Today we take a special look at the Covid-19 pandemic. While we are rightfully tracking case numbers globally, practising social distancing and concerned about the lockdowns that are going on in our respective parts of the world, there has been relatively little produced about the medium and longer-term geopolitical and economic impacts of the outbreak. What should we expect over the coming weeks and months?

Today, start to ask some of those longer term questions with Daniel Wagner, who has been a guest on the podcast several times. This episode was recorded on Sunday March 22, 2020 and we tackle, among other things:

• The origins of the pandemic;
• China's initial failure to control it and later success in doing so;
• Failures in Western countries to manage the outbreak;
• What to expect over the coming months.

Show notes:

Daniel on why America's CEOs, Mayors and Governors need to step up on Covid-19

Daniel on why the USA should relax sanctions on Iran during Covid-19

Lloyd's City Risk Index

Daniel's latest book - The America-China Divide: The Race to Control the World in Amazon and in Amazon's UK site

Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/countryriskmgmt

Daniel's company, Country Risk Solutions: http://countryrisksolutions.com/

Daniel's other recent books:

China Vision on Amazon's US site

China Vision on Amazon's UK site

AI Supremacy

Virtual Terror

Ep. 91 with Daniel and Keith Furst Ep 124, Ep 119 Ep 102 Ep 98 Ep 69, Ep 57, Ep 17 and Ep 10 with Daniel Wagner

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