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Peter Frankopan: Can history offer us any lessons on the coronavirus pandemic?


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23 October 2020

25 minutes

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Stephen Sackur speaks to Peter Frankopan, historian and author of the bestselling book The Silk Roads. There’s plentiful evidence that the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted more serious damage on the US than China. Has the impact of Covid-19 reinforced the notion that global power and influence is shifting to the East?