As the epidemic spreads globally, the virus has unnoticeably broken out in Southeast Asia.

Cases of COVID-19 infection confirmed in the UK have reached more than 250,000 with a death toll of more than 36,000 since the first report of two cases of infection in the country, on January 31, 2020.

The COVID-19 outbreak that has raged through the world since the start of 2020 has brought catastrophic damage to all countries.

The five Central Asian countries, as newly independent states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, have been burdened with the threefold strategic mission of nation-building, state-building, and region-building.

Affected by the epidemic, the economies of Latin American countries have seen increasing downward pressure, and the economic and social development of Latin America has taken a severe hit.

Since the global financial crisis in 2008, Europe has faced various challenges, which have severely tested the integration process.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Macron administration has taken a series of countermeasures, including closing schools, stopping all non-essential commercial activities, strictly limiting overseas exchanges, and imposing stay-at-home orders.

At the beginning of the global spread of COVID-19, Japan was regarded as having excellent epidemic prevention and control. However, with the increasing number of confirmed infections in Japan,

Ambassador Shi Mingde first briefly reviewed the global impact of COVID-19. He argued that the pandemic constituted the greatest crisis the world has ever faced since the Second World War.

The Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS) organized a New Buds Salon entitled “Rebalancing Southeast Asian History among Communities, Nations and Beyond” on December 10, 2019