Even the analysts did not expect this: China has surprisingly presented strong growth figures in the middle of the customs dispute with the USA. In concrete terms, according to the statistics office, the second largest economy in Beijing has announced that the provisional growth was 5.4 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. While Sheng Laiyun, Vice Commission of the National Statistics Authority, speaks that the tariffs would not change the long -term positive trend, observers expect themselves China Economic growth will weaken. The effects could become particularly visible in the second annual quarter. Jens Mühling, China correspondent of the time, classifies China’s growth figures in the podcast.
The outbreak of corona pandemic is around five years. Very few have forgotten the chaotic conditions – the procurement of protective masks or the unjust distribution of vaccines. So that such a chaos does not repeat themselves, the member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) worked on a contract in the past three years. Now they have agreed. So that fatal pathogens cannot spread as possible, the contract should strengthen prevention, among other things. In May it is to be adopted at the annual meeting of the 194 WHO members.
Also in the update:
- The EU Commission wants to accelerate the asylum procedures in Europe and has proposed a common European list of safe countries of origin: Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia.
- A couple of researchers from New York want to revolutionize Parkinsal therapy – with bred nerve cells from the laboratory. Now they are growing in the brain of humans for the first time. How this works and to what extent the healing approach could promise, explains Tom Kattwinkel, editor in the health department of ZEIT ONLINE.
What else? A moose stream to come down
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Editor: Pia Rauschenberger
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