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From Myanmar to Canada, people are asking: How did a superpower allow itself to be felled by a virus? And why won’t the president commit to a peaceful transition of power?
When people from around the world feel sorry for Americans, you know not only has Trump NOT made “American great again,” he has corrupted it’s political system, failed miserably to protect the health of its citizens during the pandemic, and diminished its stature in the eyes of the world.
Communications were suspended and flights disrupted as the military took power from an elected government and declared a one-year state of emergency.
"Thailand is welcoming environmental degradation with its own laws,” said Somnuck Jongmeewasin, a lecturer in environmental management at Silpakorn University International College. “There are so many loopholes and ways to escape punishment.”
The consequences are frightening.
If some types of electronic waste aren’t incinerated at a high enough temperature, dioxins, which can cause cancer and developmental problems, infiltrate the food supply. Without proper safeguarding, toxic heavy metals seep into the soil and groundwater.
Locals who fought against the deluge of trash have been attacked.
“Why don’t you in the West recycle your own waste?” said Phayao Jaroonwong, a farmer east of Bangkok, who said her crops had withered after an electronic waste factory moved in next door.
“Thailand can’t take it anymore,” she said. “We shouldn’t be the world’s dumping ground.”
- Hannah Beech and Ryn Jirenuwat, “The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs” in The New York Times (Dec. 8, 2019) (link)
PHOTO: CHIARA GOIA FOR TIME
Adrift in the South China Sea on a Boat Called ‘Wonder Boy’ Photographer Chiara Goia and TIME's Hannah Beech sailed the South China Sea
Photo: Dominic Nahr
See Inside Fukushima's Lethal Reactor
Photographer Dominic Nahr documented an exclusive tour of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and spent three years documenting life in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, the northeastern region devastated by a nuclear melt down following an earthquake and a tsunami in March 2011.
TOO FEW WORKERS, TOO FEW YOUTHS, TOO FEW WOMEN
Nature, it turns out, is better at regulating human demography than any Communist Party apparatchik. After more than three decades of misguided family planning, that should be China's lesson to the world.
At what point does contempt and indignation towards a country become concern and sympathy, because right now all I feel at the moment is the former.
Bob Daugherty—AP
Cheers
To illustrate the TIME International story "Friendly Rivals," by Hannah Beech, we published this stunning photograph of President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai toasting each other during on the first day of President Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972.
UPDATE: We just heard from Denis Paquin at the Associated Press, who said the photographer who captured this historic moment between Nixon and Zhou is Bob Daugherty. Paquin also pointed out photographer Dirck Halstead, standing on the right.
Sumit Dayal
The world is filled with millions of exiled peoples, whose plights are as obscure as they are tragic. But the exiled Tibetan community in the Indian hill station of Dharamsala, which coalesced five decades ago after Beijing exerted its control over the high plateau, is an exception. See more here.
