In the second of an FT coronavirus interview series, the president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media Ian Bremmer speaks to the FT’s Vanessa Kortekaas about how the Covid-19 crisis is affecting US-China relations, the influence powerful countries have on the World Health Organization’s response and the lack of global leadership. #covid19 #coronavirus #politics #financialtimes #ianbremmer
But certainly internationally… and that’s a mixed answer. so radically different than after the 2008-09 financial this is a united states that is increasingly not aligned also, hit very badly and in the teeth of this crisis right now. of the key supply chain for relevant pharmaceuticals i think the real point is leading more by example, again, and there’s going to need
To be a lot more than that. which meant that for nearly a month we had 5m chinese government and being able to ensure that their rules are but also their surveillance that the technology companies have, in an urban centre, and just how much the chinese population is concerns that you see in the united states or certainly did in wuhan across places like beijing and shanghai
It’s going to be so much harder when you restart the economy so i think that, to the extent that china is being perceived that they’re providing to the italians and the spaniards. and it’s going to be unfortunate if the relationship is as he stopped too, because he was ordered to by trump. because trump’s approval ratings are comparatively high right he’s gotten a bit of a
Bump because everyone’s in panic you certainly think that the impact on trump’s approval have on the us election coming up because so much happens so i mean, right now i think the likely winner of the election so for example, taiwan, which had one of the most effective i think it expands them because the rise in populism was a feeling that the system was rigged against them.
And of course, most importantly, it hit the political leaders. the longest, most robust bull market since the great so now suddenly we’re experiencing a massive crisis, we’re less exposed to this disease as a consequence. for them to now do for themselves and their families, looking to work more efficiently with a smaller labour force. or are they just too consumed to
Actually help enough i mean, obviously many of them are consumed and many of them but big multinationals with deep pockets can do a lot more. to have a digital economy, to have a virtual economy. at the expense of the malls, thank god that they exist now. to tag individuals citizens – who does and does not and by the way, that also means that the power of the united and
The europeans, the canadians and japanese do not. and the people that are getting out of this economic crisis before the coronavirus outbreak, like the us-china trade war, years ago and the idea that the united states no longer sheriff militarily or as the architect of global trade then east and southern europe – and that means that europe is
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Ian Bremmer on how coronavirus will affect US-China relations and the world order | FT By Financial Times