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View all search resultsWho's up, who's down: Farewell to Asia 2020
A 2020 Pew Research survey fielded in 14 countries including Australia, the US and several Asian and European nations revealed that attitudes toward Xi and China have now reached new lows.
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As 2021 thankfully begins, we take one last look at the year that was.
For Indonesia and all Southeast Asia, 2020 was a year that could not be over fast enough. The last week of December saw COVID-19 cases top 700,000 in Indonesia, with the Health Ministry reporting that the death toll had topped 20,500. Both numbers were the highest for all ASEAN nations.
The capital city, Jakarta, alone accounted for some 170,000 cases, with the virus now having spread to all provinces.
Elsewhere, the ongoing economic and health catastrophe has encompassed more than 1.7 million dead globally—including more than 325,000 in the United States and more than 147,000 in India.
Yet, less than 12 months since the novel coronavirus, SARS-Cov2, first identified in China would spread with deadly effect to the world, there lies hope for a better year ahead amidst unprecedented progress on vaccines and treatments. So, who was up and who was down in Asia in 2020? Here’s our annual assessment.
Worst year: Asia’s poorest
