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FigaroVox week - Globalization has the flu

2020-02-28T19:00:20.708Z


The coronavirus epidemic has put free trade on the dock. Find every Saturday the selection of FigaroVox: deciphering, points of view and controversies.


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The purses are unscrewing, pharmacies are out of stock, events are canceled, we only talk about that on social networks and news channels continuously: the coronavirus is everywhere and seems to trump all the other subjects of news! On FigaroVox this week, we decided not to give in to panic or sensationalism, but to stop to think about the issues and the consequences of a global health crisis.

It has been a long time since the idea of ​​"happy globalization" has revealed its illusory character. But, after Trump's trade war, the coronavirus crisis may well be act 2 of rebalancing a global economy that is too dependent on China: "It is China's almost total grip on the production of drugs from Western countries that is displayed, " recalls economist Nicolas Goetzmann. For our columnist Ivan Rioufol, the bacillus Covid-19 has become the revealer of the dangers of

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