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Pandemic Historian: Coronavirus ‘a Disease of Globalization'
In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, Yale University’s Frank Snowden ‐ a historian who most recently in 2006 published a book about Italy’s eradication of malaria ‐ details how the coronavirus pandemic is threatening the globalist worldview of free movement of people and free trade. The interview finds the Journal’s Jason Willick seemingly admits the coronavirus is tainting globalism and pushing Americans and the peoples of Europe toward nationhood: Yet while the [bubonic] plague saw power move up from villages and city-states to national capitals, the coronavirus is encouraging a devolution of authority from supranational units to the nation-state. This is most obvious in the European Union, where member states are setting their own responses. Open borders within the EU have been closed, and some countries have restricted export of medical supplies. The virus has heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, as Beijing tries to protect its image and Americans worry about access to medical supply chains. [Emphasis added] Snowden told the Journal the coronavirus is a direct result of the globalization of the American economy after nearly four decades of free trade policy initiatives: Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-30 |
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