How Covid spread fear of globalisation and threatens a new world order - short news
Free trade fatigue and strained supply chains were already fracturing the system before the virus accelerated nationalist impulses towards autarky
When Xi Jinping promised the world’s movers and shakers in January 2017 that China would champion globalisation, it looked as if the baton of global economic leadership was being picked up seamlessly by Beijing as Donald Trump prepared to usher in an era of American isolationism.
Almost five years later a new world order has..
source: The Guardian - 15.10.2021