Asian-Pacific region in contemporary challenges: COVID-19 pandemic.
Keywords:
Asia-Pacific region, foreign policy, National Security Strategy, USA, PRC, DPRK, Japan, Pandemic, COVID-19Abstract
The article explores the relationships of leading players in the Asia-Pacific region during the COVID-19 pandemic (SARS-CoV-2, 2019-nCoV, new coronavirus 2019); military-political, organizational and economic-trade issues are studied by the beginning of 2020 during the period of the global spread of the disease; evaluated of East Asian countries about pandemic containment and reviews on them in the world media.References
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