General Le Van Cuong: The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in disaster prevention in many countries.

Scene of the thematic meeting. Photo: Quoc Son

Here with knowledge, deep understanding,Major General Le Van Cuongprovided a lot of useful current information to cadres, reporters, editors, and employees of Nghe An Newspaper. With the political perspective of an in-depth researcher of international issues and events, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Van Cuong made sharp comments and assessments on the international situation in 2020, especially the serious fluctuations affecting the economy, politics, culture, national defense and security on a global scale. Among them, two issues emerged that disrupted the world economy and politics: the Covid-19 pandemic and the 46th US Presidential election.

Associate Professor, Dr. Major General Le Van Cuong - former Director of the Institute of Strategy of the Ministry of Public Security talked with officers and reporters of Nghe An Newspaper. Photo: Quoc Son

Regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, after being discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan City (China), the Corona virus has spread to 220 countries and territories. By the end of December 2020, there were nearly 80 million cases and more than 1.7 million deaths. The United States is the country with the highest number of cases in the world with nearly 19 million cases and more than 334,000 deaths.

Wuhan Railway Station is disinfected in preparation for resuming operations.

In particular, the Corona virus is constantly changing its variants, making it very difficult to find a cure. In Asia, India is the country with the highest number of cases. In Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the largest epidemic area with nearly 700,000 cases, including more than 20,500 deaths.

Covid-19 pandemichas pushed the world to the brink of recession, exposing the weakness of many governments and countries in governing and managing the country in the context of disasters. Countries such as the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, Sweden... show confusion in responding to and handling the pandemic. In addition, assessed to be more severe than the world's Great Depression of 1933, Covid-19 also shows the shortcomings and limitations in the connection between countries; broken international institutions...

Officials and reporters of Nghe An Newspaper attended the meeting. Photo: Dao Tuan

During the talk, Major General Le Van Cuong also took the time to provide information and comments on the United States after the 46th US presidential election. He also made many predictions about international issues in 2021.