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Peter Frankopan: Can history offer us any lessons on the coronavirus pandemic?
Stephen Sackur speaks to the historian Peter Frankopan. Has the impact of Covid-19 reinforced the notion that global power and influence is shifting to the East?
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?
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