Original title: Western media article: the birth of a new paradigm in 2021
Reference News Network reported on December 29 that Spain's "El Pais" website published an article entitled "2021: virus and crisis in the neoliberal era" on December 26. The author is Mariam Martinez bascunian. The article said that the virus has changed everything, and this is no longer the world before. The full text is excerpted as follows:
This year began with "welcoming" Biden, and then sent off Merkel with the meaning of the end of the era. These two "plate movements", together with the crazy events in the U.S. Capitol, herald the arrival of a new era and show the long-awaited new paradigm of leaving austerity behind.
Let's go back to the mob's attack on the so-called American symbol of "democracy". This is an absurd event. It fully exposes the problems of "democracy" and shocked us at the disintegration of the western concept itself. We are no longer a decisive role in world affairs. Today, we are wandering between confusion and melancholy. Because the west looks less and less like itself.
The virus changed everything.
Spanish writer Antonio mu ? oz Molina said: "this is no longer the world before." The same virus swept the world again in less than a year, leading to the closure of schools, the collapse of hospitals and trapping us at home. The EU unified border management to prevent the Omicron mutant strain, which is like a dam to block immigrants, is a kind of turning a blind eye to the huge humanitarian scars, and is so heartless. Europe has closed itself to protect itself.