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I present to my readers this first article of Nan’s for 2021 with affectionate good wishes for a much better year than 2020. I well remember in my first article last year, I said the very sound of the year – twenty twenty – slipping off the tongue so easily, is propitious. How wrong I was. But silver linings are always there; they only need seeking and seeing. The candle of hope should be kept burning, difficult though it be.
The entire world was totally skewed by Covid 19. However the countries that were least affected and managed to have their New Normal very akin to the normal they were used to, were almost all headed by women. Examples I need hardly spell out as everyone knows how New Zealand recovered from the pandemic almost totally, led by PM Jacinda Arden, so also Taiwan with President Tsai Ing-wen, while of the European countries, Angela Merkel steered her nation the most competently. Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has a very hard time, sandwiched as she is