Who said new world order

The more than countries in the world and more than six billion people should not and cannot be put under the control of one country or group, she said, emphasizing that multi-polarization has become an irreversible historical trend after the end of the Cold War. A country's affairs should be handled by its own people and international issues should be resolved through negotiations, she said, adding that the United Nations, the organization that has the largest number of member nations and that is most representative, should play a dominant role in international affairs and that this is common sense in the international community.

The common wish is for the establishment of a just and reasonable new political and economic order in the world, she said, one that must first help create a long-term peaceful environment for the development of all countries in the world. Often it was a hope for more peaceful times ahead, but often it was used by various politicians to recognise that longstanding power structures had changed — such as the waning influence and eventual break-up of the Soviet Union following the Cold War.

But more recently the term has been jumped on by conspiracy theorists who have said it actually refers to a secret elite that want to impose global rule without anyone noticing until it's all too late.

However, not everyone seems to have been convinced Dr Chant is actually part of said evil plot. Conspiracy is just conspiracy," said one reply on Laurence Fox's Twitter post. Further fuelling the conspiracy theories, however, is the fact it's not the first time "new world order" has cropped up at NSW covid press conference.

But if Mr Hazzard and Dr Chant were indeed part of a project to impose global totalitarian rule against the wishes of Australians, it would be sloppy of them to keep mentioning its existence on live TV directed at the very people they hope to secretly subjugate.

While theories about a new world order may be overblown, the continuing restrictions in Australia are being noted overseas. Much of Europe and North America have now dialled back restrictions following high vaccination rates - in some cases even with rising case numbers and some deaths. Last week, Britain's The Times newspaper slammed Australia across its front page as being a "Covid prison". It snuck in with an American flight crew," The Times article stated. Many are already claiming that the east has won this war of competing narratives.

People are less rebellious and more obedient than in Europe. They trust the state more. Daily life is much more organised. Above all, to confront the virus Asians are strongly committed to digital surveillance.

The epidemics in Asia are fought not only by virologists and epidemiologists, but also computer scientists and big data specialists. China will display the superiority of its system even more proudly. There is little liberty in being forced to spend spring shut in your own flat. The kind of undeclared cold war that had been brewing for some time shows its true face under the harsh light of Covid The Harvard international relations theorist Stephen Walt thinks China may succeed.

South Korea and Singapore have shown the best response and China has managed well in the aftermath of its initial mistakes. Indeed, the countries that responded early and successfully, such as Korea and Taiwan, have been democracies — not those run by populist or authoritarian leaders. South Korea is in fact selling itself as the democratic power, in contrast to China, that has best handled the crisis.

Its national press is full of articles on how Germany is following the South Korean model of mass testing. But South Korea, an export-oriented economy, also faces long-term difficulties if the pandemic forces the west, as Prof Joseph Stiglitz predicts, into a total reassessment of the global supply chain. He argues the pandemic has revealed the drawbacks of concentrating production of medical supplies. As a result, just-in-time imports will go down and production of domestically sourced goods will go up.

South Korea may gain kudos, but lose markets. Of course, health is not part of its competency, but it is not without means or responsibility. In times of scarcity it emerged every person was for themself, and Italy felt most left to itself.

But the dispute has widened into an ugly battle between north and south Europe over the isssuance of common debt, or the conditions that could be set for any credit issued by the eurozone bailout fund.

The Dutch and Germans suspect Italy is using the crisis in Lombardy to rebrand the rejected concept of eurobonds in which the north finances the debts of the feckless south. If the EU fails, it could fall apart, he has warned.

Matteo Salvini is waiting for this type of action from the Netherlands and Germany so that he can say: you see, we have no use for the European Union. Conte has become the single most popular leader in the history of the Italian republic.

Individual German politicians, such as Marian Wendt, have also undone some of the damage by organising for a group of Italians to be flown from Bergamo to Cologne for treatment. If you have been affected or have any information, we'd like to hear from you.