There's been a lot going on in the world apart from the #Covid_19 pandemic, and some of it - while important and even related - may not be getting sufficient attention. #WhileYouWereQuarantined
A collision between Japanese and Chinese vessels in the East China Sea. #WhileYouWereQuarantined
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The U.S. Federal Reserve created "a temporary facility to provide foreign central banks with access to dollars in exchange (temporarily) for their holdings of U.S. Treasuries." #WhileYouWereQuarantined csis.org/analysis/dolla…
Japan earmarked $2.2 billion of its economic stimulus package to help its manufacturers shift production out of China. #WhileYouWereQuarantined scmp.com/news/asia/east…
Talks between Afghan and Taliban negotiators stall on the question of prisoner swaps. #WhileYouWereQuarantined wsj.com/articles/afgha…
The Libyan Civil War escalates with the UN-backed government getting an influx of arms from Turkey in its contest with faction backed by the UAE, Egypt, and Russia. #WhileYouWereQuarantined washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
Ethiopia (and parts of Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda) confront a food crisis after a dramatic increase in swarms of locusts. #WhileYouWereQuarantined fao.org/ag/locusts/en/…
South Korea holds elections for its National Assembly. The ruling Democratic Party (Minjoo) of President Moon Jae-In is expected to win. #WhileYouWereQuarantined bbc.com/news/world-asi…
A new study suggests that China's damming and management of the Upper Mekong after 2012 - for electricity production - caused severe water shortages in 2019 in the Lower Mekong (Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam). #WhileYouWereQuarantined …7-4596-a181-b1f20782dd18.filesusr.com/ugd/bae95b_0e0… 
A scientific experiment in Japan finds 1 of the 3 conditions (among neutrinos) proposed by physicist Andrew Sakharov in 1967 that were necessary for the surplus of matter (and thus the creation of the universe in the Big Bang). #WhileYouWereQuarantined nature.com/articles/s4158…
Germany, France, Italy, and Spain attempt to reach compromise with Poland, Hungary, and others on a new EU pact on migration and asylum. #WhileYouWereQuarantined politico.eu/article/4-larg…
