenarios
of extreme poverty. In this specific case, experts mention "exclusion" and lack of
documentation are some of the main reasons for rising problems like malnutrition across the
country. Also, it can be noticed that thanks to the lockdown many schemes proposed by the
government were delayed or completely cut off.
Jerusalem sees first snow in six years
February 18 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-56113195
The capital of Israel witnessed a phenomenon which caught the attention of local and foreign
people because it was the first time in six years. Visitors took advantage of it and how it was an
unexpected situation that affected public transport and public schools, but it was a good
opportunity to capture spectacular pictures.