-Jintumani Barman |
Today, common question among the people is when will this pandemic come to the end? Everyone is thinking when will they get back the normal world they experienced before the pandemic. Answer is, No. Yes, we will not get back the exact world we experienced before the pandemic, the world is going to face social, economic, and Geopolitical changes throughout the new trends in all the fields, which are already developing during the worldwide lockdown. Question is what will be the new world we will face in coming 3 months,1 year or 2 years. New trends are already in their way to reshape the world.
It is expected that partial lockdown will be continued until the availability of vaccines worldwide. Sufferings from this pandemic will not be wasted. After each worldwide crisis the world was reshaped; be it the two World wars, Economic crisis of 2008 or whatever, the new trends were followed for a better world. Being the frontline health organization WHO has failed to lead the world from frontline to prevent the COVID-19. (This weak status of of WHO to fight against those virus is whether because of political-economical influence on WHO or for other reason is also a question right now as the organization’s performance is not enough today to keep faith of the world.)
Basic practices coming up these days during the pandemic is social distancing. People aftermath the pandemic also willingly or will be forced to avoid unnecessary travelling, unnecessary gathering, i.e. mass involvement. This isolation mode of humankind will lead to develop many designed interfaces encouraging contactless activities. Already during lockdown period successful experiments of work from home, teleconferencing, and videoconferencing are going on. Even in medical sector too , teleconsulting mode are applied. In countries like UK, USA doctors are consulting patients over phone .
This pandemic is definitely going to influence geopolitical scenario. The world witnessed the frontline leadership of aggressive USA in every matter. But in this pandemic USA is giving up in front of the world from this viewpoint. It is seen during the pandemic that richest country like USA even don’t have the enough storage of paracetamol, hydroxychloroquine, etc. to deal with a virus for a month too,(Donald trump requesting India for supply of hydroxychloroquine); though they are spending huge amount of money on military activities to dominate other weak countries to bring out their natural resources. It is shameful for the USA that the countries whom they use to threat and dominate everyday are doing well to deal with the pandemic which is much better than the aggressive and so called world leader USA. China’s Belt and Road project or One Belt One Road (OBOR) is coming up connecting Eurasia and Africa by both roads and maritime. It is established that today’s colonialism is the new open market democratic trade colonialism. Success and failure of the respective leaders of all the nations will definitely influence the voting behaviour of the people. Also the world observing the role of superpowers of the world ,and this observation result will play the key role in defining the new world leader aftermath the pandemic for sure. From the last few decades war design has been shifting from weapon based war to trade and technology war. Even no powerful countries like USA, China, Japan, Russia are willing and ready to join weapon based war today. Today figure of weapons of any country is just for show off cum to show their powerful existence only . Trade and technology war is on the peak level since decades and Chinese president Xi Jinping’s OBOR project is one of the various dimensions of the trade war. This project will enable china to cover maximum part of the world quickly to activate the supply chain . In this new designed war only china is playing well confronting USA . It is clear that after the pandemic China will be supplying everything to the rest of the World . Thus china’s democratic trade colonialism will spread worldwide. Many countries will have to bring change in their foreign policies in order to sustain in global scenario joining hands with China pole.
We see that almost all the Asian countries are grouped well with Chinese superpower from both trade and political context ,except India’s political conflict with China because of India’s diplomatic relation with USA. While Asia is dealing well with the pandemic compared to European and American countries which are considered to be influencer nations. China has almost overcome the COVID-19, India is doing well , countries like Japan, Singapore are dealing with the virus very well learning from their experience with SARS earlier. There is a possibility that Asian countries group can lead the world aftermath the pandemic through the concept of Asian cooperation and development reminding Asia’s rise after the Economic crisis of 2008.
A new digital world will rise. Social distancing will lead to development of many Apps used as interfaces. Digital infrastructure will be strengthen worldwide. E-commerce sector will grow with surprising rate. Already e-commerce and live streaming are rising quickly, this pandemic is going to give a strong move to the e-commerce sector. Shopstreaming will be the new normal. Recently. Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio’s agreement with Facebook selling about 9% share of Reliance Jio to Facebook for developing an E-commerce platform for micro, small businessmen of India is also a post COVID-19 planning. We will be surprised seeing how quickly we have accepted digital technology culture . Trends of digital events, digital activities will increase. Cultural presentation on digital platform will increase rapidly.
Education sector is going to face a digital transformation . Online learning mode is already going on during the lockdown period though it can not cover all the learners of developing and under develop countries. Earlier students approached the teachers, now teachers, coaching centres are approaching students . If the society and Edupreneurs finds it fruitful the online teaching method in large scale in this chance of pandemic then surely they will propagate it in coming days, also may be this online teaching-learning method will have impact on the education policy of the countries in coming days. Demand of package based education through online mode will increase and thus it will forward one step to establish education as commodity.
Use of artificial intelligence will increase in all the fields specially in medical fields as there is no risks of attack on robots by the viruses. Starting from e-commerce to manufacturing to entertainment use of artificial intelligence in large scale will be surprising. Medical field will have to witness a huge change. Telemedicine will be the new trend in coming days.
COVID-19 pandemic will lead the World to new evolution. Yes, china will be the new world leader confronting USA-Donald Trump not only in trade ,also in Geopolitical scenario. China’s democratic trade colonialism will spread faster aftermath the pandemic. Starting from rising of China to challenges of re-establishment of USA before Donald Trump, from new digital era to crying of foodless people to rise of capitalist, we can say here at the end- New world is already here.