Diplomatic Circles

No ‘magic’ response: diplomats discuss international lessons learned from COVID-19

'We’re living a gigantic world-wide experiment of geology, economy, and psychology, and we will only know later what happened,' says German Ambassador Sabine Sparwasser.
Ambassadors from Sweden, Japan, Germany, and Taiwan spoke about how their countries have been affected by COVID-19 at a Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy panel on May 27. Pictured from top left, Japanese Ambassador Yasuhisa Kawamura, moderator Liberal MP Michael Levitt, Swedish Ambassador Urban Ahlin, and Taiwanese Representative Winston Wen-yi Chen.
Diplomats representing Sweden, Taiwan, Germany, and Japan called for global co-operation and warned against embracing a “false security” when countries flatten their curves as among the key takeaways from their respective countries' response to the coronavirus pand...

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