Tuesday 22 September 2020
12:00
John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
The Wake Up Call: Why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West - and how to fix it
The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where politics in the US and the UK has been consumed with inward-facing struggles, countries like South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, as well as China, have made extraordinary advances economically, technologically and politically.
John and Adrian will be explaining how we ended up in this mess and exploring the possible routes out. If Western governments respond creatively to the crisis, they will have a chance of reversing decades of decline; if they dither and delay while Asia continues to improve, the prospect of a new Eastern-dominated world order will increase.
John Micklethwait is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.
"You will read no more interesting book on the political consequences of the pandemic
than this."
Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg News; Political Editor of The Economist
John Micklethwait is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.
