Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Frank Mouritz
Abstract
IntroductionThere is widespread agreement among scientists that one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, the plague or black death, originated in China and spread along the old silk road to Europe.[1] It demonstrated a pattern that is
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