EAM Jaishankar calls for fundamental rebalancing of global order amid COVID-19 pandemic

Fundamental rebalancing of global order is at heart of changes in current world politics and metrics of measuring power have evolved from being just military to finance, techlogy and even possession of medical assets, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday, October 15. Speaking at Bloomberg India Ecomic Forum 2020, diplomat-turned-minister drew attention to COVID-19 pandemic and said it was most “catastrophic” event since World War II.

"We also need to assign different weight to different players, t just US and China but ors including India. And metrics of measuring power is w very different. It's t merely military but finance, tre, connectivity, data, techlogy, and as we discovered recently it is masks and ventilators," said EAM Jaishankar.

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'Will have significant consequences' 

Talking about `turning a geopolitical crisis into an opportunity', Jaishankar said that in dition to heightened poverty, COVID-19 pandemic will also have or significant consequences. He said apart from national security and global tre, ditional stress in global system is sure to aggregate.

Speaking of pandemic induced digitalisation, External Affairs Minister said, “It is customary on such occasion to start by emphasising how much we are missing good old times, hoping for a return to real rar than virtual life. I would t do that, t because I am a contrarian but to emphasise that importance to apting to change rar than resisting it."

His remark comes as India's total tally for COVID-19 case rose to 73,07,097. Out of total, 1,11,266 have died while 63,83,441 have recovered. On October 15, Mumbai reported 2119 new cases and 46 new deaths, as Metro services resumed in financial capital after 7 months. city also saw 1970 new recoveries as cured tally soared to 2,03,467. Mumbai is w fifth-worst hit district in nation with 2,36,725 cases of which 20,922 cases are active and 9598 fatalities. 

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