One Road, Many Dreams: China’s Bold Plan to Remake the Global Economy (London, Bloomsbury, 2019).
The economic fallout of the pandemic has been global, but not equal. If the often-necessary lockdowns have uniformly resulted in economic damage, it seems clear that the longer-term impacts on national economies will be determined by a host of factors: success or failure in containing the virus and preventing subsequent “waves”, quantity and quality of stimulus spending, and speed in vaccinating the population. Enduring changes to our working and living habits may also effect, for better or worse, any given country’s terms of trade.