There has been a lot of western angst shown towards China this year, only a miniscule amount of which can be attributed to geopolitical threats coming from China. Leading the charge of the anti-China brigade is Australia. I commented about a month ago .
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 9:19 am
Covid19 is far from finished in the world s more
economically developed countries. And we – who live in
these countries – continue to display a restrained racism
towards large culturally different nations such as India and
China.
For example, we kept assuming that the main
Covid19 risk country was China, long after the main risks
had become Italy and Spain and then the rest of the northern
hemisphere west.
And we keep assuming that India s
recordkeeping on Covid19 is vastly inferior to that of the
west . Evidence for a substantially larger undercount of
covid cases and deaths in India is in short supply. What if
Friday, 21 May 2021, 4:27 pm
When policymakers try to fix things, they often mess up
because of the way the problem is formulated and the ways
that subsequent policies are targeted. A classic example was
the Closing
the Gaps initiative in the early 2000s.
The
problem – albeit simplified – is that some people are advantaged and others are disadvantaged . In New Zealand,
one of the groups that were (and presumably still are)
disproportionately disadvantaged are Māori. (Another such
group was, and is, Pasifika.)
One useful way of
approaching the problem is that we can say as
stylised facts:
Thirty percent of Māori are
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