An exodus of expatriates and locals from Hong Kong is poised to intensify this year, as policymakers continue their crackdown on civil society and brush off an increasing uproar over aligning with mainland China’s “COVID Zero” strategy.
A population outflow that was triggered by protests in 2019 deepened last year to a record, as the realization sank in that Hong Kong’s strict COVID-19 policies are here to stay, and the brunt of the National Security Law imposed by Beijing continued to roil public life. The effects of the brain drain in sectors such as education, healthcare and finance are likely
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It is one of the great puzzles of the COVID-19 pandemic: Most developed economies are highly vaccinated with some of the most effective shots on offer, so why are the latest COVID-19 outbreaks more deadly in some places than in others.
Although it is clear vaccines led to a drop in fatalities during the most recent waves driven by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 compared with earlier bouts with the virus, some countries saw deaths fall to a greater degree than others, an outcome for which scientists still do not have answers.
Countries such as Denmark, Germany and the UK have seen
It’s one of the great puzzles of the pandemic. Most developed economies are now highly vaccinated with some of the most effective shots on offer, so why are the latest Covid-19 outbreaks more deadly in some places than in others? While it’s clear vaccines led to a drop in fatalities during the most recent delta variant-driven waves compared with earlier bouts with the virus,
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin defined the five “basic features” of imperialism:
(1) the concentration of production and capital developed to such a high stage that it created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of banking capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; (4) the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and (5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.