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Covid-19 as metaphor for China’s economic development conundrum
The Covid-19 epidemic is both a public health emergency,
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Coronavirus Highlights Xi’s Vulnerability
While the virus is first a public health, then an economic issue, it also has important implications for President Xi Jinping's r Read more →
Robert Tombs gets it all wrong in the FT
A critique of our eminent historian, Robert Tomb's, FT op ed defence of Brexit Read more →
China’s economy was supposed to get a boost this year. The coronavirus makes that unlikely
The short term effects could be significant, but longer terms, the political effects will trump the economic Read more →
The politics of the Wuhan coronavirus
The health authorities have responded better than they did with SARS, but the government may have learned fewer lessons Read more →