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Angela Merkel “has done what Mr. Trump has not. She has been clear and honest about the risks with voters and swift in her response...A trained physicist, she has followed scientific advice and learned from best practice elsewhere.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/europe/coronavirus-american-exceptionalism.html?smid=tw-share
Taiwan is turning its “success in battling the coronavirus at home into a geopolitical win...The island is promoting itself as a model of democracy to try to undercut China’s own campaign to use the crisis to tout the strength of its authoritarian system.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/asia/coronavirus-china-taiwan.amp.html
New Zealand may succeed in eliminating the coronavirus https://time.com/5825390/new-zealand-coronavirus/
Germany, Taiwan and New Zealand — all multi-party democracies with high levels of public trust in their governments -- have contained the pandemic through early, scientific intervention. They are also all led by women. Read my CNN op-ed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/women-government-leaders-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html
Meanwhile, many countries led by incompetent, science-denialist men have led to catastrophic coronavirus outbreaks. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/women-government-leaders-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html
The success of women-led governments in dealing with a global pandemic is all the more noteworthy, given that women make up less than 7% of world leaders. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/women-government-leaders-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html
It is long past time for us to recognize that the world is in dire need of more women leaders and equal representation of women at all levels of government. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/women-government-leaders-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html
At the very least, the disproportionate number of women leaders succeeding in controlling this pandemic should show us that gender equality is critical to global public health and international security. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/asia/women-government-leaders-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html
Here’s my original thread from April 8, with many more examples: https://twitter.com/letahong/status/1247899934231154688?s=21 https://twitter.com/letahong/status/1247899934231154688
