The bungled U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic is giving China ample ammunition for anti-democratic propaganda and further eroding American leadership in the world. That’s the view of the Beijing bureau chief for The Economist magazine, who was last posted in Washington and spoke in Atlanta three years ago after President Trump’s election. Outside the […]
Top U.S. Diplomat: COVID-19 Could Devastate Venezuela, Unseat Maduro
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s claims about testing capacity and preparedness for COVID-19 are fabrications that belie how “completely unprepared” the beleaguered country is for the pandemic’s spread, a top U.S. diplomat told the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. Jimmy Story, chargé d’affaires for the U.S. State Department’s Venezuela Affairs Unit, said that if the coronavirus hits […]
The COVID-19 View From India’s Economy: ‘Acute Pain’ but Hope for Recovery
A month into the world’s largest mandatory lockdown, India so far hasn’t seen the exponential spike in COVID-19 cases that worried epidemiologists in a country with a large, dense poor population unable to practice social distancing. About two weeks behind the U.S. in terms of first reported case, the nation of 1.2 billion people is […]
Georgia’s Europe Day Celebration to Move Online; Organizers Seek Input From Potential Attendees
Often hosted as a breakfast or luncheon, an annual celebration of Georgia’s ties to the European Union is moving online amid this year’s pandemic, and the organizers are asking their constituents and members what content they’d like to see covered. The May 7 Europe Day webinar will launch at 10 a.m., organized by the Dutch, […]
Opinion: ‘Taiwan Model’ Offers Lessons for Pandemic Fight, Despite WHO Exclusion and Accusations
Editor’s note/background: Taiwan has been lobbying for more than a decade for membership in the World Health Organization, a U.N. sub-organization that admits only sovereign states. China views self-ruled Taiwan as a province and vehemently opposes its participation in international organizations. The WHO ended Taiwan’s observer status at the World Health Assembly in 2016. When […]
Sen. Loeffler Targets China’s Use of Pandemic to Stifle Speech
One of Georgia’s U.S. senators is taking issue with Chinese censorship she believes hampered the world’s preparation for the coronavirus pandemic that has now sickened nearly 2 million people and killed more than 125,000 around the world. U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler joined with four of her Republican counterparts in the Senate to urge the State Department […]
These 40-Plus International Organizations in Atlanta Need Your Support During the Pandemic
Compiling our calendar each week, we at Global Atlanta have a pretty good idea how the city’s international affairs organizations, language institutes and binational chambers have been affected by the sudden and precipitous drop in event revenue these last few weeks. Weathering the pandemic ourselves, facing canceled ads to postponed forums, we got to thinking that […]
Atlanta Posts New Resources on Covid-19, Including Multilingual Health Information
The City of Atlanta has published a slew of new information related to Wednesday’s shelter-in-place order and the broader fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, including loan assistance for businesses and health handouts published in more than 20 languages. A centerpiece of the city’s outreach is the new #ATLSTRONG website, which allows citizens to get notifications about […]
Survey: Most Dutch Firms in Southeast Harmed by Travel Ban
It wasn’t the most scientific of surveys, but the Netherlands-American Chamber of Commerce Southeast’s simple poll of member companies revealed clear results: Most Dutch firms in the region will suffer from reduced travel between Europe and the U.S. amid the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the globe. “Companies are indicating that they are being affected by the canceled […]
How to Access Consular Services Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak
Note: Last updated March 31 at 3:56 p.m. with the Israeli Consulate General’s Covid-19 Town Hall, set to take place April 2 at 3 p.m. on its Facebook page here. Consulates in Atlanta, the physical outposts of foreign governments serving their nationals living in the Southeast U.S. from Georgia, face a balancing act as state […]
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