Peter Frankopan - Professor of Global History, Oxford University

There is plentiful evidence that Covid-19 has inflicted more serious damage on the United States than China. Does that play into a wider narrative about an accelerating transition of global power from west to east?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Peter Frankopan, a professor of global history and author of bestselling book Silk Roads. Is the west continuing to overestimate its central importance to the past and the present?