Dr Wolfgang PAPE is currently free writer after recent Fellowships in Seoul and Taipei. During his service in the European Commission over 30 years, including postings as a diplomat in Tokyo, he was at HQ in Brussels in charge of the ‘Asia Strategy’ and contributed to the ‘White Paper on Governance’ of the EC President, following an EU Fellowship at the Brookings Institution in Wash.DC. His publications in English, German, Japanese and French are ranging from cultural diversity to trade issues and global governance, for which he coined the term of “Omnilateralism.”
Calculations by the London School of Economics show it clearly. If early on Wuhan could have directly informed a truly “global health organisation” and the epidemic thus been restricted to its city of origin, the world economy could probably have avoided more than 8 trillion dollars worth of damage and possibly thousands fewer lives would…
