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Change in the pandemic age

The era of globalisation was marked by an assumption of continual convergence

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Rathin Roy
Covid-19 has changed the world as we collectively know it. I discern five important ways this has happened. 

Asian exceptionalism

The big economic story of the past 50 years was the rise of Asia. First, Japan then, inexorably, Taiwan, Korea, and China. The narrative of this rise was built around the futility of political struggle and resistance. Benevolent authoritarian Asian states were seen as efficient and transformational. The great books describing the rise of Asia saw this as the result of Confucian values, discipline and the high effectiveness of collective action. Initially, the success of Asian efforts to address the pandemic seemed
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