Shona Loong, The Diplomat
Paul Ames, Politico EU
Despite an elderly population and underfunded health system, the country has managed better than most to limit the damage caused by the virus.
Green & Medeiros, FA
Few Countries Are Buying the Model or the Message From Beijing
Alberto Amato, Worldcrunch
BUENOS AIRES — When tragedy strikes, as it has with the COVID-19 pandemic, the vultures are always quick to descend. These scavengers come to feed off a society that is ailing, threatened or defenseless. They are a minority, for sure, but there are still far too many.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
A few weeks ago, I laid out a model for thinking about the coronavirus crisis. I argued that there were four structures operating: medical, economic, social and military, with the political structure attempting to coordinate all four while managing its own disorder. This is an American model, but it maps to other nations reasonably well.
Emily Schulteis, Foreign Policy
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
A microbe has overthrown our arrogance and sent global output into a tailspin
Russell Berman, Washington Times
Facing the current public health crisis, the federal government has a primary responsibility to ensure sufficient supplies — masks, ventilators, protective medical clothing — for the protection of the public, health care workers and of course members of the armed services.
Rajan Menon, TomDispatch
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) virus, which causes Covid-19, seemed to emerge from deepest history, from the Black Death of the 14th century and the “Spanish Flu” of 1918. In just months, it has infected more than 1.5 million people and claimed...
Daniel Finkelstein, Times of London
An American historian’s book on the way plagues have shaped history has never been more relevant than it is today
J. Techau, EU Obs.
Four months into the corona crisis and one month into the nerve-racking spectacle of social and economic shutdown, it becomes clear that the big geopolitical loser of the pandemic is likely going to be Europe.
James Greiff, BV
The IMF predicts this year’s economic slump will be the worst since the Great Depression. Bloomberg Opinion
George Magnus, New Statesman
Criticism of Beijing’s response to Covid-19 has exposed cracks in the Communist Party’s authority.
Kate Andrews, Spectator
Just days after the Office for Budget Responsibility announced its economic forecasts in March, the reality of Covid-19’s impact on the UK economy sunk in, and its projection was rendered completely obsolete. A month later, with a clearer picture of the toll the virus and lockdown have taken, the OBR today released its new...
David Bray, Atlantic Council
Before COVID-19, there were three trends occurring in the world that challenged the Westphalian notion of nation-states with complete sovereignty over citizens within their borders. The Westphalian ideal is the pattern of nation-states, with a rule of law defined by geographical borders, that emerged out of the Thirty Years War in Europe and replaced a patchwork quilt of overlapping medieval loyalties with more solid blocks of unitary rule under the rule of a sovereign. Читать дальше...
Lena Schipper, Economist
The tension between traditional top-down economic and social decision-making and a more individualistic, bottom-up approach has been apparent in South Korea since it democratised more than three decades ago. In the past two months, however, two things have happened that have highlighted this tension.
Cotler & Abitan, G&M
There is authoritative and compelling evidence that if President Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had intervened and reported on its coronavirus outbreak three weeks earlier, transmission of COVID-19 could have been reduced significantly around the world. One
Nicole Jao, Foreign Policy
With U.S.-China relations showing scant improvement, Taiwan may bolster its global standing.
