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From: The Economist this week - Thursday Apr 16, 2020 04:45 pm
Cases of covid-19 have slowed in China, and its lockdown seems to have worked. The pandemic may be remembered as a geopolitical turning-point away from America
   
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  Our cover this week asks whether China will be the pandemic’s big geopolitical winner. Its attempt to cover up the virus was disastrous, but its lockdown seems to have worked. The number of newly reported cases of covid-19 has slowed to a trickle. Factories in China are reopening. Researchers are rushing candidate vaccines into trials. Meanwhile, the official death toll in China has been far exceeded in Britain, France, Spain, Italy and America. Some, including nervous foreign-policy watchers in the West, warn that the pandemic will be remembered not only as a human catastrophe, but also as a geopolitical turning-point away from America. Are they right?

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