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Paper No. 6559 dated   6-April-2020

By Gurvinder Singh - Reproduced with his permission from his column "Guru Wonder" .  ( Gurvinder Singh's posts are full of his wit and widdom.  Here is one where he discusses a very seroius issue which has resulted in an international crisis.)

Viruses are a natural phenomenon and there are many viruses existing in nature. However when countries spend huge amounts of money to engineer viruses with the mala fide intent to attack life we have a big problem on our hands.

Paper No. 6555       dated  28-Mar-2020

 By A.Jathindra

China has continued to object to Coronavirus being referred to as “Wuhan Virus” or “Chinese Virus” which by all accounts originated in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also instructed to stop referring the new strain of coronavirus as Wuhan or Chinese flu. The WHO has been urging for many years not to identify flus by geography or animals (swine flu, bird flu, monkey pox). 

Paper No. 6549                             Dated 15-Mar-2020

By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan

It is not disputed that the Corona virus now officially named Covid-19 originated in Wuhan of Hubei Province China.

Official Chinese sources say that it was on December 10, 2019 that the first case was reported.  One Wei Guixien started feeling sick.  He had probably visited the local Chinese wild life market where wild Civet Cats are traded. 

Paper No. 6535 .                     Dated 24-Jan-2020

By Dr Subhash Kapila

Japan and India while adhering to diplomatic niceties may under-play or de-emphasise  the ‘China Threat’  as detrimental to Asian Security and to respective national security interests of Japan and India but undeniably the strategic reality is that it was their convergent strategic perspectives on ‘China Threat’ which strongly binds them in 2020 in Special Strategic Partnership.

Paper No. 6528 .             Dated  29-Dec-2019

By Dr Subhash Kapila