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India expects to begin vaccinating people against Covid-19 in January, Indian health officials told the BBC. Something for Indians to cheer as we enter the holiday season. And gloat too: the BBC reports that Pakistan is too poor to afford vaccine doses. It hasn’t secured any dosages yet. It also doesn’t have as many friends... 

A mutated strain of the C19 virus which is reported to be much more infectious than the original strain has first been reported in Britain and has now also been reported in South Africa, Denmark, Belgium, Australia and Hongkong etc. Many countries have alreadly shut their borders to flights from Britain. I wonder if Singapore... 

FTAs are actually investor rights agreements, rather than free trade agreements. Investors pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into a foreign country want a guarantee that their investments will be protected by the government. As to freeing up trade, tariffs between major trading nations are already very low or non-existent....