New Normal

• [New] As businesses continue to settle into the new normal of a COVID-19 environment and are able to shift their focus from managing pandemic-related impacts to potential merger discussions and opportunities, tech targets have a strong potential to drive deal activity in the coming year.
• [New] As the world starts to recover in 2021 and beyond, the semiconductor industry will continue to evolve - finding its own new normal and fueling the new digital normal of other industries.
• [New] Other digital technologies will play vital roles in the new normal of APAC, driving trends such as long-term adoption of autonomous vehicles and robotics.
• [New] China will produce 4.2 MMBD of conventional and unconventional liquids in 2035, leaving 14.2 MMBD in imports.
• [New] Urban refugees in cities of the global south are often confined to informal settlements that feature improvised infrastructures at best which might pose particular risks.
• The adoption of 5G cellular-based private networking will accelerate globally and serve as a catalyst for digital transformation based on the use case and industry vertical adoption.
• DOST-PHIVOLCS reminds the public that at Alert Level 1, sudden steam-driven or phreatic explosions, volcanic earthquakes, minor ashfall and lethal accumulations or expulsions of volcanic gas can occur and threaten areas within the Taal Volcano Island.
• A sustainably implemented process management system will help to develop process changes quickly and scale them globally in no time.
• Foreign businesses with supply chains in China should stay in touch with their Chinese suppliers, prepare inventory stock, ensure product quality control, and settle payment beforehand to avoid any supply chain disruption.
• The ongoing tendency to portray migration from the Global South as an anomaly, a problem to solve or a threat to prevent ignores the fact that migration is not new.
• Cloud spending growth is expected to rebound significantly through GFY 2023, due to the new normal of remote work, thousands of expiring task orders and an increased interest in packaged enterprise IT as a service contracts.
• NASA's Perseverance rover is equipped to sniff out signs of alien life, while China's Tianwen-1 rover could find underground water.
• An increased occurrence of medicanes in the western Mediterranean Basin and in the Black Sea is projected and could be associated with a reduction of storm tracks in adjoining areas, particularly in the central Mediterranean 37.
• In 2021, Tanzanian president John Magufuli will double down on antidemocratic and counterproductive policies, suppressing domestic opponents and codifying nationalist economic policies that alienate foreign businesses.
• To avoid being alienated further, participation in ASEAN would give North Korea a chance to highlight its position, perceived threats and other areas of concern.
• A broken Australian internet would serve as a warning to other countries to keep their hands off Big Tech and let online innovation run its course.
• There's a number of processes taking place where agreements are seeking to reduce vulnerability to ISDS, making it a strange time to increase Ireland's vulnerability.
• To comprehend the analogues for the kind of warming we will likely see in the coming decades and centuries, we will need to move beyond the past 3 million years of ice ages entirely, and make drastic jumps back into the alien Earths of tens of millions of years ago.
• China's CNOOC to expand offshore gas, unconventional fuel to cut emissions China's CNOOC Ltd said it will accelerate the exploration and development of natural gas, including deepwater reserves in the South China Sea and unconventional resources onshore China, to cut carbon emissions.
• The domestic textile industry will get easy access to raw materials and exports of value added products which will make textile industry globally competitive.

Last updated: 07 March 2021