Hong Kong must guard against overconfidence and parochialism – pitfalls clearly illustrated by US Covid-19 failures

More Americans have died from Covid-19 than during the entire Vietnam war, a grim milestone which coincided with Vietnam’s Liberation Day last week. For Vietnam, it is quite a different story. At the conclusion of the Resistance War Against America, as it is known in Vietnam, the country had lost, by some estimates, up to 3 million lives. Yet, 45 years later, Vietnam has managed to prevent even a single death from the coronavirus. Within days of the outbreak being confirmed in China, Vietnam…

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